Category: Mindfulness
A Few Words Before They Drag Me Away
In and out of hospital since childhood, Diana Atkinson on a life cut to pieces.
The Karma of Happiness
In measuring and prescribing human skills for a good life, lasting happiness requires that we carefully weigh the consequences of our actions.
Two Sciences of Mind
Barry Boyce reports on the dialogue between cutting-edge science and Buddhism's 2500-year study of the mind.
Showdown at Punk Palace
It's mindfulness versus Megadeth when Ian Prattis visits his art school son. Will hope triumph over heroin?
Forum Essays: Depression
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to depression and mental illness.
Searching for the Heart of Compassion
Marc Ian Barasch searches our society for compassion in action, compassionate people, and ways to find the compassion inside himself.
Jon Kabat-Zinn: The Man Who Prescribes the Medicine of the Moment
Barry Boyce profiles Jon Kabat-Zinn, whose mindfulness stress reduction program has brought the benefits of meditation practice to thousands of people.
Daughter Time
The time of childhood is going to go fast. I'm doing what I can to slow it down. There's still time for me to learn some of what they see and know and feel.
Awake at Work
What is “right livelihood”? What “spiritual values” should an employer support? Can I bring my spiritual priorities and insights to work?
Forum Essays: Work
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to work and the workplace.
Searching for the Truth that Is Far Below the Search
Below the level of thoughts, concepts and even emotions are the subtle ways that life is felt directly in the body. David Rome explains how to Focus.
Intoxicants: Name Your Poison
I like to get a little out of it now and then, but I don't like to get too out of it too much, and thus my rule is to do as little as possible of any intoxicants, including caffeine.
Readers’ Essays: Intoxicants
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to intoxicants.
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.