Molly Hahn | Posted 05.11.2012
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Molly Hahn | Posted 05.09.2012
Molly Hahn | Posted 05.07.2012
William Horden | Posted 05.03.2012
Is there an inner compass we can trust to guide our steps to an enduring sense of well-being in these turbulent times?
Olivia Rosewood | Posted 04.20.2012
Zazen is traditionally practiced sitting on a zafu pillow or bench in cross-legged full lotus with erect posture of spine and zero slouching. Part of the traditional character of zen is that it can require mental and physical discipline.
Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 04.13.2012
Food is one of the last few pleasures left when illness leaves one laying in bed in a small room with little else available in terms of sensory gratification. Food is also an important part of caregiving.
Rev. Zesho Susan O'Connell | Posted 04.11.2012
Flexibility of mind is strengthened through sitting still. As we resist the urge to jump up and do something about our thoughts and feelings we begin to develop a softness in our minds.
Richard Schiffman | Posted 01.12.2012
The mood has changed in the OWS encampment from early euphoria to one of hunkering down for the long siege. It is getting cold, people are falling sick, squabbling over space, stuff is being stolen, nerves are fraying.
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 01.12.2012
Through meditation you come to realize that who you are is no longer sourced in your mind or body or even your ego-personality, but in something else, something deeper that exists "prior" to all of these different aspects of yourself.
David Loy | Posted 12.11.2011
In contemporary terms, our sense of being separate from others is a psychosocial construct, composed of habitual ways of thinking, feeling and acting.
Posted 11.22.2011
What do you get when you combine post-structuralist theory, Taoist philosophy and a Shanghai mall? 'Beyond Infinity,' a disorienting journey through m...
Jennifer Armstrong | Posted 10.28.2011
It's well past time for girls to grow up seeing women in robes up there on the altar, creating a matriarchal lineage to equal the far-too-patriarchal one.
Colleen Morton Busch | Posted 10.18.2011
Decisions are the junctures where our lives meet the world. They define the trail we leave behind. But we make good decisions, ironically, when we let go of trying to make good decisions or to leave a mark at all.
Sarah O'Leary | Posted 07.22.2011
Why does peace scare us? Why do we want to tear down rather than create? We need to leave poor God out of this one. It's something we need to ask ourselves.
Michael Sigman | Posted 08.13.2011
How about a moratorium on the politicization of Zen? What we're looking for is authenticity, a goal Zen shares with most religions, systems of thought and plain common sense.
Marianne Elliott | Posted 08.08.2011
If what I think I have to offer isn't needed and yet I insist on giving it, then I have to suspect that something other than generosity is at play.
Sebastian Siegel | Posted 08.08.2011
Breath -- and he is inextricably rewoven into eternity, ideated as an aperture through which light shines. Upon a closer look he appears as a portal o...
William Horden | Posted 07.25.2011
Enlightenment is not restricted to ancient monks living in harmony with nature. It is an experience open to all, regardless of where or when they live.
Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011
There are few poets as underappreciated today as Michael McClure. For close to six decades now, he has been writing visionary poetry, lauded by many ...
Marc Lesser | Posted 11.17.2011
We all need to take care of our financial lives. However, what she learned was to see and appreciate the life she was already living, to embrace what she loved and appreciated about her life.
Jilly Gagnon | Posted 05.25.2011
You searched: Friday dance nights downtown. And your search returned: Do you know the sound of one hand clapping?
Jeff Wise | Posted 05.25.2011
While the risks are greater without a buffer of companions, so are the rewards. You enjoy perfect freedom of thought and movement, a steeling of self-reliance, and an ability to connect more intensely.
Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011
I loaf and invite my soul, I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. --Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" Five years ago, I blew a ch...
Alison Rose Levy | Posted 11.17.2011
We are missing out on an precious opportunity for spiritual growth when we avoid confronting and contemplating what we call death.
Molly Hahn | Posted 05.17.2012