Jaya leads children at the Srijan School in Sarnath, India, to find out what they experience with their eyes closed: the breeze, ease,...

For the first time in 24 years of visiting India, I went for only one month: 23 Jan to 23 Feb. It was also the first time Gyan and I...

I shyly accept the cheerful company of the birds who have stayed through winter with us--the urgency of their autumn wing beat calmed,...

Jaya shares with us some of her favorite books of the year.... I am struck with gratitude as I look over the year and feel all the...

A retreatant wrote me this a while back: "What I love about Open Dharma is the way it is like India throughout history... adapting,...

Dharmaloca: Nanda's colorful May prayer flags across the front of the caravan have all turned white, while on Halloween, the pear trees...

A recent cancellation leaves the sweet, rustic cottage available from October onwards. Gemmaji and I are happy to welcome one or two...

The Israeli sangha Tovana recently asked a group of teachers, including Ajay, Jaya, Christopher, Shaila, Stephen Fulder, and others, for...

Revolution kept coming to mind and heart at The Stone House retreat in North Carolina in July. On the opening night, the I Ching (Book...

Jaya writes about May's deep rest retreat at the Moulin de Chaves, in France... Last year flood, this year drought the inner spring keeps...

One thousand white petals on the curving concrete path to the hall. The retreat at le Moulin in France last week had the texture of...

Many African-American midwives in rural southeastern US of the 20th-century were proud that they could “plow like men, and pick cotton by...