Between Ignorance and Enlightenment

When the Merit Times launched in Taiwan in 2001, Venerable Master Hsing Yun began writing the daily column “Between Ignorance and Enlightenment.” With each column, Master Hsing Yun considered different topics from culture, politics, and literature, as well as the common experiences of everyday life to show the possibility to learn and grow in any situation.

Now available in English, the Between Ignorance and Enlightenment series collects the very best of this groundbreaking column. Each volume captures the spontaneity and breadth that has endeared Between Ignorance and Enlightenment to readers around the world, and displays the immediacy for which the column is named: that this next moment, this next thought, may be the difference between ignorance and enlightenment.

All in a Thought

This first volume in this collection of short essays on Buddhist teachings and other topics. Adapted from the popular Newspaper column.

Categories: Between Ignorance and Enlightenment, Contemporary Writings

Seeking Happiness

This seventh volume in this collection of short essays on Buddhist teachings and other topics. Adapted from the popular Newspaper column.

Categories: Between Ignorance and Enlightenment, Contemporary Writings

Let Go, Move On

This fifth volume in this collection of short essays on Buddhist teachings and other topics. Adapted from the popular Newspaper column.

Categories: Between Ignorance and Enlightenment, Contemporary Writings

A Life of Pluses and Minuses

This fourth volume in this collection of short essays on Buddhist teachings and other topics. Adapted from the popular Newspaper column.

Categories: Between Ignorance and Enlightenment, Contemporary Writings

A Moment, A Lifetime

This third volume in this collection of short essays on Buddhist teachings and other topics. Adapted from the popular Newspaper column.

Categories: Between Ignorance and Enlightenment, Contemporary Writings

Tending Life’s Garden

This sixth volume in this collection of short essays on Buddhist teachings and other topics. Adapted from the popular Newspaper column.

Categories: Between Ignorance and Enlightenment, Contemporary Writings

Prescription for the Heart

This second volume in this collection of short essays on Buddhist teachings and other topics. Adapted from the popular Newspaper column.

Categories: Between Ignorance and Enlightenment, Contemporary Writings