Mark Van Buren is a Buddhist author, meditation instructor, and mindful living trainer. He is the author of Your Life is Meditation and A Fool’s Guide to Actual Happiness. He lives in New Jersey. He can be found online at www.buymeacoffee.com/meditatewithmark
Mark Van Buren
Recent Articles
How Buddhism’s “Three Marks of Existence” Can Lead Us to Freedom and Change
Chan practitioner Mark Van Buren shares how the Buddhist concepts of impermanence, interdependence, and unsatisfactoriness (often rendered as "suffering") can point the way to our liberation.
A Chan Student’s Guide to Buddhism’s famed Heart Sutra
Chan practitioner Mark Van Buren shares his journey from chanting the Heart Sutra without understanding to gradually uncovering its transformative wisdom, exploring the interplay of compassion and wisdom at the heart of this profound text, and how this realization can ease our personal suffering and deepen our spiritual practice.