In Zen Buddhism, wisdom has a lineage; one begins by thanking one’s teachers. Only now, thanks to a translation by Beata Grant, can early female masters be thanked. Professor of Chinese and religious ...

Do you want to sit next to a grouch who never ever thinks that things will work themselves out just fine? Or do you want to sit next to a Pollyannaish type of person who never ever thinks that ...

One of the best-known photographs of the late Steve Jobs pictures him sitting in the middle of the living room of his Los Altos house, circa 1982. There isn’t much in the room, save an audio system ...

It’s with exquisite timing that this book drops into our lives, like Zen monk and haiku poet Matsuo Basho’s frog into its ancient pond. Who among us hasn’t had our moments of anxiety these past months ...

WRITER Tom Robbins is probably best known for his irreverent novels written in the 1970s and ‘80s, tales populated with oddball characters, filled with fervent philosophical opinions and bursting at ...

When actor and activist Peter Coyote was a young man, he joined the San Francisco Mime Troupe and donned the mask of Pantalone, a character dating to Italy’s commedia dell’arte era. “When I looked in ...

People often ask me if I'm surprised at the amount of attention The Big Lebowski has received over the past few years. They usually seem to expect me to say "yes," but my answer is always "no". What ...

Several years ago, children's author and illustrator Jon J. Muth drew a picture of a big panda in a very large pair of pants. It made him laugh, but he didn't think much of it, and he put the sketch ...

Do you want to sit next to a grouch who never ever thinks that things will work themselves out just fine? Or do you want to sit next to a Pollyannaish type of person who never ever thinks that ...