Personal Reflections Mindfulness
Alex Tzelnic
Alex Tzelnic is a Zen practitioner and writer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His essays have appeared in Killing the Buddha and The Rumpus.
These two Buddhists just got married. Here's what they learned.
Dreaming Up, And Revising, Our Buddhist Practice
A lesson in slowly but surely letting go of what drew us to meditation, so we can just practice.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Practice
Gym—and meditation—can be both about what we do and how we make sense of what we do.
Kids Say the Dharmdest Things, Part II
The second installment of koans collected by a Montessori gym teacher
Ideas (Meta)Physical Education
The Value of Mindfulness in the Classroom
An elementary gym teacher and Zen practitioner asks mindfulness expert Sandra Delaney if mindfulness is doing children more harm than good.
(Meta)Physical Education: Playing with Time
What can adults learn from how kids relate to time?
Meditation (Meta)Physical Education
How to Resist the Comfort of Repetition
What a Buddhist gym teacher learned from his students about moving beyond the familiar.
Personal Reflections (Meta)Physical Education
Being Wrong Until You Get It Right
What a physical education teacher and Zen practitioner learned about not knowing while teaching English in Vietnam.
Meditation (Meta)Physical Education
(Meta)Physical Education: A Bucking Brontosaurus
Children can remind us of how bright and mysterious our lives can be. But should we strive to emulate their minds?
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