The monks do as recommended, practicing loving-kindness meditation for several weeks. Over time, noticing how happy the monks became, the spirits began to practice loving-kindness, too, because they ...

In an attempt to escape, one overstimulated writer booked into a silent retreat – no reading, no writing, no eye contact – to spend 10 days turning into his psyche.

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During this time, he penned a handwritten letter to his childhood friend Tim Brown, revealing his thoughts on Zen Buddhism and his desire to attend the Kumbh Mela, a spiritual gathering he hoped ...

The founder of one of Liverpool's most fabled bars is sending a message of acceptance, kindness and compassion in an ever ...

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The Diamond Sutra is a sacred Mahayana Buddhist text whose teachings date back to the 5th century BC. Part of a series of sutras known as ‘the perfection of wisdom’, the book was translated into ...

In the Buddhist language, Pāli, the word for human dissatisfaction and suffering is dukkha. For Buddhist thinkers, all human suffering is caused by desire, attachment or craving.