A new app called The Way is aiming to help people explore the deeper side of meditation through a single, structured path guided by an authorized Zen master. Founded by uncle-and-nephew duo Henry ...

If you want to penetrate the mysteries of Zen, try thinking of yourself as a blueberry muffin. That’s what lay teacher Laura Jomon Martin told a small group of Zen students after a recent meditation ...

On a trip to Japan last year, one of the places I visited was Kyoto, home to over 2,000 Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. During one of my daily walks exploring the city and its forested borders, I ...

Zen meditation -- a centuries-old practice that can provide mental, physical and emotional balance -- may reduce pain. A new study in Psychosomatic Medicine reports that Zen meditators have lower pain ...

Did you give meditation a chance and decide it’s not your cup of tea? New research suggests you could be missing out on all the health benefits of meditation by simply starting out with a technique ...

It is so that some things are so horribly wrong that it is easy to ascribe them to Evil. Of course, if Evil is the genesis of wrongness, then rightness must be akin to godliness. At the same time, ...

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The seemingly nonsensical Zen practice of "thinking about not thinking" could help free the mind of distractions, new brain scans reveal. This suggests Zen meditation could help treat attention ...