Have you ever had an itch-and not scratched it? In the Buddhist tradition, this points to a vast paradox: that by refraining from our urge to “scratch,” great peace and happiness is available. On Getting Unstuck, Pema Chodron introduces a valuable teaching on what in Tibetan is called shenpa. “An urge comes up, we succumb [...]

Click Here From Teachings from Pema Chodron Biography of Pema Chodron Ani Pema Chödrön was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in 1936, in New York City. She attended Miss Porter’s School in Connecticut and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. She taught as an elementary school teacher for many years in both New Mexico and [...]

Venerable Ajahn Chah (Phra Bodhiñana Thera) was born into a typical farming family in a rural village in the province of Ubon Rachathani, N.E. Thailand, on June 17, 1918. He lived the first part of his life as any other youngster in rural Thailand, and, following the custom, took ordination as a novice in the [...]

Roshi Joan Halifax is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and author. She is Founder, Abbot, and Head Teacher of Upaya Zen Center, a Buddhist monastery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has worked in the area of death and dying for over thirty years and is Director of the Project on Being with Dying. [...]

Biography of D.T. Suzuki D.T. Suzuki (18 Oct. 1870-12 July 1966), the foremost exponent of Zen Buddhism in the West, was born Teitar? Suzuki, the son of Ryojun Suzuki, a physician, and his wife, Masu (full name unknown), in what is now the city of Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. He was the youngest of [...]

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Biography of Thich Nhat Hanh Zen Master, poet, peace and human rights activist, Thich Nhat Hanh was born in central Vietnam in 1926 and joined the monkhood at the age of 16. In Saigon in the early 1960′s, he founded the School of Youth for Social Services (SYSS), a grass roots relief organization that rebuilt [...]

Geshe Sonam Rinchen was born in the Tehor region of Kham in Eastern Tibet. He began his religious studies at the age of twelve at Dhargye Monastery, the largest local monastery in his area of Kham. He pursued his studies there for the next seven years and completed the basic studies in logic. At nineteen, [...]

Biography of Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche, the spiritual director of The Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, is the reincarnation of the Sherpa Nyingma yogi Kunsang Yeshe, the Lawudo Lama. Rinpoche was born in 1946 in Thami, not far from the cave Lawudo, in the Mount Everest region of Nepal, [...]

When you meditate, don’t squeeze yourself. Just sit comfortably and let your breath energy flow naturally; be just as you are. Don’t think, “I’m a meditator”; don’t think, “I’m humble”; don’t think, “I’m an egotist.” Don’t think anything; just be. THE MEDITATION Purification of body Place your hands in whatever position is comfortable for you [...]