Shunryu Suzuki was a Sōtō Zen monk and teacher who helped popularize Zen Buddhism in the United States, and is renowned for founding the...

Pico Iyer – British essayist, now living in Japan - writes extensively on Stillness. Since many of us lead lives at a thousand miles an...

By Phakchok Rinpoche These days we have so many things to think about: our health, our family, our work, our dharma practice. When we...

Sometimes we get so caught up with what or who we think we are that we think that is us. From a Buddhist point of view, this is the root...

I was corresponding with someone earlier this week about how it feels to have people in our space who make statements with racist or...

You may – or may not – know about my fascination with words. I’m a word-nerd! ☺. I can easily read a dictionary for fun. And I often...

In meditation we learn to see clearly the cause of our dissatisfaction and unhappiness. Dissatisfaction, we are taught, is just part of...

Around about the year 900AD, an Indian teacher named Atisha came up with a very detailed outline of how we can all practice mindfulness. ...

In Yin Yoga and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Summer is the season of Fire and Heart. The Heart is paired with the Small Intestine...

Think of anger. Anger is the mind that wishes to harm and hurt. Patience is the mind that holds back from harming or hurting. Anger is...

If you see someone you don’t like, remember that this person is a process which is not finished. To see the totality of life,...

There are a couple of phrases or words you will hear thrown about in meditation and mindfulness circles. We have mentioned a couple of...

Once upon a time ... :) ... I read a story about a woman who went on a retreat for the umpteenth time (6th time maybe) and she really...

Mindfulness or sati in sanskrit (awareness) is only one sutra (thread) in the ancient writings, or one thread of many that runs through...

Mixing up our Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda (well, why not?) we talk a little about Yin & Yang, hot & cold, winter & summer,...