If you want to bake cookies that look, smell and taste of grandma’s, then follow her recipe. And if you want to accomplish the Buddha’s...

Actively striving to examine our thoughts is like taking a long hot bath when the bar of soap has gotten so soft, that when our fingers...

If your dark and violent thoughts are a threat to others go to https://www.pcrm.org/findadoctor to find a plant-based Psychiatrist. When...

How do we Keep the Mind Calm? We don’t. For a common theme of the 81 chapters of the Dao De Jing is that the path of the sage is NOT to...

Haters gonna hate, which really sucks if you’re a healthy mammal, for we evolved to value the esteem with which others hold us, as well...

What if sage-hood was simply mastering the Dao’s treasures of simplicity, patience, and compassion to the point that we practice them...

If you suffer from depression it is NOT caused by sin, weak character, or even “stink’n think’n!” According to peer reviewed studies,...

When asked “Is donating one’s body to science bad karma?” I was tempted to explain that fifty-percent of the eight-fold path pertains to...

Why meditate? Ask a biologist (they’ll tell you) we’re subjected to stressors: circumstantial, physical, interpersonal, and mental. The...

The air is crisp, daylight savings time has come to an end, and a number of men across the globe have chosen celibacy for the entirety of...

The prose of the Tao Te Ching is as compelling as it is opaque. In daily life, how is one to apply it: spontaneously, effortlessly, and...

Yes, life is messy. And surveying the seemingly insurmountable stressors endured by ourselves and our loved ones could fuel our...

Over-caring (in an uncontrollable universe) could be painful and frustrating; especially when it feels like an involuntary compulsion....

Purveyors of “the Secret” exhort us to set intention, sculpt imagination, and bend the universe to our will; all in contrast to Lao Tzu’s...

Horrible teachers (some malicious, others lazy minded) have muddied the waters of meditation; concocting or passing on expectations of...

When viewing the twentieth passage of the Tao Te Ching through the lens of our preconceptions it could feel like we are being told to go...

Those new to Buddhism sometimes feel drawn to set up an altar. Some set offerings upon them, some bow before them, but what did the...

Tapping into our inner Hunter S. Thompson, let’s explore the irony displayed in contemporary Jhana training: where we indulge our...

Yes, Buddhist temples could seem enchanting with the architecture, chanting, shaved heads, and robes. But what has that to do with the...

Photographs in Yoga Journal display models in the lotus position with blissful expressions on their beautiful faces. A promise is...