On Practice

Magazine Meditation & Practice

What Is This?

Martine Batchelor offers a Korean Zen koan practice to refresh our minds and open us to creative wisdom.

By Martine Batchelor

Fall 2008

Magazine Meditation & Practice

Feeding Your Demons

Five steps to transforming your obstacles—your addictions, anxieties, and fears—into tranquility and wisdom, from Tsultrim Allione.

By Lama Tsultrim Allione

Summer 2008

The Lucky Dark

A guide to allowing a gentle and meaningful death for our loved ones and for ourselves, from Joan Halifax.

By Joan Halifax

Spring 2008

Full Body, Empty Mind

Will Johnson explains that by turning our awareness to the full range of physical sensations, the body becomes a doorway to awakening.

By Will Johnson

Fall 2007

What You’re Made Of

Bodhipaksa guides us through the Buddha's powerful Six Element practice to equanimity, pure and bright. Photography by Susan Derges

By Bodhipaksa

Summer 2007

Commit to Sit

Take Tricycle's 28-day meditation challenge and go on retreat without leaving home.

By Tricycle

Spring 2007

As If I Were Your Mother

My son was less than twenty-four hours old, and I knew he was going to die. The yellow cotton hat snuggled on his precious head, the brown handknit blanket securing his winging arms, he.

By Sarah Aceto

Spring 2007

Worry Beads

Clark Strand traces the history of malas and how this ancient practice brings peace.

By Clark Strand

Winter 2006

Stepping Towards Enlightenment

How deep can your meditation go? Thai forest monk Ajahn Brahm traces the path from mindfulness to profound meditative states through the sixteen steps of anapanasati.

By Ajahn Brahm

Fall 2006

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Jun 19, 2018

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By Curtis White

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Practicing with Zen Koans in Your Everyday Life

Our intellects can help us surmise that one plus one equals two, or that we need a key to start the engine of our car, but in the face of existential questions, ordinary understanding comes to a screeching halt. Master Bon Yeon (Jane Dobisz), the guiding teacher of the Cambridge Zen Center, says that koan practice begins in these “don’t know” spaces—the questions we can’t rationalize or figure out.

Zen Master Bon Yeon

Jun 2018

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On Practice

Magazine Meditation & Practice

What Is This?

Magazine Meditation & Practice

Feeding Your Demons

Magazine Body & Mind

The Lucky Dark

MagazineBody & Mind

Full Body, Empty Mind

MagazineMeditation & Practice

What You’re Made Of

Magazine

Commit to Sit

MagazinePersonal Reflections

As If I Were Your Mother

MagazineMeditation & Practice

Worry Beads

MagazineMeditation & Practice

Stepping Towards Enlightenment