Traditions

The presence of an authentic advocate like a Muslim chaplain can be empowering for Muslim patients and families.

One typical but currently out of favor response (among academics at least) to doctrinal differences separating religions has been to reduce the welter of contrary doctrinal formations to an essential teaching, a kind of ‘superdoctrine,’ such as “All religions are true,” or “All religions point to the Absolute.”

We are all connected, through the air we breathe, the land we walk on, and the beauty of the earth that supports each one of us from the moment we are born until the moment we die.

In order to understand the mandala principle, we have to go way back to the beginning, to the basic split.

One of the oldest stone aged artifacts ever to have been discovered is a small statue of a heavy breasted, full-bodied woman carved out of limestone.

Let’s develop a sense of trusting the inner refuge – trusting more in this moment, trusting in the source.

Buddhist psychotherapy, which has been adopted in the last several decades, is a novel approach to the clinical practice of mental health.

Many people today who are deeply concerned about the world’s suffering inhabit a secularized worldview in which it is assumed that religious understandings of salvation or spiritual liberation are irrelevant to the material needs and ways of thinking prevalent in our time.