Meditation

I'm an absent-minded engineer; my mind wanders and so does my wallet I'm an absent-minded engineer; my mind wanders and so does my wallet

I fear I lack common sense in life, and this affects my performance.
By Cary Tennis Jul 24, 2008

  • I'm leading a double life

    I thought I was a go-getter, but maybe I'm a slacker!
    By Cary Tennis March 18, 2009

  • Meditation for murderers

    Buddhism without parole, in Alabama's darkest prison. Plus: Hot housewife seeks Asian stud, physics geek goes nutzoid and more.
    By Andrew O'Hehir April 11, 2008

  • Dive-bar dharma

    To attract a new generation of Buddhists, two teachers are replacing the old hippie trappings with a tattooed aesthetic and references to Jay-Z.
    By Whitney Joiner February 20, 2008

  • Minding our health

    If chemo fails, there's always positive thinking, or so we'd like to believe. Medical historian Anne Harrington looks at our persistent faith in curing ourselves.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski January 26, 2008

  • Why I hate partner yoga

    Is having my face in a stranger's crotch really helpful for my meditative state?
    By Catherine Price January 23, 2008

  • I'm an overachiever with a history of abuse and a boyfriend in jail

    I know I should break up with my bad boyfriend, but we share things I can't share with anyone else.
    By Cary Tennis March 5, 2007

  • Why does misery love company?

    I feel better when I read about other people's problems. Why is that?
    By Cary Tennis January 2, 2007

  • Buddha on the brain

    Ex-monk B. Alan Wallace explains what Buddhism can teach Western scientists, why reincarnation should be taken seriously and what it's like to study meditation with the Dalai Lama.
    By Steve Paulson November 27, 2006

  • Divining the brain

    Andrew Newberg discusses what happens in our brains during prayer, meditation and mystical visions. Yet understanding the brain, argues the neuroscientist, does not close the book on the nature of religious experience.
    By Steve Paulson September 20, 2006

  • Lost and found

    Divorced and depressed, Elizabeth Gilbert traveled the world in search of peace. She came back happy, healthy, and with a story to inspire us all
    By Lori Leibovich February 23, 2006

  • Who's afraid of Falun Gong?

    Journalist Danny Schechter says the peculiar spiritual movement isn't a cult, but explains why China is cracking down on it so forcefully.
    By Daryl Lindsey February 2, 2001

  • Roo the day

    Presidential candidate John Hagelin and I come from different sides of the tracks in Fairfield, Iowa. And finally, I'm OK with that.
    By Daniel Kraus August 25, 2000

  • Sexual healing, jungle style

    On a Costa Rican yoga retreat, I got touched like I never could in Chicago.
    By Deirdre Guthrie March 3, 2000

  • The Awful Truth

    confessions of a weekend yoga-ranch lesbian
    By Cintra Wilson June 3, 1997
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