Combining new age wellness practices with ancient Buddhist meditation methods is a lot like introducing your extended family to your spouse’s extended family at your wedding reception.They don’t always jive. But just like your right-wing uncle Barry and your spouse’s far-left aunt Liz can find common ground in cursing the…
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The 24-Hour Digital Sabbath: A Simple Habit for a More Mindful Life
It’s the first thing you grab when you wake up in the morning. It’s the last thing you touch before falling asleep at night. It’s never out of arms reach. You check in on it when walking from one room to another. It’s on your mind when you’re talking to…
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Meditation Made Easy: The Best Apps for Every Experience Level
Want to start meditating but don’t know where to dive in? Are you an experienced meditator looking for an app that can expand your practice and expose you to new methods and techniques? No matter where you are in your journey we’ve got you covered! We’ve assembled a list of…
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Trataka Meditation: The Ultimate Hack for Bored Office Workers
“What would you say… you do here?” Fans of the cult classic 1999 movie “Office Space” recognize this iconic line from “The Bobs” grilling each employee of Initech for a round of potential layoffs. Office workers stuck in mindless, boring white collar jobs might recognize it from their last performance…
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Professional Sports: Your Instant Sangha
The sense of community found in following your local professional sports team can be as subtle as the nod you give someone wearing the same ball cap as you at your local coffee shop. It can be as thunderous as the home crowd erupting after your star slugger hits a…
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The Best Buddhism-Inspired Songs: A Playlist of Modern Music
Some early Buddhist texts denounced music. Claiming it was nothing more than a sensory distraction pulling practitioners away from their meditation practice. Theravada Buddhist precepts prohibit monastics from singing, dancing or even listening to music. In spite of these ancient rules, there have been countless songs inspired by the ancient…
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Loving-Kindness: Dalai Lama’s RF Switchbox for Compassion and Life XP
Sshhhhksshhh! If your birth year starts with “19” you’re probably familiar with this iconic sound. It’s the soft hiss of channel 3 on a CRT TV before you fire up your retro gaming console of choice. For those of you born in this century, before HDMI cables, you had to…
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Forest Bathing: Modern Shinrin-yoku in the Digital Age
You’ve probably heard the term “Forest Bathing” being tossed around on TikTok or your social media platform of choice lately. But what you might not know is that it’s a relatively modern term that originated in Japan in the 1980s. It has since been rebranded, repackaged (you can almost say…
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Shojin Ryori: Everything You Need To Know About Buddhist Vegetarian Cuisine
Shojin Ryori is the traditional cuisine of Zen Buddhist monks. It is historically vegetarian, and usually vegan, due to its roots in the Buddhist concept of non-violence. But some modern iterations include animal products like milk and cheese. Each meal is typically made up of several small bowls with an…
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Why Film Photography Is the Ultimate Zen Practice for a Mindful Life
Pull out your cell phone and open up your photo gallery. Do you have ten to fifteen nearly identical versions of every picture on your digital camera roll? If the answer is yes, read on. We’ll teach you how to pare down that massive photo library while simultaneously living a…