Greed, aversion, ignorance, dukkha: yep, all still here. What can the dharma teach us about how to live through difficult times with skillfulness and a mind that touches peace? How can we practice compassionate responsiveness to the suffering of the world without stabbing ourselves with the second arrow of suffering (or the 27th arrow)? https://devinberry.substack.com/

Greed, aversion, ignorance, dukkha: yep, all still here. What can the dharma teach us about how to live through difficult times with skillfulness and a mind that touches peace? How can we practice compassionate responsiveness to the suffering of the world without stabbing ourselves with the second arrow of suffering (or the 27th arrow)? https://devinberry.substack.com/

Alternatives to Losing Your Mind: Finding Refuge in the Present

What can spiritually engaged lives for laypeople in these times look like? Could they be... funny? Enjoyable? Authentic and meaningful? Buddhists in Babylon is a student-teacher dialogue where Insight meditation teacher Devin Berry and journalist Molly Zapp try to live in the Dharma without pretending the world isn’t on fire - or being consumed by the flames.

Off the cushion, and into the streets, classrooms, crisis zones and kitchen tables of modern life.

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What can spiritually engaged lives for laypeople in these times look like? Could they be... funny? Enjoyable? Authentic and meaningful? Buddhists in Babylon is a student-teacher dialogue where Insight meditation teacher Devin Berry and journalist Molly Zapp try to live in the Dharma without pretending the world isn’t on fire - or being consumed by the flames. Off the cushion, and into the streets, classrooms, crisis zones and kitchen tables of modern life.

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Alternatives to Losing Your Mind: Finding Refuge in the Present