Diana Winston sympathizes with those who struggle to sit every day, and gives ten suggestions for having a regular daily practice. Your unforgiving alarm rings for all it's worth. It's 7AM. You crash out of bed, slamming your toe on your bedside table. You fumble for your meditation cushion in the dark. "It's over here somewhere," you mumble. Hearing you awaken from the [...]
Let It Slide
© Saschad, Dreamstime.com Tens of times a day, Diana Winston's two-year-old daughter helps her practice letting go. At the park, my daughter is climbing the ladder to the top of the slide. I think this is a great idea. I love slides; I’ve always loved slides. But my two year old isn’t really a slider. She’s more of a hanger. She loves to swing from monkey bars, which [...]
Forum: What Does Mindfulness Mean for Buddhism?
Diana Winston, Barry Boyce, Melissa Myozen Blacker, and Trudy Goodman address Buddhists' questions about secular mindfulness: Where are the ethics? Does it go deep enough? Will it help or hurt Buddhism? Introduction by Jenny Wilks. In my dog-eared 1956 edition of Nyanaponika's The Heart of Buddhist Meditation, the preface by Graham Howe makes a prescient observation: Founded [...]
The Challenges Ahead
Two hundred teachers gathered for a Buddhist Teachers Council to discuss the future of Buddhism in the West. Pat Enkyo O’Hara, Gina Sharpe, Ken McLeod, and Diana Winston assess the key issues. This past June, about two hundred Buddhist teachers from across North America and Europe gathered at the Garrison Institute near New York for a three-day conference that had been [...]
