Rusty Ring

"I always think friction and having annoying things around is absolutely essential for good meditation. Otherwise, you become inc...

As non-Vajrayana Western converts to Buddhism will tell you, we have a slightly awkward relationship with Tibet. Not that we have an...

"Zen is not found in the understanding, it's found in the doing of it." Gil Fronsdal (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Co...

"A watched mind never boils." Gil Fronsdal (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and a generous photographer.)

"All you single people who think you'd be happy if you were married, ask a married person. "All you married people who th...

In Meditation in the Wild: Buddhism's Origin in the Heart of Nature , Charles S. Fisher writes: "Buddhism was born in the for...

This is the mouthpiece of the Insight Meditation lineage maintained by Gil Fronsdal. (I have no idea what titles are in play or how the h...

You gotta love Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera . He's a forest monk, albeit not of the hermit lineage. In a West dominated by Zen, Vipassa...