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Book review: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Mindfulness (Anne Ihnen and Carolyn Flynn) »

You know mindfulness has gone mainstream when there's an Idiot's Guide to it.  I admit that I approached this book with a good bit…

Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope: my latino vote »

  Barack Obama: The Audacity of HOPE My Latino vote   A believer - Like You and Me   As I read "The Audacity of…

The Dhamma Brothers: East meets West in the Deep South »

The Dhamma Brothers: East meets West in the Deep South "Gives you hope for the human race." An overcrowded maximum-security prison - the end…

Book Review: Peace In Our Hearts, Peace in the World (Ruth Fishel) »

The title of this book is a clear reference to the axiom that in order to have world peace, one must first work towards…

Book Review: Dancing With Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering (Phillip Moffitt) »

Dancing With Life is an exploration of the little known Twelve Insights related to the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism.  Broken into four "books"…

Book Review: Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body by Reginald Ray, Ph.D. »

The premise of this recent work by Reggie Ray (interviewed by Waylon last March) is that for all that meditation does, it doesn't go…

Buddhism vs. Speed: Busyness is Laziness, by Dr. Reggie Ray. »

"Busy-ness is Laziness," by Dr. Reggie Ray, from elephant journal's Autumn 2005 issue. Life emerges out of the silence of our inner being. The life…

Denise Thornton: the Dharma of Cancer. »

Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply…

Massage: Meditation for the Body by Heather Grimes. »

"An Essential Luxury," from our Autumn 2005 issue. Try this on for size: massage is to the body what meditation is to the mind. Both…

Peaceful Piggy Meditation: Piggies (and kids) are Buddhas Too! »

  My mom got me to meditate and do morning & evening chants (Buddhist hymns) when I was a child—God knows how. These days, it’s as much…

Shambhala Buddhism’s Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche: relationships, loneliness & “Ruling Your World.” »

Photo by Corey Kohn "What about You/What about Me: A Conversation with Sakyong Mipham" from the Spring 2006 issue of elephant journal. Sakyong Mipham…

Top 5 Ways to slow down Summer: Carl Honore, Slow Food Dinner Party, Shambhala Training, Eco Hammock, Take off your Shoes. »

Top 5 Ways to...Slow the @"#$%Y&^'!*? Down This Summer. There’s nothing like the heat of summer to make you want to slooooow waaaaaay down…

elephant’s choice: Best Meditation Cushions. »

Want to sort out your mind, throw out the clutter, be happier, saner, more yourself? No, this ain't a pharmaceutical commercial...it actually is possible…

LOHAS: Max Simon: The Next Generation of Spirituality. »


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Best Hour You’ll Spend this Summer »

chronicleproject.com has harnessed the power of the internet to archive thousands of hours of the recollections of the students of Tibetan meditation master Chögyam…

elephant journal: The Union of Body, Speech and Mind: A Conversation with Cyndi Lee »

Our story begins, some say, 4,000 years ago when a tradition called yoga originates, in a faraway country called India. 2,500 years ago, another…

Buddhism and Activism: Teenagers Get Off the Cushion and Into the World »

“Wisdom is what keeps fearlessness from becoming aggression, and gentleness from becoming weakness.” ~ the Shambhala teachings.  I am what some call a generic Dharma…











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    The Dhamma Brothers: East meets West in the Deep South