Category: Advice for Difficult Times
Forum Essays: Depression
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to depression and mental illness.
Healthy Thoughts
You might think being healthy puts you in a good state of mind, but it’s the good state of mind that will keep you healthy in the long-term.
Readers’ Exchange: Illness
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to illness.
Illness: The Way Beyond Suffering
In August 1995, I was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and given just weeks to live. Over the next year I was close to death many times.
Do Good and Be Well
Too cold to work out? Sure, but you can still do your body and mind plenty of good -- while also making a real difference to others.
A Time to Find Meaning
“Even when disease cannot be cured, there is often a way to use this difficult experience to know more intimately the value and purpose of your life.”
Jon Kabat Zinn: The Prescription is Meditation
From the inner city to hospitals and prisons, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn’s meditation courses are helping thousands handle illness stress, anger and addiction.
A Year in the Whirlwind
"I am not a spiritually gifted person, but my years of practice and study gave me an understanding of the task ahead."