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Op-Ed: No, Mindfulness Is Not a Fad

By Ellen Langer — 2017

While it may be tempting to dismiss what some have called “mindfulness culture,” we should not dismiss mindfulness itself.

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Early Buddhist Meditation Studies

In this book, Bhikkhu Analayo, scholar and meditation teacher, examines central aspects of Buddhist meditation as reflected in the early discourses of the Buddha, based on revised and reorganized material from previously published articles.

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Analayo
2025
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Deepening Insight: Teachings on vedanā in the Early Buddhist Discourses

The ensuing pages present a selection of passages from the early Buddhist discourses that provide perspectives on the cultivation of liberating insight into vedanā, “sensation,” “feeling,” or “feeling tone.

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Bhikkhu Anālayo
2021
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The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World

Is it the world that’s busy, or is it my mind? The world moves fast, but that doesn’t mean we have to.

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Haemin Sunim
2025
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How Meditation Impacts the Brain and Implications for Health

How does mindfulness and meditation improve health? Helen Weng, UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, explains that training our internal mental lives can have positive effects on our minds, health, and relationships.

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Helen Weng
2016
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Bringing Meditation to Daily Life

Kim discusses the many simple ways we can bring the stillness and alertness we enjoy in our sitting meditation practice into our daily lives and ordinary tasks.

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Kim Eng
2020
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Mind Science: Meditation Training for Practical People

The record of a day of meditation instruction with spirited questions from a rationally-minded audience, MIND SCIENCE achieves what most books on meditation rarely do: It’s actually fun to read, and it imparts much useful information without religious or mystical overtones.

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Charles T. Tart
2013
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Experiential Meditation and Q&A Led by Mark Epstein, MD

Mark Epstein, MD, leads those attending PSI's 2019 conference in experiential meditation, and takes questions from audience members.

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Mark Epstein
2019
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Walking Meditation: Easy Steps to Mindfulness

Now including online access to complementary audio and video guided meditations, this book features progressive instruction in basic mindfulness techniques such as conscious breathing and walking mindfully in nature, then proceeds to methods for meditative walking anywhere and any time―even in...

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Thich Nhat Hanh, Nguyen Anh-Huong
2019
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The Long Road Turns to Joy: A Guide to Walking Meditation

Written in Thich Nhat Hanh’s clear and accessible style, The Long Road Turns to Joy reminds us that we “walk not in order to arrive, but walk just for walking.” Touching the earth with our feet is an opportunity to live in the here and now.

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Thich Nhat Hanh
2011
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The Headspace Guide to Meditation & Mindfulness: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day

Quiet the mind, feel less stressed, less tired, and achieve a new level of calm and fulfillment in just ten minutes a day Andy Puddicombe, a former Buddhist monk, the Voice of Headspace, and the UK’s foremost mindfulness expert, is on a mission: to get people to take 10 minutes out of their day...

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Andy Puddicombe
2025
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