Category: Mindfulness
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.
Change of Heart
"My heart riffs through a repertory of responses before I can think," says Sylvia Boorstein. But she doesn't mind—she's glad to have a responsive heart.
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.
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.
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.
Warrior Poses
"Yoga practice is not necessarily relaxing; it trains us to be centered, awake, confident and flexible within effortful situations."
Entering the Marketplace with Helping Hands
Fred Kofman, a leading organizational theorist, argues that the essential spirit of business is not greed and self-advancement but compassion, even love.
Buddhists in the Boardroom
Do big business and Buddhism mix? Samuel Fromartz talks with three entrepeneurs who’ve tried to combine spiritual values and business success.
Landing at Tranquility Base
Moonlight shimmers on the surface of the steaming Japanese bath, while a gentle wind rustles. The very atmosphere seems to radiate relaxation and serenity.