A pulsating cosmopolis of 10 million, Bangkok at times seems like the most unlikely Buddhist city on earth, despite the glittering spires of its famed shrines and temples. It’s tempting to view the ...

Zazen refers to sitting meditation. It is a practice that originates from the teachings of Buddha and is believed to give insight into your true nature of being. The aim of Zazen is to let go of all ...

Dressed in flowing gold robes, the bald female meditation teacher told us to do nothing. We were to sit silently in our plastic chairs, close our eyes, and focus on our breath. I had never meditated, ...

Jan Willis never felt drawn to the Baptist church of her 1950s Alabama childhood--a place where the preacher hadn't done his job unless he whipped parishioners into a spiritual frenzy that left them ...

You can’t learn to play tennis by holding a racket for a few minutes every few months. With meditation, the effort is aimed at developing not a physical skill but an inner enrichment. In extreme cases ...

Interest in Buddhism has swelled in recent years alongside the rise of mindfulness, yet the ways in which it is approached, including by therapists, is often piecemeal, with the work of Mark Epstein ...

Is it possible to feel physical pain without suffering? For thousands of years, that question has fueled Buddhist mindfulness practices that combat pain relief by embracing the inevitability of ...

Interest in Buddhism has swelled in recent years alongside the rise of mindfulness, yet the ways in which it is approached, including by therapists, is often piecemeal, with the work of Mark Epstein ...