By Olga Khazan — 2019
The ancient Eastern religion is helping Westerners with very modern mental-health problems.
Read on www.theatlantic.com
CLEAR ALL
Hiding your feelings can be freeing. But eventually you have to take off the mask.
3
La Sarmiento has been a leader of American LGBTQ and people-of-color Buddhist communities for close to a decade. I caught up with the trans, queer Filipino teacher before a silent retreat to discuss the dynamics of race and gender in a world that is typically White, cisgender and straight.
Necessity being the mother of invention, it struck me that contemplation didn’t depend on a particular practice.
n May of 2019, Rabbi Dr. Ariel Burger sat down with educator and writer Parker J. Palmer for an unscripted conversation. What emerged was a wide-ranging contemplative dialogue on suffering, healing, and joy.