“Even when disease cannot be cured, there is often a way to use this difficult experience to know more intimately the value and purpose of your life.”
Mirroring the journey of her novel’s heroine, Ruth Ozeki explored meat and media and discovered that writing is always political and denial always a choice. What’s in a Name? Last year my first novel was published. It’s called My Year of Meats. It’s a good title, I think. A funny title. A little proud, a […]
From computers to beauty products, Madison Avenue has discovered that spirituality sells. Todd Stein on the irony of spiritual themes in materialism.
A look at healing meditations developed by Tulku Thondup Rinpoche, author of The Healing Power of Mind.
The false prophet and the genuine spiritual master both undermine the habitual patterns of self. Yet there is an important difference between them.
“After fifteen years of radical activity, something broke up inside me. I saw no political reality in any part of the world that I could embrace.”
When you gather people together for a feast if you set the time and the table, the food, and the accouterments just right, it can bring grace.
“Asia has Confucius; we have Oedipus.” Norman Fischer on the teacher-student relationship in Western Buddhist practice.
“Pushing the dripping hair from my face, the rain running down my cheeks, I speak to my old teacher. ‘I’m here. It took me a while, but I made it.’
From the inner city to hospitals and prisons, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn’s meditation courses are helping thousands handle illness stress, anger and addiction.
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