September 8, 2010 – 9:48 am
Readers may know Allan Badiner, a writer, activist, and professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, as the editor of the outstanding anthologies Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology and Mindfulness in the Marketplace: Compassionate Responses to Consumerism. One of Allan’s other research interests has been the [...]
September 4, 2010 – 11:09 am
Shambhala SunSpace readers recently had the pleasure of meeting Toni Bernhard via a guest post called “Why would a law professor write a Buddhist book on chronic illness?” Toni’s expertise, of course, isn’t merely scholarly: she actually has a chronic illness, and her new book, How To Be Sick, offers her hard-won lessons on living [...]
September 2, 2010 – 5:01 pm
A few people have written me recently who have a spouse or loved one with Alzheimer’s Disease or a similar condition. There are some people in my own family now struggling. My mother suffered a series of strokes before her passing a few years ago which left her increasing confused, until she could not recognize [...]
August 19, 2010 – 11:08 am
A guest post by Arnie Kozak
The cover story in the new issue of Buddhadharma is about pain and how mindfulness meditation can help to alleviate the suffering associated with it.
That doesn’t necessarily fit with what many of us have been told. Madison Avenue — along with a culture that, overall, has a very low threshold [...]
The American Forces Press Service reports that US soldiers in Baghdad are being offered mindfulness as a tool for coping with deployment stress, and in the same report quotes one official as saying that mindfulness meditation can “help anyone, no matter where they are.”
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We discussed him here on Shambhala SunSpace the other day; now the comedian, a hit on NBC TV’s Last Comic Standing, talks to the Shambhala Sun about comedy and Buddhism — and the unique way he brings them together — in an interview recorded just before the Last Comic Standing finals.
If you’ve only seen [...]
The subject came up in our Treeleaf Sangha Forum of tooth-brushing… the Zen Way. As with many daily activities, the simple and ordinary habit of brushing the teeth is just Zen Practice in life. (Think of it as Zazen… with fluoride).
In fact, Master Dogen left richly detailed instructions for dental hygiene right in his [...]
A guest post by Toni Bernhard
If someone told me ten years ago that I’d be having a book published in 2010, it wouldn’t have surprised me. I’d been a law professor for almost 20 years. I could have written a book in one of my areas of expertise — a hot topic, like clergy malpractice [...]
April 28, 2010 – 11:01 am
From ABC News comes “Meditation: Every Little Bit Helps,” a new story on the power and efficacy of the practice. Here’s the story, which includes a video-statement from Dr Roberta Lee of Beth Israel, as well.
This might not be news for some of our readers, but what is newsworthy for us all is the quick [...]
April 25, 2010 – 10:46 am
Yoga for Anxiety: Meditations and Practices for Calming the Body and Mind
By Mary NurrieStearns and Rick NurrieStearns
New Harbinger Publications 2010; 218 pp., $17.95 (paper)
Both Rick and Mary NurrieStearns, the husband and wife who wrote this book, suffered from anxiety and found that yoga practice helped relieve it. Their experience, as well as the experiences of [...]
March 29, 2010 – 12:52 pm
Our Spotlight pages — sometimes called “Special Sections” (though, no longer) — have been updated to include material related to our May 2010 issue, in addition to other articles on just about every other subject “under the Sun.”
New collections of material include: Beginner’s Mind: Basics of Buddhism and Meditation; Helping Tibet: An Online Resource Guide; [...]
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Back from India and Nepal, Shambhala Sun publisher Jim Gimian here shares some of what he saw in his travels, and in an exclusive video interview, speaks to Buddhist monk and scholar Matthieu Ricard about what Ricard considers the central and most important part of his life’s work.
I am just home from a three-week journey [...]
February 25, 2010 – 12:52 pm
Anyone who’s ever done a lot of meditation might think at first, God, does this hurt! It’s true: when you first get into sitting, especially if you’re sitting in a cross-legged position, it can really do a number on your knees. Sure, you should sit with the pain, observing it and noticing it — and [...]
February 18, 2010 – 1:20 pm
Given all of our coverage of the mindfulness movement — in our current “Mindful Guide” issue, and on ShambhalaSun.com and here on Shambhala SunSpace, we’d be remiss if we didn’t tell you about the coming event, “Investigating and Integrating Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society: The 8th Annual International Scientific Conference for Clinicians, Researchers [...]
February 17, 2010 – 11:07 am
Sure, “mindfulness” sounds like a nice enough thing. But are its benefits real? We’ve compiled some of the latest scientific findings. For instance, did you know that office workers who practiced Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for twenty minutes a day reported an average 11% reduction in perceived stress.
Good stuff. And there’s more after the jump. [...]
