Category: Mindfulness
Now is a good time
An anonymous account from one of our readers on how a Buddhist perspective helped her through a challenging period in her life.
A Reply to Chip Brown’s “Enlightenment Therapy”
Mitra Bishop-sensei, responds to the suggestion that Zen practice discourages people from facing their emotional and psychological problems.
Meditators Better Able to Tolerate Pain
Study finds that a group of Zen meditators had a higher threshold for pain—whether meditating or not—compared with a group of non-meditators.
Admirable friend
Alexa Mergen learns that an admirable friend shines a light on the wonder of compassion and that compassion requires awareness to be received.
The Buddha and Suze Orman
There are surprising parallels between the noble truths of Buddhism and money guru Suze Orman’s advice on getting real financially.
The Mindful Society: Walking the Talk
Barry Boyce's Mindful Society column from the May 2009 issue of Lion's Roar Magazine.
The Wall Street Journal now espousing “The Dharma of Capitalism”?
Everyone's getting so spiritual now, with the economic downturn. Why? Rod Meade Sperry looks into the recent phenomenon.
Medicate or Meditate?
Four physicians and long-term meditators explain why both antidepressants can have an important role to play in treating depression.
Mindfulness, Love, and Relationships: Sylvia Boorstein’s “We Are All Wayfarers”
It's very easy to get annoyed, particularly with our loved ones. I've been married to someone for fifty-three years and in a close relationship with him for fifty-six. Sometimes that person makes a stupid remark that hurts my feelings, doesn't know he did it, and barrels right on.
Anxiety Soup
For times troubled with everything from Wall Street to very inconvenient truths, Alice Walker gives us her recipe for finding equanimity.
The Miracle of Downward Dog: A Buddhist Discovers Hatha Yoga
A Buddhist practitioner finds that the best way to begin yoga is with a beginner's mind.—Mark Epstein, M.D., is author of Thoughts Without a Thinker, Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart and Going on Being: Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and Psychotherapy.
The Goddess Pose
Andrea Miller sits down for a Q&A with celebrated yoga teacher Shiva Rea about the true and transformative nature of yoga.
Commentary: Looking Under the Bed
Karen Maezen Miller on being a Zen priest and a mother in a modern world that won't confront the "Zen under the bed".
Street Yoga
Street Yoga founded in 2002 and offers free yoga, meditation, and wellness classes to homeless youth and to youth at risk of being homeless.
Of Course I’m Angry
As his marriage falls apart, Gabriel Cohen has a chance encounter with Buddhism that shows him the anger is his alone, and serves no one.
The Mindful Society
Not long ago seen as fringey and foreign, mindfulness practice is going mainstream. Andrea Miller looks at five fields with mindful living.
Q & A: Alice Waters
An interview with celebrity chef Alice Waters about healthy food, ethical ingredients and how to change the world with our eating choices.
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.