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Photo (detail) by James Gimian. Used by permission. The ground of fearlessness, said Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, is renouncing hard-heartedness and allowing ourselves to be tender, sad, and fully present. You’ll find his teaching on this, “The Tender Heart of the Warrior,” inside the current, March 2011 Shambhala Sun — which features Pema Chödrön’s “Smile at [...]

Sounds like an Onion story, doesn’t it? But it isn’t. As James Ure of The Buddhist Blog writes today, Arizona has — seriously — proposed an act which would ban the evocation of karma in its court systems. According to Act SB 1026, “A court shall not use, implement, refer to or incorporate a tenet [...]