Zen monk and garden designer Masuno (Zen and Art of Minimalism) does for mental clutter what Marie Kondo has done for household clutter: pare down and simplify.Masuno offers 100 directives that he ...

Rather then planning a whole day of cleaning (and dreading it the moment it arrives), the idea is to treat the act as an ...

Zen Buddhism is a mixture of Indian Mahayana Buddhism and Taoism. It began in China, spread to Korea and Japan, and became very popular in the West from the mid 20th century.

The Green Gulch Farm Zen Center was founded in 1972 as one of the last requests of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, the monk and spiritual teacher widely credited with popularizing Zen Buddhism in the United ...

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, turns 90 this week—a milestone that's reigniting speculation over his eventual successor.

Ten Modern Mystics and Their Extraordinary Lives” is an impressive work of participatory journalism. Pintak, “an avid student of the perennial truths at the core of the world’s religions,” not only ...

Eido Shimano, the Japanese Zen Buddhist monk whose exploitative relationships with female followers over a fifty-year period were to tear apart the American Buddhist community, arrived in the ...

This for-sale farm was the apple of Steve Jobs’ eye. The 388-acre property recently listed for $5 million and boasts an apple ...

In an age of Y2K-inspired loud graphics (think neon chrome, pixel motifs and holograms), a contrasting movement has quietly ...

And so, he began to consider Zen Buddhism as “the answer” to his quest. Soon, he was involved with a Manchester-based Buddhist group, one affiliated with Kanshoji Monastery in France.

Here are 6 things Zen monks can teach us about finding calm, focus, and presence: 1. Tame the mental chatter. Active and uncontrolled thoughts are like mischievous monkeys, forever swinging from ...