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These Mesmerizing Zen Garden Videos Offer a Calming Antidote to Your Doomscrolling

Self-taught video artist Yuki Kawae hopes that his designs provide relief and inspire unity amidst troubled times and cluttered feeds.

By Alison Spiegel

Mar 25, 2022

Trike Daily Meditation & Practice

How to Hone Moral Attention—and Why It’s So Important

A professor uses wisdom from Asian religions to help millennial students regain focus and the benefits that come with it

By Beverley McGuire

Nov 15, 2021

Finding Clarity and Connection

A Q&A with meditator poet Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo)

By Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar

Fall 2021

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A Wholesome Media Diet

Amid all the information (and misinformation), I find an anchor in being mindful about my news consumption.

By Jihii Jolly

Apr 29, 2020

Digital Detox: Reclaim Your Mind From Social Media Addiction

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram—these sites and other social media platforms can be emotional minefields, and they eat up far more time than many of us are OK with. Triratna teacher Bodhipaksa offers five practices from the Buddha that we can use to break our e-addictions.

By Bodhipaksa

Jan 2020

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How Mindfulness Can Free Us from Our Social Media Tribes

By learning to notice our biases, we can avoid deepening the tribal divide.

By Robert Wright

May 07, 2019

Buddha statue being defaced by Twitter birds

MagazineSociety & Environment

Unmasking the Guru

Our new digital world has made it impossible to believe in infallible teachers. What comes next is up to us.

Interview with Bernhard Pörksen by Ursula Richard

Summer 2019

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The State of Mindful Resistance

The most important parts of Buddhist author Robert Wright’s newsletter are the stories that aren’t there.

By Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar

Nov 05, 2018

Trike DailySociety & Environment

The Russian Plot to Control Your Mindfulness

What a faux-spiritual Facebook page run by Kremlin propagandists can teach us about encountering our own biases and emotional reactions.

By Bodhipaksa

Oct 03, 2018

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You Can’t Be Yourself By Yourself: Overcoming Structural Selfishness

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Jun 2022

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