Building a new health habit is a process that can be filled with excitement and promise. You imagine yourself reaping the benefits of a behaviour you know will improve your well-being—perhaps a daily meditation or yoga practice, or a healthier diet. In the planning stage, you feel highly motivated, purchasing special equipment and books to support ...

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Continuing talks from Empty Moon Zen teachers. Here Dharma Holder Mo Myokan Weinhart explores the 9th of Japanese Zen’s ten grave precepts. In her work life Mo is a consultant specializing in strategic operations and leadership. *** As many in our community prepare to take the precepts in December, where they will publicly vow or […]Original link(O...

Hello, I’m Rich, and this is our fourth module on the theme of living with meaning, purpose and resilience.  Resilience, simply defined, is being able to bounce back from adversity (though it should be noted that “bouncing back” doesn’t necessarily mean going back to exactly who we were before the challenge arose, since adversity can significantly ...

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In 2005, I spent a semester in India on a Buddhist Studies program. For my independent study project, I researched the ritual circumambulation of Tibetan Buddhists, and spent three weeks observing practitioners walking clockwise around holy sites while muttering mantras and thereby improving their karma.  One interesting note was that almost no pra...

One of the words most bandied about during challenges, even before these upside-down pandemic times, is resilience. We hear a lot about our collective need for strength, or our individual cultivation of effort in the face of adversity. Notable books have connoted resilience with Grit, or climbing The Second Mountain, or Bouncing Back. The Oxford En...

When it comes to making meditation a habit, sometimes we’ll talk a big game, but we don’t necessarily put it into practice. But you’re doing that right now—you’re actually taking time out of your life with the intention of using mindfulness and meditation as a vehicle toward living in a particular way, maybe with greater ease and less struggle and ...

A Little TM Story From Northumberland Somewhere around 20/30 years ago, I was in a small market town in Northumberland, putting out A5 TM flyers anywhere that would take them to promote my TM courses. All kinds of shops, hairdressers, cafe’s, police stations, you name it, anyway that had a notice board or a shop window. I came to a Butchers on the ...

If you’re a human living in 2026, you likely have a laundry list of things you’d like to have fixed. Your list might look something like: affordable housing, the global economy, cost of groceries, your headache, your backache, an aging body, the cost of gas, the price of groceries, global warming, and maybe something to deal with occasional self-do...

We’re going to be exploring today a series of different ways to cultivate mindful attention. It’s a particularly helpful practice when the mind is busy, when we’re finding it hard to be present, when we’re triggered by something, or when it’s just really hard to settle. Of course, this might sound like any day of the week. But there are times in pa...

It has been said if all Zen monastics and priests and dharma successors were killed, and the whole of Zen’s spiritual literature were burned; by the next day or at the most, two, people would be waking up. The terms they would use to describe all this would be different and the practices would be […]Original link(Originally posted by James Ford)

If you’re someone who grew up being told that tears are a sign of weakness, or that you should never show fear lest you be exploited, you understand how very difficult it is to communicate complex emotions like jealousy, resentment, or sorrow. You protect these experiences, holding them close to your chest like a dislocated arm in a sling. Just as ...

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation movement has for decades attempted to recruit medical doctors and scientists, primarily in the 1970's. Some of those people, after having been trained as TM teachers, have had positions in universities and medical institutions where they worked, with occasional success, to legitimize TM as some sort...

People often say, “I have anxiety. I cannot do crowds.” For a long time, I believed that was my whole story. But looking back, it was not just anxiety. It was avoidance. Every time I avoided, I quietly reinforced the fear. Anxiety is not a monster outside of me. It is my body and brain sounding alarms. The problem is the software is outdated. It is...

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A woman sits in a therapist’s office in a Western city. She fled her country after surviving months of detention, interrogation, and torture at the hands of a government that wanted to silence her. She made it out. She is, by every external measure, safe now.  The therapist is kind. Educated. Well-meaning. They ask her to rate her anxiety on a scal...

(This article is by my friend Ken Ireland. Ken is an old Zen hand. A few years back one of his teachers suggested he begin formally training for authorization as a teacher, but declined the offer. Ken was educated at Dartmouth College, with advanced studies at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Woodstock College, and the […]Original link(Originally...

Perhaps it seems strange to be investigating what we consider to be a positive emotion, but I think we often miss joy. We don’t actually pay a lot of attention to it; we can often let it slip by without much notice. The good news is, there are practices to cultivate it. And these practices can help us attend to and support joy in our felt experienc...

Part of a recent email (received 3 weeks after attending online TM course) : “As a teacher myself I love it on the rare occasions when my students actually do what I suggest – so you’ll be pleased to know that I haven’t missed a day since the course and have no plans to. I have been amazed at how quickly TM has become an integrated part of my daily...