Entering a backroom of the St. Paul’s Chapel basement, where the Columbia University Buddhist Association holds its weekly meetings, I take off my shoes at the door like I’m entering somebody’s home.

Though we've read about it in history books, or have heard about its lifestyle changes, exactly what is Buddhism? Buddhism is a religion that has been practiced for more than 2,500 years starting in ...

2. Open monitoring-being mindful of one's breath or thoughts; 3. Automatic self-transcending-meditations that transcend their own activity-a new category introduced by the authors. Each category was ...

Buddhist monks hold lanterns next to a huge screen placed around the temple to showcase the online devotees using Zoom to join in during the yearly ceremony of Makha Bucha at Wat Dhammakaya in the ...

Two researchers of Buddhism studied hundreds of Buddhism-related apps and conclude that they tend to mask the symptoms of stress rather than fundamentally addressing the root problem. As it is ...

As it is practiced in the US today, mindfulness meditation focuses on being intensely aware, without any sort of judgment, of what one is sensing and feeling in the given moment. Mindfulness practice ...

Weekly group meditations in a Buddhist context lead by a folk priest, Zachary Lui. Come join and drink tea with us to settle the mind and brush off the day's stresses. Find inner peace in your heart ...

A national survey of more than 26,000 U.S. adults conducted by the Centers for Disease Control found that the use of meditation increased more than threefold between 2012 and 2017, from 4.2 percent to ...

Search your smartphone's app store for "meditation" and you'll get more than 1,000 results. There's Headspace, which offers beginner courses on how to meditate; Simple Habit, which features short, ...