If you want to penetrate the mysteries of Zen, try thinking of yourself as a blueberry muffin. That’s what lay teacher Laura Jomon Martin told a small group of Zen students after a recent meditation ...

(RNS) — In all Zen traditions, meditation is the backbone of the practice. Students sit with a tall spine, hands loosely interlocked and eyes half-closed. At Chosei Zen in Madison, Wisconsin, though, ...

Life has become a race these days where we all of us are running to win. If you are also living a fast-paced life, stop for a moment and analyze if you are satisfied with the quality of life. The most ...

On a trip to Japan last year, one of the places I visited was Kyoto, home to over 2,000 Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. During one of my daily walks exploring the city and its forested borders, I ...

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‘Truthfully, the act of meditation is just learning how to sit still and hush up and to give yourself some space to breathe.’ Black Zen, a meditation group in the Twin Cities, seeks to make meditation ...

Coming of age at a time when the counterculture was embracing Eastern mysticism, Steve Jobs ended up as a lifelong practitioner of Zen meditation. Through the lens of Jobs’s amazing life, career, and ...

The seemingly nonsensical Zen practice of "thinking about not thinking" could help free the mind of distractions, new brain scans reveal. This suggests Zen meditation could help treat attention ...

Though we've read about it in history books, or have heard about its lifestyle changes, exactly what is Buddhism? Buddhism is a religion that has been practiced for more than 2,500 years starting in ...

Kodo Sawaki, trans. from the Japanese by Arthur Braverman. Counterpoint, $16.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-64009-377-5 The life and writings of Kodo Sawaki (1880–1965) receive a thorough ...

How does a Juilliard-trained concert violinist and Roman Catholic nun wind up as a Zen master who ministered to some of the world’s toughest prisoners? Few people confounded religious sensibilities ...