On a trip to Japan last year, one of the places I visited was Kyoto, home to over 2,000 Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. During one of my daily walks exploring the city and its forested borders, I ...

Though we've read about it in history books, or have heard about its lifestyle changes, exactly what is Buddhism? Buddhism is a religion that has been practiced for more than 2,500 years starting in ...

If you want to penetrate the mysteries of Zen, try thinking of yourself as a blueberry muffin. That’s what lay teacher Laura Jomon Martin told a small group of Zen students after a recent meditation ...

SILVER CITY – Nestled inside a walled house, located one block from the Western New Mexico University campus, the Silver City Zen Center has been offering meditation and Buddhism to Grant County ...

Zen meditation -- a centuries-old practice that can provide mental, physical and emotional balance -- may reduce pain. A new study in Psychosomatic Medicine reports that Zen meditators have lower pain ...

Des Moines' own Buddhist temple offers community members a chance for Zen and meditation through an array of practices available to everyone, irrespective of their spirituality. The Rev. Eishin Tom ...

Between Harry Styles' recently released late-night lullaby and Iceland's new #letitout campaign that has people screaming into a literal abyss, it seems there's nothing we won't do to add a little ...

Sensei Robert Chodo Campbell and Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison on "10% Happier." — -- For many of us, thinking about death -- our own, or that of anyone we love -- is supremely difficult. So, most ...

Quieting the chatter can be difficult when the cell phone rings all day. No longer do the rules of polite protocol of no calls after 9pm exist. It is constant. To the point where people will call ...