How your perspective changes after long retreat

Ven. Yin Kit Sik on bringing the Dharma to prison inmates in Canada

The shared experience of life and death

Mindfulness helps us escape negative thought patterns to find true happiness

Exploring conscious awareness and living in the present

Re-experiencing the childlike joy inherent in meditative concentration

Last week, I was speaking with a friend who had fallen into despair about the state of the environment. She is an organic farmer and had just been to Washington, D.C. to lobby for stronger laws to pro

The New Year is a time when many of us naturally reflect on our hopes and intentions for the year to come. It is a season imbued with freshness, openness, and newness—much like the state of mind we cu

“I want to enjoy this—let’s just see where the conversation takes us,” were Ratnadevi’s words as we sat down to begin this interview. And that sums up why I want to give you a glimpse into my yoga tea

There are times when life feels light and spacious, and times when life feels tight and full. Mindfulness practice is a way of life that can help us through all of these times – to savour peace and jo

Sangeeta Bansal Ph.D, a researcher and writer, is also the founder of a non-profit called Mindside, which aims to make the benefits of mindfulness meditation available to all. Mindside offers an eight

A few days ago, an 11-year old girl asked me, “What do you do when you're sad?” As she looked back to her father it became apparent that he had encouraged the question but the look in her eyes made it

Editor's note: Sister Ocean is a Canadian nun ordained in the Vietnamese Zen tradition. She practices in France and blogs about mindfulness practice in daily life on Buddhistdoor International. We beg

Materialists claim that the physical world, which can be touched and measured, is the only reality that exists. But Buddhism sees the physical world as merely illusions arisen from creations of the mi