Category: Mindfulness
How Can I Be a Compassionate Caregiver?
Caring for someone with a chronic or terminal illness can bring out the best in us, says Stan Goldberg, but it can also reveal our judgments.
Addiction & Mindfulness—One Moment at a Time
Addiction mocks hope, kills people, destroys families. David Swick reports on how mindfulness practice is helping people change.
Let It Bee
A divorce and a bee infestation—these are things that can sting. Jennifer Lauck on learning to embrace what is, just as it is.
The Taste of Thusness
Hoko Jan Karnegis explains how nyoho, or the dharma of thusness, guides the menu at a Zen kitchen.
Author Gabriel Cohen on taking a “Buddhist path through divorce”
The author of <i>Storms Can’t Hurt the Sky: a Buddhist Path Through Divorce</i> Gabriel Cohen shares how Buddhism can be help.
A Bell With a Crack in It
It may not ring as clearly, but it can ring as sweetly. Diane Ackerman on her husband's stroke and the language of healing.
The Best-Laid Plans
A vomiting child in an airport hotel—it wasn’t the vacation she had in mind. Anne Cushman on the teachings of a trip gone awry.
This is Your Brain on Mindfulness
Meditators say their practice fundamentally changes the way they experience life. Michael Baime reports on the neuroscience behind this.
Welcoming the Homeless
Jon Clark happened upon a Buddhist book that changed his life. Now he’s bringing the dharma to others who have fallen on hard times.
Make Me One With Everything
Bernie Glassman, Carolyn Rose Gimian, and Norman Fischer look at how humor not only lightens our load but deepens our practice.
Do science and Buddhism agree on the idea of character?
Alan Brush finds a scientific discussion of "character" that closely parallels the Buddhist conception of aggregates.
One mom’s key to meditating with baby? Lowering the bar
New mom Diana Winston "desperately wanted" her ideas about meditation with her baby to work. Here she shares her most successful experiments.
A Way of Seeing
The practice of contemplative photography, say Andy Karr and Michael Wood, doesn’t just change the way we take pictures. It changes our view.
Freeing the Body and Mind by Connecting Yoga and Buddhism
How can we use the body to study the mind, and work with the mind through the body? Michael Stone connects the practice of Yoga and Buddhism.
Conversations from Wisdom 2.0, Part 1: “Mind Deep” blogger Marguerite Manteau-Rao (Video)
Rod Meade Sperry connects with Marguerite Manteau-Rao, the blogger behind Mind Deep, at the Wisdom 2.0 conference.
The Upside of Money Troubles
Carolyn Rose Gimian reminds us that our difficulties with money are opportunities for working with our mind and strengthening our practice.
Food for Thought: Exercising the compassion muscle
Jill S. Schneiderman discusses Jonathan Safran Foer's thesis in Eating Animals, where he argues that vegetarianism is a compassionate choice.
The Lessons of Gratitude
From Thanissaro Bhikkhu, abbot of the Metta Forest Monastery, comes a new teaching about what the historical Buddha taught about gratitude.
Frozen Yoga and McMindfulness: Miles Neale on the mainstreaming of contemplative religious practices
Danny Fisher in conversation with Buddhist psychotherapist and meditation teacher Miles Neale about the mainstreaming of mindfulness.
The Healing Power of Mindfulness
Barry Boyce convenes a distinguished panel to discuss the health benefits of mindfulness — what it does, how to do it, why it works.