Rod Meade Sperry talks to Lama Justin von Bujdoss about the practice of “darkness retreat,” which made headlines this week after NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers revealed he will soon undertake the practice to determine the future of his football career.
It’s a three-week “practice period” at the Zen Center. Sure, it sounds tough — but in the end, it’s all love.
After seeing multiple headlines about the dangers of meditation, Randy Rosenthal decided to investigate it for himself. Here’s what he found.
After launching their first Teens of Color in-person retreat in 2019, Inward Bound Mindfulness Education pivots to online programming.
From October 27-31, Spirit Rock Meditation Center is offering a free on-line meditation retreat for the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities. Led by Pawan Bareja, PhD, the retreat offers an accessible healing space for BIPOC practitioners and is now free of charge through the support of a private foundation. The theme of the […]
In September, “Creating Joy In Community” brought together 50 members of the transgender and gender expansive community for a residential retreat.
It takes intensive meditation practice to wear away your habitual patterns and discover the enlightened nature underneath, says Barbara Rhodes.
In the third issue in our 40th anniversary series, Melvin McLeod looks at how Western Buddhists can deepen their practice and study of Buddhism.
Convert Buddhism has a class problem: it appeals mostly to a narrow demographic of well-off college graduates. Buddhist scholar Ann Gleig offers some class consciousness to help Buddhism drop the barriers and benefit many more people.
Rima Vesely-Flad reports on Deep Time Liberation, a retreat that takes African American meditators into the heart of slavery’s past so they can free themselves from its legacy of trauma.
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