Take a few minutes to develop your sense of awe for the circle of life in this mediation with Dacher Keltner. Dacher Keltner is the host of the Greater Good Science Center’s award-winning podcast, The ...

Mindfulness is increasingly being seen as a way to improve business and leadership practices. Businesses have been using it as part of a broader effort to bring humanistic thinking to management by ...

Contemplating impermanence and death helps to prevent the emergence of temporal negative mental states such as greed, ignorance, hatred, pride, jealousy, and other negative states of mind that cause ...

A fundamental concept of Buddhism is impermanence, which I believe, once embraced, helps cultivate positive well being. The gentle Vietnamese Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, reminds us: “Impermanence ...

Buddhist monks have the most insane work ethic. They spend a very significant part of their days meditating. That cannot be easy to do over and over again, their entire lives. And I realized that the ...

How do you feel about the idea of dying? Is it something you think about often? Or does it make you feel anxious? If sex was a taboo in the 19th century, death is a taboo of the modern age. Most of us ...

A Buddhist meditation hall at the remote Tassajara Mountain Zen Center in Central California burned down just as practitioners were in the home stretch of a sequestered, three-month meditation program ...