As it is practiced in the US today, mindfulness meditation focuses on being intensely aware, without any sort of judgment, of what one is sensing and feeling in the given moment. Mindfulness practice ...

Reducing stress and calming anxiety is possible, thanks to relaxation and meditation practices. If you also want to heal your ...

On a trip to Japan last year, one of the places I visited was Kyoto, home to over 2,000 Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. During one of my daily walks exploring the city and its forested borders, I ...

Imagine being asked to sit alone in a quiet room for 15 minutes with nothing to do – no phone, no music, no external ...

(The Conversation) — A scholar of digital religion and Buddhism argues that not all Western Buddhism practice is inauthentic. Here’s a way to know what’s real. My curiosity about the authenticity of ...

An accelerating desire for peace and quiet caused my wife and me to join a Buddhist meditation retreat hosted at a Catholic center near Kansas City after Christmas. The news wouldn’t improve after ...

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Jalice May is a busy mom who works almost full-time at her church. On Sundays, she oversees the nursery during services at Tibbetts United Methodist in West Seattle. Throughout the week, she runs the ...

It’s hard to put your finger on the point when the Western stereotype of Buddhist meditation flipped. It was sometime between the 1950s, when Zen Buddhism seeped into the beat generation, and the ...