A Royal Duel in the Natural World
When it comes to survival of the fittest, change is the only constant
My Spiritual Practice and the Climate Crisis: Karenna Gore
A series on grappling with environmental change
My Spiritual Practice and the Climate Crisis: Jungwon Kim
A series on grappling with environmental change
My Spiritual Practice and the Climate Crisis: Bishop Marc Andrus
A series on grappling with environmental change
My Spiritual Practice and the Climate Crisis: Ibrahim Abdul-Matin
A series on grappling with environmental change
My Spiritual Practice and the Climate Crisis: Thanissara Mary Weinberg
A series on grappling with environmental change
Pleasure, Power, and Sexual Liberation
A conversation on how we can use this cultural moment as an opportunity to liberate our collective conditioning around power, pleasure, gender, sexuality, and consent.
What Is Power?
How to move through life more powerfully
The Buddhist Teachings inside Russian Doll
How the cycle of death and rebirth plays out in the television series
The Power and Purpose of Human Intention in Buddhism
Good intentions offer the possibility of liberation in Buddhism
Female Power in the Himalayas
Goddesses, bodhisattvas, and dakinis are prominent in Hindu and Buddhist art
Buddhist Faith and Political Power
Art offers insights into this complex relationship
Waking Up to Power Is a Spiritual Practice
How meditation and activism can work together to quiet the mind in a loud, troubled world
Alien-Nation: And the Voice of Shahidul Alam
The Bangladeshi photographer and activist risks his freedom for protest
This Is Your Brain on Power
According to neuroscientist Sukhvinder Obhi, power is neither good nor bad—it's all in the way you use it
Art and Acts of Resistance in Clapping with Stones
Challenging traditional power structures through poetic, subversive artistic gestures
Breath for Guan Yin
Poetry on power
POWER OBJECT: LISA ROSS
Contemporary artists share their personal talismans both made and found

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