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Magazine Society & Environment

Resisting the Attention Economy

A Silicon Valley data scientist and Zen priest reflects on Jenny Odell’s instant classic, How to Do Nothing.

By Dan Zigmond

Spring 2020

Magazine Society & Environment

Jewish Buddhists, an American Tradition

Emily Sigalow’s American JewBu traces the history of the Jewish encounter with Buddhism in the US.

By Matthew Abrahams

Spring 2020

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Neither Here Nor There

Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam’s new film brings viewers into the emotional heart of Tibetan life in exile.

By Julia Hirsch

Winter 2019

Forgiving Grace

Survivors of the Charleston church shooting respond by embracing the tenets of their faith.

By Hawa Allan

Winter 2019

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A More Human Nature

How together Eastern and Western philosophical traditions can create a richer map of the self

By Matthew Abrahams

Fall 2019

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The Mind Cure?

Three scholars on the mindfulness movement: what it gets right, what it gets wrong, and its surprising history.

By C. Pierce Salguero

Fall 2019

How to Wage Magical War

An exhibition at the Rubin Museum of Art reveals the inner workings of power, politics, and Tibetan Buddhism in premodern Asia.

By Anne Doran

Summer 2019

Picturing India’s Ancient Mystics

Paintings of the eighty-four mahasiddhas, celebrated adepts of old, are presented in a rare complete collection from Tibet.

By Ken McLeod

Summer 2019

Going Everywhere While Staying Put

A centuries-old Korean fantasy novel is alive with Buddhist insight into space and time.

By Douglas Penick

Summer 2019

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Mar 30, 2020

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By Sumi Loundon Kim

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Mindfulness of the Four Elements: Reconnecting with the World

In the Satipatthana Sutta, the Buddha taught practitioners to contemplate the four elements—earth, fire, water, and air—as a foundation of mindfulness practice. Our Meditation Month teacher, Sebene Selassie, shows how this oft-overlooked practice of examining the elements as basic metaphors for experience can help us see our inherent connections to nature.

Sebene Selassie

Mar 2020

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Reviews

Magazine Society & Environment

Resisting the Attention Economy

Magazine Society & Environment

Jewish Buddhists, an American Tradition

Magazine

Neither Here Nor There

Magazine

Forgiving Grace

MagazineHistory & Philosophy

A More Human Nature

MagazineMeditation & Practice

The Mind Cure?

MagazineArts & Culture

How to Wage Magical War

MagazineArts & Culture

Picturing India’s Ancient Mystics

Magazine

Going Everywhere While Staying Put