For most of us, the recipe for happiness involves some variation of the following formula: When X happens, then I’ll be happy. As luck would have it, X is a magnanimous variable. It can be anything – ...

Penny Crosman (00:03): Welcome to the American Banker podcast. I'm Penny Crosman. Our topic today is something a little different. Can people use Buddhist principles at work to help them manage teams ...

Mindfulness is mainstream. There are mindfulness retreats that will set you back thousands of dollars. Entire sections of libraries and bookstores are devoted to the subject. My kids learn mindfulness ...

I first stumbled upon Mark Epstein’s book Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness a few years ago. It was the subtitle that caught my attention: “Lessons from ...

When I visited 91-year-old UC Berkeley professor of Buddhism, Lewis Lancaster, last month, I asked him how he was dealing with his own pain, suffering, illness, aging, and death. Because I was deeply ...

A pulsating cosmopolis of 10 million, Bangkok at times seems like the most unlikely Buddhist city on earth, despite the glittering spires of its famed shrines and temples. It’s tempting to view the ...

A powerful aphorism from Ven. Pomnyun greets visitors at the entrance to the Youth Festa: "Happiness is not about pleasure; ...

DHARAMSHALA, India (RNS) — When the nonsectarian Dolma Ling Nunnery transitioned to female leadership earlier this year, for the first time in its three-decade history, it marked a radical shift in ...