About fifty meters south of ?hiradai station in the mountainous, rural area of Ha-kone (Japan) there is a small and inconspicuous temple named Rinsenji???. The temple belongs to the S?t? sect of Zen Buddhism and was established in 1559. It is not a particularly interesting or noteworthy temple except for one brief episode in its history. In May 1909 the police arrested Rinsenji’s chief priest…
The massive disruptions caused by climate change, the Covid-19 Pandemic, war, and ever-rising inequalities have presented the world with challenges across social and economic life, health and education, policy, politics, and community life. Compassion is a central Buddhist value and practice but is also essential to our survival. Defined as feeling genuine concern about the suffering of others …
This introduction explores friendliness by moving through seven main topics. The first two topics (recollection of the body and working with the hin-drances) provide the foundations and could in themselves be considered as an autonomous and complete practice. In fact, anything else will just be a deepening of what is already entailed by them. They should be fairly acces-sible, although they wil…