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On Your Mark, Get Set… Don’t Go

Chönyi Taylor presents a meditation to familiarize yourself with the triggers that set off addictive behaviors.

To heal our painful habits, we need to turn attention inward and reconnect with our experience through stillness, silence, and spaciousness.

Given how difficult Buddhist teachers can be to locate, trust, understand, accept, admire, and follow, are they even necessary?

Chan Master Sheng Yen reminds us not to be discouraged that we haven’t attained enlightenment. After all, we’re only human.

Adeline Van Waning takes us inside a groundbreaking study that explores the effects of meditation on the brain and one’s overall well-being.

Jon Clark happened upon a Buddhist book that changed his life. Now he’s bringing the dharma to others who have fallen on hard times.

Bernie Glassman, Carolyn Rose Gimian, and Norman Fischer look at how humor not only lightens our load but deepens our practice.

Logan Beaudry muses about love, illusions, and Leonard Cohen during a sesshin with Sasaki Roshi—and ponders why Oliver Stone was there too.

Andrea Miller profiles Thich Nhat Hanh's American branch of the Plum Village sangha, the Deer Park Monastery in Escondido, California.

Rafe Martin recounts a personal story of the feeling of nothingness while motorcycling on a rainy day.