Two researchers of Buddhism studied hundreds of Buddhism-related apps and conclude that they tend to mask the symptoms of stress rather than fundamentally addressing the root problem. As it is ...

Jalice May is a busy mom who works almost full-time at her church. On Sundays, she oversees the nursery during services at Tibbetts United Methodist in West Seattle. Throughout the week, she runs the ...

Bhante Saranapala started his monastic life when he was 10 years old and has been practicing Buddhism ever since. Now 53, the Toronto-based monk leads weekly meditation sessions and monthly retreats ...

During the stress of every day life, when there is a constant flow of turning in papers, studying for tests, organizing time with friends and trying to navigate through the day, having a happy, ...

An author owns a snappy title, and then the snappy title owns the author. Robert Wright, having titled his new book “Why Buddhism Is True,” has to offer a throat-clearing preface and later an ...

Search your smartphone's app store for "meditation" and you'll get more than 1,000 results. There's Headspace, which offers beginner courses on how to meditate; Simple Habit, which features short, ...

(The Conversation) — A scholar of digital religion and Buddhism argues that not all Western Buddhism practice is inauthentic. Here’s a way to know what’s real. My curiosity about the authenticity of ...

The idea of meditation seems simple: Sit still, focus on breath, reflect. But the practice of meditating is rooted in a deep cultural history that has seen the practice grow from a religious idea to ...