Category: Mindfulness in Your Life
Searching for the Heart of Compassion
Marc Ian Barasch searches our society for compassion in action, compassionate people, and ways to find the compassion inside himself.
Jon Kabat-Zinn: The Man Who Prescribes the Medicine of the Moment
Barry Boyce profiles Jon Kabat-Zinn, whose mindfulness stress reduction program has brought the benefits of meditation practice to thousands of people.
Daughter Time
The time of childhood is going to go fast. I'm doing what I can to slow it down. There's still time for me to learn some of what they see and know and feel.
Awake at Work
What is “right livelihood”? What “spiritual values” should an employer support? Can I bring my spiritual priorities and insights to work?
Forum Essays: Work
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to work and the workplace.
Searching for the Truth that Is Far Below the Search
Below the level of thoughts, concepts and even emotions are the subtle ways that life is felt directly in the body. David Rome explains how to Focus.
Intoxicants: Name Your Poison
I like to get a little out of it now and then, but I don't like to get too out of it too much, and thus my rule is to do as little as possible of any intoxicants, including caffeine.
Readers’ Essays: Intoxicants
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to intoxicants.
Just Don’t Do It
Sylvia Boorstein on the struggle of adjusting to new circumstances. Dealing with that stress? Maybe it's time to just take a break.
Readers’ Essays: Therapy
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to therapy.
Reader essays: Relationships
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to relationships.
The Thing about Relationships…
Let's cultivate clear seeing, rather than holding a hierarchy of images in which ordinary life, people and relationships are held as mundane and second-best.
Adventures in Breathing
Traveling the breath, Zen priest and yoga teacher Edward Espe Brown has found himself in some unexpected places.
Yoga Chic and the First Noble Truth
Yoga and meditation are ultimately about turning our eyes away from the airbrushed images of the outside world and looking deep within our own hearts.
Two Roads Diverged
Four experts, Stephen Cope, Victoria Austin, Richard Freeman, Jill Satterfield, on combining yoga and Buddhism.
Readers’ Exchange: Workplace
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to the workplace.
The Lama in the Lab: Neuroscience and Meditation
Daniel Goleman reports on the dialog between science and Buddhism, especially on how neuroscientists are measuring the effects of meditation.
Reader’s Exchange: Parenthood
Readers share their experience of practice in everyday on the topic of parenting.
The Practice of Parenthood
I remember to set down my solid baggage, unpack and get into the adventure of raising my child.