- How Good Intentions Can Lead to Misery: Lessons from a Buddhist Sutta
A Buddhist sutta urges us all to check in with our successes and failures. I'll look at how this advice pertained to the Buddha's evil cousin Devadatta, as well as how it might pertain to contemporary cryptocurrency kingpin Sam…
- Meditations on Failure: a Buddhist Practice
I've failed. Many times. I'll look at some of those failures, and how we can work with failure in our lives. Failure can be frustrating and painful, but it can also be a help to us.
- What is Authentic Buddhism?
What is authentic Buddhism? We'll take a look at that question from the point of view of the early texts. We'll see that they present us with two different ways we might approach the question.
- History of Mahayana Buddhism: Innovation and Perfection
We'll take a quick overview of the history of Mahāyāna Buddhism, beginning with its earliest developments and how it separated from the rest of mainstream Buddhism. Then we'll look at a few of its later developments that came to define…