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An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle.
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If you approach your practice as a path of love, the rhythms of life will teach you moment by moment how to proceed. Each little discovery about what breathing feels like will give you more access to your inner life and the secret power of recovery built into your body.
To help you learn how to meditate and integrate it into your life, SELF asked meditation experts some of your most common meditation questions.
Not all meditation styles are right for everyone. These practices require different skills and mindsets. How do you know which practice is right for you?
The Stages of the Path, or lamrim, presentation of Buddhist teachings (a step-by-step method to tame the mind) is a core topic of Buddhist study. The lamrim meditations remind us that the process of transforming the mind, unlike so much of our frantic modern society, is a slow and thoughtful one.
This month we have an interview with Bhikkhu Anālayo, probably best known to students of Dhamma in the West for his 2004 book, Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization, which has since become a touchstone modern interpretation of that key sutta.
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On this episode of The Road Home, Ethan Nichtern talks about making a sustainable meditation practice and overcoming some of the obstacles that can block your progress.
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This video features a short guided meditation from the Founder of Compassion Focused Therapy - Professor Paul Gilbert.
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Meditation is very handy for adapting to challenging situations.
Describes the use of meditation to promote self-healing of the symptoms of both physical and mental conditions.
The ancient Eastern religion is helping Westerners with very modern mental-health problems.