Monthly Archives: July 2012

singing as they go
insects float down the stream
on a broken bough
naki nagara
mushi no nagaruru
ukigi kana

(Issa)

Kobayashi Issa (1763–1827), Garden Butterfly. Ink...

The family here at Shambhala Publications is deeply saddened by the loss of the incredible master, teacher, and author Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche, who passed away in Australia at 12:10 a.m...

We cannot say that the phenomenal world we are living in—the traffic jams and the pollution and the inflation—is bad and devilish. We cannot condemn the world by putting it...

Is it possible to abandon the suffering of samsara and pass beyond the suffering of samsara? If the world were created by a god, then we would be helpless. It...

In meditation, imagine that in front of you are three persons—an enemy, a friend, and a neutral person. At that time, in our minds we have (1) a sense of...