By Incarcerated People
Reflections, essays, and poems by people in prison about their Dharma practice.
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Depression and Buddha nature
A person in prison gives advice to a student with depression from his own personal…
View PostThe internal tiger: anger and fear
Having struck out in anger many times, an incarcerated person shares responding to his fear…
View PostLetting go of attachments
A chocolate cake, a chuck steak or the love of another person—can they make us…
View PostA test of my bodhisattva vows
Keeping oneself free of violence by remembering the vows and showing compassion.
View PostThe liberation of self-forgiveness
An incarcerated person shares his experience of transforming self-hatred to open up his heart for…
View PostOpening up to love
Being stuck in a selfish lifestyle centered on "me" keeps us from realizing the interdependence…
View PostInside-out practice
An incarcerated person narrates practicing inside the prison to practicing outside and compares that to…
View PostChoice and changing
A courageous look at the selfish mind and the suffering it creates in life.
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