Love of All Wisdom

Photo by Evan Joshua Swigart (TheCulinaryGeek), CC-BY 2.0 licence.

Every day that I wake up in the United States I give thanks for the stupidity of Donald Trump and his administration.

I never imagined I’d say this, but I miss postmodernism.

Remember postmodernism?

My upcoming book is devoted to the theme that suffering doesn’t come primarily from bad external situations (like political ones), but from the interaction of those bad situations with our mental states of craving and resistance.

Modern mindfulness meditation is helpful in a great variety of ways.

Official portrait of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Franmarie Metzler.

Back when I was a TA at Harvard, possibly my favourite student was an evangelical Christian.

Karl Marx and John Stuart Mill have both done a great deal to shape modern political philosophy.

My friend and colleague James Shields has just started a new site called the Radical Buddhism Project, “an independent digital humanities archive and research portal dedicated to recovering, preserving, and contextualizing the historical intersections of…

Last year the Zen philosopher Seth Zuihō Segall invited me to speak to a course on seven universal virtues, on the topic of self-discipline or temperance.

The Buddha’s encounter with unwelcome facts of life.

Readers, I’m delighted to announce that my first book is officially scheduled for publication!

Stan Rogers.

When we think about the natural environment and how to treat it, we often assume by default that what we’re trying to do is return the nonhuman world to where it was before we started seriously messing with it.

Karin Meyers’s work on the “damned topics” of Buddhist philosophy is most powerful on the topic of rebirth.