Whether you know much about Zen Buddhism or not, anyone can find growth within its practices of patience, peace, and inner-exploration. These traits are useful for those in leadership positions. After ...

What prompted the idea for the course? I adopted this course from a colleague when I took on my assistant professor position here at University of Illinois, Chicago. Over the years, the class content ...

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Instead of a cross-country road trip, this summer we took our kids to a Buddhist monastery in Southern France. Teeter-tottering on parental burn-out, we were craving peace, time away from devices, and ...

I take retreats at least twice a year as a way to reset my physical body, reduce stress, and remember what is most important to me as a therapist, parent, and partner. In my last post, I shared three ...

“I have a 25-year-old [Homer], and he thanks me for not pushing anything on him,” the actor said of his eldest child More than 45 years ago, Tibetan monks introduced Richard Gere to Buddhism, which ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. Recently, I participated in a meditation retreat led by a ...

For the fourth week in a row, a white ex-Catholic Buddhist sits down to teach us about humility. We, a group of six or seven teenagers, roll our eyes at each other. It’s 2013, and we’ve just left the ...

(RNS) — For some American Buddhists, the allegations of sexual misconduct by Mipham Rinpoche this week came as a shock. But no one is exempt from psychological suffering, a fact that might make it ...

Dharma teacher Frank Jude Boccio, a born and bred New Yorker, didn’t expect to like Tucson. The city changed his mind. The punk-rock-writer-turned-Zen Buddhist does miss a few things about New York ...

(RNS) — The author began practicing Buddhism while in prison, meditating daily and keeping a gratitude journal. He now aims to help other convicts as a field minister through the North Carolina Field ...