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An Excerpt from the earliest known Zen spiritual guide

The 3rd Zen patriarch, Seng Ts'an, wrote, 鈥淭he Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised.

Conviviality, kindness and the skill of living together in harmony

The traditional Buddhist analysis of wisdom (Skt: praj帽a) allows that there there are three interacting sources: hearing, cognitive consideration and spiritual practice. The earliest disciples of the Buddha were called the 鈥淗earers鈥 (Skt:艣r膩vaka).

Passover is our memory, not our history

In a couple of days, I will be sitting with my family at the Passover Seder, a meal wrapped in a service of remembrance, with prayers, songs, symbolic foods and the retelling of how G-d took us out of Egypt from slavery to freedom.

Kosher for my soul

Recently I started to pay more attention to how many conversations I have each day about food.

Honouring a death is to honour a life

I have been deeply moved by the outpouring of public sympathy and support in the wake of the tragic death of Westshore RCMP Const. Sarah Beckett.

Keep the Easter approach to life all year round

I鈥檓 always grateful when Easter comes, and not just because it marks the end of Lent and the beginning of the most important season of the Christian tradition. For me, Easter brings with it a much-needed call to rise and begin again.

From the trauma of loss as a refugee, to finding new meaning in life

(Adrienne Carter with colleagues at the Centre for Victims of Torture, In Jordan. The headquarters for CVT is in Minneapolis, but has branches in many different parts of the world, including Jordan.

Defying secular trends to find meaningful structure

Can we guarantee that we will live a happy, healthy, and safe life? Most people strive for this, but no one has found a universal recipe for creating it.

The Importance of a Smile

A good friend of mine had just started as minister in a congregation. The widow of the previous minister, who had been at that church for 30 years, was still attending the congregation.

Easter

How do we explain new life? We use bunnies, eggs and chicks, butterflies and other images. I like all of these. They reflect our need for images to describe things when words fail.