Category: Mindfulness
From The Under 35 Project: “Cushion and Apron — On Meditation and Waitressing”
Here's the latest from The Under 35 Project by Sarah Fox, on the junction between meditation and waitressing.
From The Under 35 Project: “Captain Hook and Indian #2: A Love Story Ruined by Epically Unrealistic Expectations”
Here's the latest from The Under 35 Project by Susan Yao, about the pain of attachment to unrealistic expectations.
From The Under 35 Project: “The Dharma is in the Medicine”
The Under 35 Project Stacy Chivers writes about working with sick people and offering them "love, patience, and compassion."
Don’t Go There
As a Jew and a Briton, Henry Shukman had avoided all things German. But he said yes when asked him to teach at a zendo in the Black Forest.
Jolly Good
There is a natural healthiness and sense of goodness we can all experience personally, says Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche on the Shambhala teachings. "Then we will discover what kind of joy is needed to help the world. We find that the joy of warriorship is always needed."
From The Under 35 Project: “Into the Wild”
From The Under 35 Project: Jennifer Horton discovered Buddhism a little less than a year ago, and her world hasn’t been the same since.
From The Under 35 Project: “Out of Mind, Heart Grow Fonder”
Here's the latest from The Under 35 Project, by Angela Allan, on how Buddhist practice buoys a long-distance relationship.
From The Under 35 Project: “No Cheating”
From The Under 35 Project: Michael Felberbaum on the harsh and difficult realities of meditation that don't get advertised in pop culture.
Into Bright Relief
An inconceivable accident. For Marcelle Gilkerson and her community, compassionate togetherness would be the key to going forward.
From The Under 35 Project: “Peace, Redefined”
From The Under 35 Project, Kelley Clink explains how starting a meditation practice helped her to work with her grief after a family tragedy.
The Healing Moment
Susan Bauer-Wu helps us ease the physical, mental, and emotional stress of illness with a simple mindfulness practice.
The Traffic Light Method
Try this mindful communication technique, says Susan Gillis Chapman, when you’re experiencing stress in your relationships.
The Tweeting, Yelping, Flickring, Foursquaring, TripAdvising Mentality
Michael A. Stusser on the dangers of a wildly overstimulated brain in our modern culture of constant media consumption.
Perfectly Imperfect
In a world of Botox and little blue pills, we could all use more wabi sabi. Because imperfection, says Roger Housden, is what makes us human.
Stress Relief for the Constantly Connected
Life vs. screens: who’s really in control? Lori Deschene on how to make sure you’re the one in charge of your technology.
From The Under 35 Project: “The social action of letting go”
Here's the latest from The Under 35 Project, by Laura Randeles, on struggling to meet the wrong expectations.
From the Under 35 Project: Heart on Fire
Here's the latest installment in the Under 35 Project, "Heart on Fire" by Brian Otto Kimmel. It's the first post June's theme, Social Action.
Forum: Heal the Self, Free the Self
John Welwood, Andrew Holecek, and Grace Schireson look at bringing together Western psychology and Buddhism to support one’s practice.
From The Under 35 Project: How not to tell a colleague to **** off
A new piece from the Under 35 Project, in which Sarah Maynard tries to be more patient with a disagreeable coworker.
The Mindful Society: The Kindest Thing You Can Do
From the July 2012 issue, Barry Boyce's Mindful Society column profiles Susan Bauer-Wu, who uses mindful diagnosis in her medical practice.