The Risk of Addiction in the Transgender Community: Embracing your Identity while Coping with Addiction

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AboutAddiction.com  The transgender community faces extraordinary challenges. Struggling with the internal gender identity battle seems challenging enough, but after you’ve come to terms with your gender identity and decided to live as your authentic self, you may face discrimination, judgment, and even violence. According to the Center for American Progress, “It is estimated that between…

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Steps to the Great Perfection: Mind Training Tradition of the Dzogchen Masters

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by Jigme Lingpa, translated by Cortland Dahl The mind-training practices contained in the Dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism have never before been presented in the English language. The main text translated here, The Steps to Liberation, will be of great interest to Western practitioners, since its instructions are pithy and direct, and experiential rather than…

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Prayers of 11 Faiths

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These prayers from around the world were read by audience members during the opening ceremony of the First International Congress of the World Fellowship of Faiths in 1936. Buddhist:All praise be to the Lord, the Holy One, per-fect in wisdom. I go to the Enlightened One for refuge. I goto the Law for refuge. I go…

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Apostates Anonymous

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By Taffy Brodesser-AknerThe New York Times MagazineApril 3, 2017 On Thursdays, the nonprofit organization Footsteps hosts a drop-in group for its membership of formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews, who mostly refer to themselves as “off the derech.” “Derech” means “path” in Hebrew, and “off the derech,” or O.T.D. for short, is how their ultra-Orthodox families and friends…

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