In Becoming Gandhi: My Experiment Living the Mahatma’s 6 Moral Truths in Immoral Times (Sounds True), author Perry Garfinkel sets out to live like Gandhi for three years. Garfinkel, a freelance journalist, worldwide traveler, and self-proclaimed “bon vivant,” attempts...

The first time I tried walking meditation, it was with a Soto Zen group, and I fell on my face—literally. My leg had fallen asleep during zazen, and I didn’t even make it one step before I hit the ground. Not great. And when I finally got my feet under me again, the...

Mindfulness means to hold in mind. To be aware of something. To be present. According to the Buddhist analysis of mind, we’re attentive, or mindful, all the time, or at least whenever we’re conscious. It takes mindfulness to drive a car, eat lunch, talk to someone,...

“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.” -Rilke Last year as the lockdown wore on, I began to have recurring, dark thoughts that seemingly arose out of nowhere. They disturbed me to the point that I repeatedly...

‘One develops compassion for the beings in Samsara, avoids defilement and rejoices in virtue.’ Acharya Shantideva

So imprint the Buddha seal, not the human seal, upon your body and mind and penetrate this openness.