‘When alone check your mind. When in company watch your mouth.’ Atisa Dipamkara

“Be gentle with yourself. You’re doing the best you can.” ~Unknown   For years, I believed self-awareness was the answer to everything. If I could just understand myself better—my triggers, my patterns, my childhood wounds—I would finally feel calm. Stable. Healed. So...

After ten years of committed Zen practice, I decided to do a rigorous weeklong retreat with a senior Zen teacher. I had to arrive two days before the retreat began for protocol training so that I would be in sync with the retreat’s highly choreographed practice...

Andrea Miller: What is consciousness? In what way is the soul a good definition for it, and in what way is it not? Michael Pollan: Consciousness and the soul have an old relationship. The people who talk about the soul are often doing it in a religious context, and it...

A few months ago, despite all that was going on in America vis-à-vis politics and our usual preoccupations with sports and entertainment, it was a group of Buddhist monks that captured the country’s attention.  Starting from Texas, the monks of Huong Dao Vipassana...

With red faces and steaming breath, more than two hundred faith leaders from across the country climbed back onto the buses. Dressed in brightly colored regalia, they’d just completed a forty-minute patrol monitoring ICE in ten-below-zero weather on Lake Street in...