Dialogue is a humanities and spirituality magazine that, as its editors describe, "highlights the diversity of religious beliefs and the roots of all of them in this corner of the world that is Catalonia." My favorite section is the Spiritual guide of Catalonia, signed by the writer, journalist, translator and editor Anna Punsoda (and also director of the magazine for a year): a series of chronicles written after spending a couple of days in oratories, monasteries or retreat houses, which will end up being a book by Fragmenta and which will delight everyone who has read her magnificent guide to the Segarra, The hard earth, published in Pòrtic in 2024. So far, two have been published: that of the Montserrat monastery (warning that if you read it you will end with a crush with its abbess) and that of Casa Virupa, the Mediterranean Buddhist center in Llinars del Vallès. Here, Punsoda learns the Four Noble Truths enunciated by Buddha: that living involves dissatisfaction (illness, aging, loss, death); that the cause of this is desire or attachment (to pleasure, ideas, ego); that by ridding ourselves of attachment we can extinguish dissatisfaction; and that the Eightfold Path is the way to achieve it (understanding, intention, word, action, way of life, effort, mindfulness, and concentration).