Dharma Life Magazine - Buddhism for Today

Dharma Life is a print magazine devoted to the meeting of Buddhism and the modern world. It is published three times a year. This online edition gives a selection of the articles available in the printed version. more

Issue 23 - Awareness: editorial

The theme of this issue is awareness. Buddhism teaches techniques for becoming more aware and these are not ways of just 'doing something' but invitations to open up to the whole range of our experience.

Free Association

Vipassana teacher Joseph Goldstein speaks about his discovery of Dzogchen and the value of drawing inspiration from a number of Buddhist traditions.

Working Models

Do we see the spiritual life as a path, or a process of surrender, of unfolding, or of emergence? Subhuti explores these four distinctive approaches to meditation.

Positively Puzzled

Bewilderment has been a lifelong experience for Norman Fischer - and has spurred his urgent search for truth.

Teaching Fish about Water

Shenpen Hookham trained in India with some of the leading Tibetan teachers of Mahamudra meditation before returning to teach in the West. She tells of the relevance of the Mahamudra path of relaxed opening to life.

Rhapsody in Grey

Awareness is a mysterious thing: Subhadassi bares all in his search for the sacred within the ordinary.

Books

For All My Walking

Free-Verse Haiku of Tanda Santoka
Translator: Burton Watson

Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud

An Epic Journey
Author: Sun Shuyun

Awesome Nightfall

The Life, Time and Poetry of Saigyo
Translator: William Lafleur

Open World

The Collected Poems 1960 - 2000
Author: Kenneth White

Daughters of Emptiness

Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns
Translator: Beata Grant