
All the time I pray to Buddha
I keep on
killing mosquitoes.”
— Kobayashi Issa
An aspiring writer fascinated by what we simply are.
Robert Thurman and Sharon Salzberg are icons of American Buddhism, and they are joyful, longtime friends. They challenge us to reframe our anger by seeing love for our enemies as an act of self-compassion. Robert Thurman: There’s a word in Buddhism called “kleshas”—or “klesa” in Pali, “kleshas” in Sanskrit—which comes from a verb root that means… Continue reading Untitled