Category: Mindfulness

Still Mind, Moving Body

Andrea Miller profiles five teachers who combine hatha yoga and Buddhist meditation. Is this the perfect mind–body practice?

Hatha Raja: Yoga’s Path to Liberation

Yoga becomes a complete spiritual path when we join the familiar postures of hatha yoga with the meditative practices of rajah yoga.

The Mind that Suffers

Recognizing suffering is the first step on the Buddhist path. By understanding suffering we can see the difference between pain and our reaction to it.

Mindfulness of Mind

Dispassionately observing what goes on in our mind is one of Buddhism’s central practices, a technique being used to work with mental health.

More Than Just This Body

Yee offers his thoughts on the power of yoga to bring us back to what’s truly important in our lives and to transform both body and mind.

Here, Now, Aware: The Power of Mindfulness

It’s the essence of the contemplative path and the key to transforming our lives. Insight Meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein describes this simple yet profound expression of our mind’s natural awareness.

This Silence is Called Great Joy: A Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh

A teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh on the truth beyond our usual truths.

Grandmother Mind

Parents must attend to the nuts and bolts of their children’s care. But grandmothers, says Susan Moon, can pay attention to the continuity of everything in the background—water, air, stories, and love.

Doing the Buddha’s Practice

Mindfulness/awareness was the meditation the Buddha practiced and taught—it was his basic prescription for human suffering.

Meeting Pain with Awareness

Does awareness suffer? How we can meet our pain with openness, strength, and clarity, and our relationship to it is transformed.

Pain Not Suffering

Two Buddhist teachers offer techniques to lessen pain’s mental suffering, look at its true nature, and learn its valuable lessons

Stumbling on Happiness

Are we just too dumb to be happy? Psychologist Daniel Gilbert reveals some of the common mental mistakes that defeat our search for happiness.

Why Can’t “I” Be Happy?

The four noble truths tell us that to be happy we must first discover the causes of our unhappiness. This is the approach of the renowned French Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, who says that genuine happiness is only possible after we understand the fundamental mistake that is the root of our suffering.