Insights

Category: Meditation

Mindful Self-Compassion

May 17, 2011

What would happen if you let yourself simply be human? Or what if, when you notice you are less than perfect, you are as kind to yourself as you are to others? The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion, written by Christopher…

Brains of Buddhist monks scanned in meditation study

April 27, 2011

By Matt Danzico BBC News, New York In a laboratory tucked away off a noisy New York City street, a soft-spoken neuroscientist has been placing Tibetan Buddhist monks into a car-sized brain scanner to better understand the ancient practice of…

The Journey

April 24, 2011

The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice– though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles.…