Each week we choose an image that’s been submitted to seeingfresh.com that really exemplifies the practice of contemplative photography.
Meet “Mayor Buddha”
What’s in a name? If you’d asked the citizens of Lemig, Vermont a week ago what makes Mayor Ronald Green qualified for the job of running their fair city, you’d have gotten a host of replies: He’s “trustworthy.” He’s of “old Lemig blood.” But ask them today, and there’s a distinct change in tone: “Ronald […]
From The Under 35 Project: “The Case for Kindness”
There’s another perspective of kindness that is so common it often goes unnoticed: a simple sense of being of the same kind.
Video: Experience ten minutes of an eight-week “Retreat”
By Canadian filmmaker David Cherniack, a new documentary film follows thirty-five Westerners as they attempt an eight-week, silent retreat.
Japanese fashion house offers “a casual style based on the [Zen] priest aesthetic”
Zen priests who want to be stylish (and stylish people who want Zen fashion) need look no further than Bon, a Hiroshima-based fashion house.
X-Men’s Wolverine: A Zen Buddhist?
Is Wolverine a Buddhist? Well, that may be pushing things.
This week’s “Seeing Fresh” contemplative photo
Each week we choose an image that’s been submitted to seeingfresh.com that really exemplifies the practice of contemplative photography.
From The Under 35 Project: “The Space of Emptiness”
The gift a flash of emptiness can give, writes Leslie Gossett, is an opening to the world.
A Brief Moment in Deep Time
In the Mojave Desert, J. Jason Graff reflects on silence, time, and slowing down in our modern age through mindfulness.
“Buddha Would Probably Like Restorative Justice”
A guest post by Lorenn Walker, public health educator and longtime meditator, on the compassion of restorative justice.




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