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As interest in mindfulness booms, four Buddhist teachers discuss the history and meaning of the term and how it can get distorted in the popular imagination.
A conversation with Stephen Batchelor, Christina Feldman, Akincano M. Weber, and John Peacock
Shifting our attention from life’s failures to its joys primes us to seize inspiration when it arises.
By Tenzin Wangyal
When you treat your mind with kindfulness, your mind does not want to wander off anywhere.
By Ajahn Brahm
Is samaya a commitment to do whatever your teacher says?
By Ken McLeod, Photographs by Seth Miranda
If enlightenment is possible in this life, then why haven't more of us reached it? A Buddhist scholar and practitioner makes a call for genuine awakening.
By Andrew Olendzki
How to behave more like a lion and less like a dog
By Phakchok Rinpoche and Erric Solomon, Photography by Nick Brandt
Meditation teacher Loch Kelly tries out his contemplative practice inside a floatation tank.
By Matthew Abrahams
Lama Tsultrim Allione discusses the fierce feminine figures of Tibetan Buddhism and how they can teach us to transform negative emotions into clarity and strength.
By Emma Varvaloucas
Awareness is one of the seven factors of awakening. But another factor calls for us to probe deeper.
By Allen Weiss
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