Millions worldwide practice mindfulness meditation, not just for their mental health but as a means to enhance their general well-being, reduce stress and be more productive at work. The past decade ...

Mental illness alone costs the U.S. billions of dollars each year. Here's how low-cost, underused approaches like meditation could reverse the trend.

The year 2020 has been rough with us. In the collective sense, we’ve seen disease, death, political strife, racial injustice, and economic adversity cause a great deal of suffering. Personally, life ...

While meditation is well known as a technique to reduce stress and anxiety, it may also help enhance your mood, promote healthy sleep patterns, and boost cognitive skills. Meditation is the habitual ...

Buddhist meditation centers and temples in coronavirus-hit countries around the world have been closed to the public in order to comply with social distancing measures. In Asia, Buddhist monks have ...

Are human beings hard-wired to be perpetually dissatisfied? Author Robert Wright, who teaches about the interface of evolutionary biology and religion, thinks so. Wright points out that evolution ...

Is it possible to feel physical pain without suffering? For thousands of years, that question has fueled Buddhist mindfulness practices that combat pain relief by embracing the inevitability of ...

Before Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, he asked several of his friends to continue his life’s work building what he called “beloved community.” One of the people he invited was the Vietnamese Zen ...

Janice and I are sitting at the kitchen table, enjoying our morning coffee. Silently, we gaze out the sliding-door windows on this late summer morning. I notice the hazy sky. I think it is probably ...