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June 2021

June 22, 2021

For Pride Month: Our 2015 Interview with La Sarmiento on Intersections of Gender, Identity, and Buddhism

This year we mark Pride Month with a re-run of an article first published in...

June 07, 2019

Intersections between Buddhism, Health, and Diversity in an American City

A guest post by Pierce Salguero Lately, the topic of diversity in American Buddhism has...

October 2017

October 15, 2017

Mindfulness, Mindlessness, and the Marketplace

In a spirited and thoughtful defense of secular mindfulness, Susan Kaiser Greenland has offered up several...

June 2017

June 07, 2017

Introducing Hey Mama! a children’s ebook on Meditation

Andrew Berkley Sharp is a 25 year-old social worker living just south of Seattle. He has...

May 2017

May 17, 2017

Settling into Online Meditation with Guideful

Mindfulness: Where We Are There is no escaping it. Mindfulness is everywhere these days. And...

May 11, 2017

A Roundup of Critical Perspectives on Meditation

A guest post by Pierce Salguero I am not a scholar of Buddhist meditation. My...

May 05, 2017

Confronting Our Demons: Courage as the Essence of Buddhism

There is no nobler vision than a willingness to voluntarily encounter the unknown. As human...

March 2017

March 27, 2017

A Survey on Mindfulness Coaching

With the ever-increasing awareness of mindfulness as a worthwhile practice and skill for everyone, new...

November 2016

November 29, 2016

The Buddhist Parable of the Mustard Seed: Grief, Loss, and Heartbreak

Most Christians will know the Parable of the Mustard Seed, wherein Jesus describes the Kingdom...

November 10, 2016

Day 1 after the election, solidarity and kindness

A LOT of feelings came up for me Tuesday night. After teaching meditation, I turned...

November 06, 2016

Facing the Election with Buddhist Practices of Love, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy and Equanimity

The days are mercifully winding down toward November 8th, the day our nation picks the...

October 2016

October 30, 2016

The Beginner’s Guide to Mindfulness: 8 Helpful Tips

A guest post from Janet Miller You don’t have to be a Buddhist (or a...

October 26, 2016

4 Myths about Meditation

As mindfulness continues its spread across the Western world, along with it has come a myriad...

October 20, 2016

What is Attention? Can Mindfulness Help? See “The Science of Meditation” Summit

I am fortunate enough to have a tiny bit of spare time now to tune...

September 2016

September 16, 2016

Venerable Dr. Yifa on stilling the mind with meditation

In the following video, one of my wonderful teachers, Ven. Yifa, discusses the Buddha's teaching...

August 2016

August 27, 2016

Mindful education – teaching meditation to kids via Cartoon Network’s “Steven Universe”

"take a moment to think of just... flexibility, love and trust" Steven Universe is a coming-of-age...

August 23, 2016

In Japanese “Most Handsome Monk Contest”, a female meditation teacher wins

Yesterday an organization in Japan held its second annual "Most Handsome Monk Contest" in Tokyo. One...

June 2016

June 21, 2016

Returning, or “5 meditations on the desert”

A little over a week ago, I packed my bags, spent a night in Missoula,...

May 2016

May 27, 2016

The Beginner’s Guide to Mindfulness: 8 Helpful Tips

A guest post from Janet Miller You don’t have to be a Buddhist (or a...

April 2016

April 04, 2016

Mindfulness and Self-Care: Why Should I Care?

A guest post by Edwin Ng with Ron Purser Editor's note: this is the second in a...

April 01, 2016

Study shows most Americans shouldn’t meditate: repress awful life events instead

Lead author Willow B. England of Orange University in upstate New York describes why meditation...

March 2016

March 19, 2016

Mindfulness, MOOCs, and Money in Higher Education

For the next three days I will be in Boulder CO at the Mindfulness, MOOCs, and...

March 15, 2016

Buddhism and Health: Illuminating the Spectrum of Therapies

A guest post by Pierce Salguero About two months ago, we began to notice a...

March 13, 2016

Meditation Olympics – the winner might surprise you

Capitalizing on the ongoing surge in mindfulness popularity, comedian, actor, and motivational speaker Kyle Cease...

March 07, 2016

Princeton’s Robert Wright talks meditation, ethics, and awakening with Daniel Ingram

Readers here will recall Robert Wright from a series of lectures he gave two years...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

A Mindfulness Dystopia? Pamela Anderson gets ‘Connected’

With the help of Jane Fonda (narrating), director Luke Gilford (a David Lynch prodigy) has created...

February 19, 2016

The Onion takes on popular Buddhist “meditation apps”

In their latest jab at the growing popularity of Buddhism in the West and one of...

February 17, 2016

How Mindfulness Works: The Story of the Two Wolves

Mindfulness, as we discussed last month with Jeff Wilson's lecture on the topic, is the...

October 2015

October 18, 2015

Meditation and a Busy Lifestyle: Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Here's a new video from Mingyur Rinpoche, founder of Bodhgaya’s giant Tergar Monastery and author of numerous...

August 2015

August 17, 2015

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche on how us lazy people can start meditation

Mingyur Rinpoche, founder of Bodhgaya's giant Tergar Monastery and author of numerous widely praised books...

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