Archives: LR Articles
Ultimately You’re Healthy, Relatively You Die
Will Meditation make you healthy? Barbara Rhodes, Jan Chozen Bays, David Shlim, and Mitchell Levy, discuss the Buddhist view of health.
Jon Kabat-Zinn: The Man Who Prescribes the Medicine of the Moment
Barry Boyce profiles Jon Kabat-Zinn, whose mindfulness stress reduction program has brought the benefits of meditation practice to thousands of people.
Niutou’s Song of Mind: A Commentary by Sheng Yen
Teachings at a meditation retreat by the renowned Chan Master Sheng Yen on stanzas one through five of the Chinese classic Song of Mind.
The Future of Ice
Novelist Gretel Ehrlich spent a year travelling the world's coldest places, meditating on the experience of winter and exploring the polar regions.
Daughter Time
The time of childhood is going to go fast. I'm doing what I can to slow it down. There's still time for me to learn some of what they see and know and feel.
The Light Enters You — An interview with video artist Bill Viola
Bill Viola captures not just image but experience and shows us what video art can be.
Elaine Pagels’ Search for Christ the Mystic
Who was Christ, really? Barry Boyce profiles Elaine Pagels, the leading authority on Christianity's suppressed gospels.
Koan Practice: The Great Way is Not Difficult If You Just Don’t Pick and Choose
Home to care for his dying mother, Zen teacher John Tarrant discovers what it means for himself and those around him to give up picking and choosing.
Searching for the Truth that Is Far Below the Search
Below the level of thoughts, concepts and even emotions are the subtle ways that life is felt directly in the body. David Rome explains how to Focus.