Category: Advice for Difficult Times

Now is a good time

An anonymous account from one of our readers on how a Buddhist perspective helped her through a challenging period in her life.

Mitra Bishop-sensei, responds to the suggestion that Zen practice discourages people from facing their emotional and psychological problems.

Four physicians and long-term meditators explain why both antidepressants can have an important role to play in treating depression.

For times troubled with everything from Wall Street to very inconvenient truths, Alice Walker gives us her recipe for finding equanimity.

Dispassionately observing what goes on in our mind is one of Buddhism’s central practices, a technique being used to work with mental health.

Three well-known Buddhist teachers offer techniques to lessen pain’s mental suffering, look at its true nature, and learn its valuable lessons

In and out of hospital since childhood, Diana Atkinson on a life cut to pieces.

Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to depression and mental illness.

Sylvia Boorstein on where safety is really found in a life with no guarantees.

You might think being healthy puts you in a good state of mind, but it’s the good state of mind that will keep you healthy in the long-term.