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The Heart of the Buddha

By Thubten Chodron — 2020

Thubten Chodron on how to develop bodhichitta, the aspiration to attain buddhahood in order to benefit others.

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The Big Brain Benefits of Meditation

Science proves meditating restructures your brain and trains it to concentrate, feel greater compassion, cope with stress, and more.

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Kelly McGonigal
2010
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6 Steps to Stop Gossiping + Why It Matters

Gossip can cause trouble in your inner life as well as your outer life. Here's how to rein it in.

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Sally Kempton
2009
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Letter to a New Meditator

Everything you ever wanted to know about meditating, but didn't have a teacher to ask.

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Sally Kempton
2010
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Should Christians Do Yoga?

A few weeks ago, a Baptist minister in Texas started a rumble, or at least a small brouhaha, when he declared that yoga is not suitable for Christians. His point was that using the body for spiritual practice contradicts basic Christian principles.

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Sally Kempton
2010
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Spirit: American Kirtankar, Krishna Das

When one hears a chant like Aum Namoh Bhagvate Vasudevaya, it is not a Grammy award ceremony that comes to mind as the setting of such chanting; but that is precisely what Krishna Das has been able to do—take cherished age-old Indian kirtans to a global stage such as the Grammys.

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Geeta Mehrotra
2019
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The Mindful Revolution

Mindfulness says we can do better. At one level, the techniques associated with the philosophy are intended to help practitioners quiet a busy mind, becoming more aware of the present moment and less caught up in what happened earlier or what’s to come.

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Kate Pickert
2014
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Krishna Das Talks About His Music, His Guru, and His Practice

He’s driven a school bus, dabbled in the blues, and meditated in the jungles and ashrams of India, but today Krishna Das is known as the King of Kirtan.

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Kate Hagerman
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Q&A: Jon Kabat-Zinn Talks About Bringing Mindfulness Meditation to Medicine

To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness. But there’s so much mud and silt layering itself on top in the form of conditioned behavior and self-centeredness.

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Maia Szalavitz
2012
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Mindfulness Has Huge Health Potential – But McMindfulness Is No Panacea

Opinion by Jon Kabat-Zinn: Mindfulness has huge health potential – but McMindfulness is no panacea. This ‘way of being’ is no quick fix.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn
2015
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Although Two, Live as One

Amma’s advice for couples.

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Mata Amritandamayi (Amma)
2018
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