For the first two decades of my life, you could have told me a chaplain was a type of boat, a cozy shirt, or someone’s favorite meal, and I would have believed you. In retrospect, this seems perfectly sensible. English is my father’s third language (mine as well,...

My eighty-year-old mother has lung cancer and congestive heart failure. After the cancer diagnosis, there followed numerous visits to the hospital. She cried each time, imploring me to let her stay home. I didn’t listen. Determined to fix her, we pushed through what...

Once a year, in a training program for clinicians at The Institute for Mindfulness & Psychotherapy, my friend Chris Willard and I join a Zoom meeting to answer questions about sharing mindfulness with children. This year, a new question kept coming up: Does...

'Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory. But when they have acquired it, they are already stricken in years. If you hanker after worldly fame and practise not the Way, your labours are wrongfully applied and your energy is wasted.' Buddha...