Working with Chronic Pain as a Path to Liberation
The author shares how she applies Buddhist teachings on suffering as a way of working with her chronic pain, and offers an exercise for dealing with physical pain.
The author shares how she applies Buddhist teachings on suffering as a way of working with her chronic pain, and offers an exercise for dealing with physical pain.
The author contemplates the death of her best friend in light of the Buddhist teachings on impermanence.
The author shares how practicing shamatha, or calm abiding meditation, and songs of realization, or dohas, help with settling the mind.

Stephanie Johnston leads a nine-week Saturday series unlocking the power of Buddhist iconography, focusing on the Wheel of Life. Classes began Feb. 20.
As her father’s dementia progresses, the author regains an appreciation of life, just as it is.

Nick Vail leads a weekly series studying an important work of Nagarjuna, which presents a subtle analysis of the Buddha’s teachings on Madhyamika, or the Middle Way. Nick teaches from Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche’s book, The Sun Of Wisdom, which illuminates Nagarjuna’s root text.
