The Role of Mindfulness of the Breath in Meditation Traditions
Buu Nguyen
26 June 2025
An introduction to the foundational role of watching the breath on the contemplative path in the Mahayana tradition
Awakening the Buddha Within: The Inspiring Journey of an Indian Buddhist Couple, Part 1
Lyudmila Klasanova
30 March 2020
Living the Way of Bodh
On the Instability of So-called Reality
Prof. David Dale Holmes
17 February 2020
Practicing the foundations of mindfulness
Everything You Need to Know About Flying Monks . . .
Vanessa Sasson
13 March 2018
Brushes with the mysterious Dharma
Ugandan Buddhist Monk Offers Mindfulness Meditation as an Antidote for Violent Crime in Jamaica
BD Dipananda
4 January 2018
Monk seeks to bring mindfulness to inner-city…
A Small and Precious Miracle
Sister Ocean
4 November 2016
My first meditation retreat was in 2004, in Ladakh, northern India, at the far western end of the Himalayas. Our meditation hall was an army
Cognitive Ease and Mantra Recitation
Malcolm Hunt
7 October 2016
Recently, I was sitting on a train coming back home from Sydney Central and couldn’t help but overhear a conversation between a teenaged girl and
Procrastination, Determination, and Compassion
Sister Ocean
7 October 2016
I’ve known people who go to a single meditation retreat and when they return home they start sitting an hour in the morning and an
Approaching Chan, Part 2: The Two Streams of Chan Contemplative Practices
Ven. Guo-Xing
26 August 2016
When Chan Buddhist practices were first transmitted to China, they were the same as those practiced in India. Over time, however, the contemplative practices (禪觀)
Approaching Chan, Part 1
Ven. Guo-Xing
29 July 2016
This article is the first in a series of three that seeks to explain some of the subtleties of Chan Buddhism for newcomers to the
Indiana Buddhist Temple: Spreading the Light of Compassion across America’s Heartland
Harsha Menon, MA, MFA
27 May 2016
For Indiana Buddhist Temple member Bruce Allen, the Buddhist path began with a water lily start: “I came to know Indiana Buddhist Temple in a
Buddhistdoor View—Being With Smartphones and Being With Ourselves
Buddhistdoor Global
27 May 2016
It’s a peculiar time we live in when people need to be motivated by a competition to simply do nothing. An event in Seoul called