Why meditate, and what will we learn from doing it? Is it just about reducing stress or finding a little more ease in our lives? Or is it something more? In the opening lines of the Dhammapada, which is a well-known collection of verses of the Buddha’s teachings, the...

Andrea Miller: You are an executive producer of the new documentary Wisdom of Happiness. As you define it, what is happiness?  Richard Gere: We all want to be happy, but we have different definitions of what that is. That’s why we have these conflicts in the world: We...

1. Loving-Kindness Susan Kaiser Greenland leads us through metta meditation, showing how simple phrases of goodwill can dissolve fear and open the heart to connection. Buddhist tradition tells of a time, centuries before the common era, when five hundred monks set out...

“The wound is where the light enters you.” ~Rumi “I can’t do anything right. There’s something wrong with me.” My daughter said these words quietly, almost as if she didn’t want me to hear them. But I did. And the moment I did, something in my chest cracked open. I...

I arrived in Minneapolis at 10 p.m. I live in Madison, Wisconsin these days, but I grew up here. My mom lives here. My 20-year-old son is a student at the University of Minnesota, where I was an undergraduate, as were my father and my grandfather. I have deep roots in...

The sky stretched wide and bright above the golden cottonwoods of October. Nestled in the ancient Sangre de Cristo Mountains, I felt myself as much a part of the earth as the ravens, spotted towhees, and pinyon jays, as well as the flora—juniper, piñon, and...