Matthew Gindin lives in Vancouver, BC and writes and lectures on world wisdom traditions, comparative theology, and holistic medicine. His writings have appeared in The Zen Site and Elephant Journal. He blogs at www.hashkata.com.
Lawrence Hart was angry and cold and ready to go home. He and the other younger Cheyenne were waiting while the elders consulted about how to close the day’s ceremonies, which Hart had found humiliating and infuriating. Hart had recently been elected as a Peace Chief among the Cheyenne. He…
How do Buddhists deal with anger? It’s a good question, and an important one. Everybody gets angry; whether it’s mild irritation or flaming rage, we experience it every day and there are few of us for whom this is not, at some point, a serious problem. By “problem” I mean…
Marcus Aurelius was a rare thing: an emperor and a philosopher. Over the course of his ruling at the head of Rome he reunited an empire divided due to the betrayal of Avidius Cassius, fended off numerous enemies such as the Goths and Sarmatians, and created the capital of Constantinople,…
This assertion was the bassnote in the symphony of Gandhi’s life. Gandhi said that he learned this from the Bhagavadgita, which says, “Yours is the action, not the result.” Gandhi repeatedly said that he would not have been able to do what he did if he had not focused on…
What could be cooler than having mentored Lewis Carrol? How about C.S. Lewis calling you his “master”? Being friends with Mark Twain and Walt Whitman? Being the major inspiration of J.R.R Tolkien? All of this is true of a little known Scottish mystic, poet and writer named George Macdonald (1824-1905)….