Meditation practice awakens our trust that the wisdom and compassion that we need are already within us.
The Balanced Body and the Middle Way
While tension and imbalance manifest as discursiveness, a truly balanced body generates an ease and relaxation that naturally supports the awakened mind.
Did You Hear?
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche on the three activities that are essential to training our minds — hearing, contemplating, and meditating.
The Complete Package: Meditation and Yoga
Yoga for the body and Buddhist meditation for the mind – it could the complete package. They offer insights and experiences that complement each other well.
The Miracle of Downward Dog
Buddhist practitioner Mark Epstein discovers the joys of hatha yoga.
Sisters
“I can’t know what it’s like to be a woman, or even how exactly to be a dad to girls, but I know something of sisters, and even perhaps of sisterhood.”
Choosing to be Healthy
Photo by Jamie Street.
“Lifestyle habits can hopefully be viewed in a more positive context than the nagging “shoulds” that we wrestle with daily.”
Working with Human Goodness
What becomes available to us when we greet one another as fully human? This is an important question as we struggle through this dark time.
Zen’s Radical Conservative: John Daido Loori Roshi
John Daido Loori is an imaginative modernizer yet fierce upholder of the old ways of Zen. John Kain reports from Zen Mountain Monastery.
A Path, Not a Program: Greyston Mandala
Greyston Mandala uses Buddhist principles to redefine social service. Along with shelter, work and medical care, it offers clients a light on their path.