The writer’s job, says Pico Iyer, is to watch his moods and thoughts, as captivating yet passing as the seasons, and decide which are worth sharing.
Hatha Raja: Yoga’s Path to Liberation
Yoga becomes a complete spiritual path when we join the familiar postures of hatha yoga with the meditative practices of rajah yoga.
Still Mind, Moving Body
Andrea Miller profiles five teachers who combine hatha yoga and Buddhist meditation. Is this the perfect mind–body practice?
Wisdom of the Rebels
Tom Robbins on the Zen rebels, Sufi saints, and wild yogis who fight conventional mind with humor, outrageousness, and paradox.
Coming Home to the Body
The practice of meditation is a journey of return to who we really are, says Zen teacher Norman Fischer. We come home to the body.
Discovering Our Nobility: A Psychology of Original Goodness
Prominent Buddhist teacher and psychologist Jack Kornfield proposes a new psychology, one based not on a model of sickness but on Buddhism’s belief in the inherent nobility, beauty, and freedom of human nature.
The Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Seen in Kabul
Photojournalist Aaron Huey has seen terrible things through the lens of his camera. Then he visited Molly Howitt’s yoga class for orphan boys.
Crisis and Opportunity in Tibet
The crisis in Tibet offers Chinese authorities the opportunity to give Tibetans their human rights, and set China itself on a better course.
Evaluating Eckhart
Review of “A New Earth” by Eckhart Tolle and “The Joy of Living” by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.
Books in Brief July 2008
Reviews of Books from July 2008.