Tens of times a day, Diana Winston’s two-year-old daughter helps her practice letting go.
Three Ways to Uncover Your Natural Awareness
Diana Winston on 3 ways to bring natural awareness into your mindfulness practice—and your life.
Review: The Little Book of Being
In “The Little Book of Being,” Diana Winston—using straightforward, secular language—explains how to cultivate natural awareness.
UCLA receives $20 million grant to study kindness
The now-established UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute hopes to use its research to promote kindness and create a more humane world.
Mindfulness: The Power of Awareness
Diana Winston on how to use the tools of mindfulness to work with negative patterns like shame, guilt, and self-criticism that stand in the way of caring for and liking yourself.
How to Meditate Every Day — Even if You Would Rather Be Thrown into a Shark-Infested Ocean
Diane Winston sympathizes with those who struggle to sit every day, and gives ten suggestions for having a regular daily practice.
Forum: What Does Mindfulness Mean for Buddhism?

Four leading thinkers address Buddhists’ questions about secular mindfulness: Where are the ethics? Does it go deep enough? Will it help or hurt Buddhism?
The Challenges Ahead
Two hundred teachers gathered for a Buddhist Teachers Council to discuss the future of Buddhism in the West. A forum on the key issues.