A timeless Japanese proverb offers a powerful antidote to modern-day anxiety. It advises focusing energy on solvable problems through actio...

Quote of the day: Part of what makes Matsuo Bashō’s words feel timeless is their emotional honesty. Many people today experience pressure t...

Gautama Buddha, born Siddhartha Gautama, renounced royalty to seek enlightenment. He achieved this under the Bodhi tree, becoming the Buddh...

Lord Buddha's wisdom operates at a level beyond time, religion, and geography; it speaks directly to the soul's evolution. Paired with astr...

Pope Francis highlights the symbolism of ashes during Lent as a reminder of our mortality and humility. In Hinduism, sacred ash signifies p...

In Buddhism, the concept of patience is interwoven with the practice of mindfulness. Through mindfulness, individuals cultivate patience by...

At the heart of Chinese mythology is belief in the Mandate of Heaven. The Emperor of China has been given the divine authority to mirror he...

West Lake in the centre of Hanoi is within walking distance of our hotel. What makes the 1,400-year-old Tran Quoc Pagoda nearby special for...

Imagine Adi Shankaracharya as a brand ambassador of spiritual atheism. Others walked that way before him - Siddhartha Gautama, for example.

Impermanence is an undeniable and inescapable fact of life from which nothing that belongs to the realm of earthly existence is ever free.

Atheist philosopher Sam Harris, who is also author of The Moral Landscape, thinks the ninth-century Buddhist master Lin Chi was not prescie...

In haunting retrospect, when the time came for his only parent’s demise, the scribe found himself functioning like an automaton.

Have you heard the story of the monk and the sandwich vendor? “Make me one with everything.” So goes the monk’s humble request to the foods...

The first bolt of insight struck the seeker when he was struggling to relax into shavasana, or the yogic pose known as the corpse: the firs...