Category: Mindfulness
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.
A Few Words Before They Drag Me Away
In and out of hospital since childhood, Diana Atkinson on a life cut to pieces.
The Karma of Happiness
In measuring and prescribing human skills for a good life, lasting happiness requires that we carefully weigh the consequences of our actions.
Two Sciences of Mind
Barry Boyce reports on the dialogue between cutting-edge science and Buddhism's 2500-year study of the mind.
Showdown at Punk Palace
It's mindfulness versus Megadeth when Ian Prattis visits his art school son. Will hope triumph over heroin?
Forum Essays: Depression
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to depression and mental illness.
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?