Volume 65. July 6, 2025 Summer is the perfect time for family get-togethers. Cooking outdoors, eating ice cream and engaging in enjoyable conversation are satisfying family bonding experiences. For the deep thinkers among us, however, there always seems to be a niggling question: Who exactly is my family? Jesus had a insightful answer. The storyContinue reading “Summertime is Family Time”
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Everyday People and the True Dharma Eye
Volume 64. June 13, 2025 Sing it with me: “Ooh, sha-sha. We got to live together!” Sly and the Family Stone enjoyed a chart-topping single (“Everyday People”) in 1969 that proclaimed a musical vision of human equality. The song’s verses mocked the futility of people hating each other for being tall, short, rich, poor, fat,Continue reading “Everyday People and the True Dharma Eye”
Connect with Spring
Volume 63. May 15, 2025 American modernist poet E. E. Cummings once asked: O sweet spontaneous Earth, how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee? How often has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty? How often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees squeezing and buffeting theeContinue reading “Connect with Spring”
Where Has All Our Humanity Gone?
Volume 62. April 12, 2025 In the 1955, folk singer Pete Seeger wrote a song that asked, Where have all the flowers gone? Long time passing. Where have all the flowers gone? Long time ago. Seventy years later, in 2025, the question has become more dire: Where has all our humanity gone? During the lastContinue reading “Where Has All Our Humanity Gone?”
The Buddha on St Patrick’s Day
Volume 61. March 17, 2025 Ever since St Patrick held up a shamrock and explained that God was a Holy Trinity — three aspects of being in one Holy Person — the Irish people have been close to the divine. Perhaps a story may illustrate. Years ago, a young man toured the major cathedrals ofContinue reading “The Buddha on St Patrick’s Day”
Valentine’s Day Blues
Volume 60. February 14, 2025 American rock duo The Everly Brothers once sang: Bye-bye love. Bye-bye happiness. Hello loneliness. I think I’m gonna cry. Bye-bye love. Bye-bye sweet caress. Hello emptiness. I feel like I could die. If you did not receive a Valentine this year, if you felt a twinge of anguish by notContinue reading “Valentine’s Day Blues”
Democratic Power Outage
Volume 59. January 18, 2025 American scholar Joseph Campbell once wrote, “Politics is the art of gaining power over men.” Elbowed out of office, Democrats are feeling pretty low these days. As Republicans gleefully assume control over the three branches of federal government (legislative, judicial, executive), and as Donald Trump gleefully resumes his three ringContinue reading “Democratic Power Outage”
The Buddha’s Holiday Gift-giving Guide
Volume 58. December 17, 2024 Celebrated diarist Anne Frank once wrote, “No one has ever become poor from giving.” With that attitude in mind, let’s run through the Buddha’s Holiday Gift-giving Guide. And what better way to begin than with a story. One day the head priest of a Zen temple in medieval Japan askedContinue reading “The Buddha’s Holiday Gift-giving Guide”
Bro World Cheers Their Once and Future King
Volume 57. November 10, 2024 Trump supporters are in hog heaven. Kinder and gentler is out. Ruder and cruder is in. Women are out. Men are in. Like James Brown, the godfather of soul, once sang, “This is a man’s world.” Ever since the dawn of the Iron Age, ever since about 3500 BCE, everContinue reading “Bro World Cheers Their Once and Future King”
Election 2024
Volume 56. October 28, 2024 Perhaps the legendary American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan was thinking of Donald Trump when he sang sardonically, “Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.” After three consecutive presidential elections, most Americans like Bob Dylan know the score on that dishonest, anti-democratic demagogue and 34-time convicted felonContinue reading “Election 2024”
The Buddha Times 