“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.” (Paradise Lost, Book 1, 247). “Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. What is Zen? This school of Buddhist thought is often used as shorthand to mean anything calm or meditative. The hashtag #museummomentofzen has ...

Though we've read about it in history books, or have heard about its lifestyle changes, exactly what is Buddhism? Buddhism is a religion that has been practiced for more than 2,500 years starting in ...

Zen Buddhist priest and longtime teacher Hagen makes his central point emphatically and repeatedly throughout this book: Buddhism is about direct experience, not about the thoughts people habitually ...

(RNS) — Buddhist-oriented mental health practitioners are an assorted bunch. Some are hardcore meditators fully devoted to their dharma path. Others rarely formally meditate and do not identify as ...

The truths Buddha articulated are not strictly religious beliefs, but experiences that can be tasted by everyone in everyday life, says Batchelor, a respected author, translator and teacher. Here, the ...

Thich Nhat Hanh is a renowned Vietnamese Zen Buddhist teacher who has written numerous books, created 800 meditation groups in two dozen countries, led retreats for U.S. political leaders and was ...

Princeton Zen Club presents the Zen Whispers--a series of in-person meditation classes that are discussion-based and guided by the venerable zen master Jian Tan Shifu, the abbot of Chung Tai Zen ...

Buddhists accounted for about 4.1% of the global population in 2020, according to the Pew Research Center. Between 2010 and 2020, the global Buddhist population declined by roughly 5%, from around 343 ...

Zen comes to us from Japan. But its influence extends as far as outer space. That is, if you count the Jedi master Yoda, who taught young Luke Skywalker such Zen-flavored maxims as: "Do or do not.