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?
Children at an elementary school in Baltimore, Maryland, are introduced to meditation through the Holistic Life Program. Photo by Mark Mahaney.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.