Five centuries elapsed between the assassination of the Buddha and the writing down of the teachings that would be attributed to him....

I’ve never cared for the name “panic attack,” it feels judgy; like someone is calling me a coward, or like Nelson (from the Simpsons) is...

Like a dog driven by a lingering scent to gnaw on a bone, devoid of all visible particles of flesh, our mind can return to a problem...

During meditation I recommend the Buddha’s four Metta meditations and sixteen Anapanasati contemplations. In between your meditation...

Many years ago Trungpa Rinpoche warned against spiritual materialism for he was taught the path of radical non-duality. Not the subtle...

How can we sit on our over-fed asses when the continued rise of fascism, jingoism, and ecocide, (no less speciesism, sexism, racism, and...

We are living in a golden age of dating. Gone is the need to rely on happenstance to cross your path with your life partner’s or to troll...

Beware of those who would tell us what to think; who would tell us what to feel, intend, think, recall, and imagine. What will they try...

You’ve sat upon your meditation cushion and lit a candle before a statue of the Buddha, the patron saint (for want of a better term) of...