Zen master Dogen's teachings highlight that life unfolds naturally, irrespective of our desires. Flowers fall and weeds grow, not due to ou...

'Clearing the mind via the vibrancy of the body's sensations, and moving with a quality of presence instead of watching the clock, or your ...

Observing nature and everyday life can lead to profound enlightenment, as noted by Persian mystics Hakim Sanai and Rumi. This enlightenment...

A Zen master explains that wisdom comes from an empty mind, like the hollowness of musical instruments and beehives. Emptiness allows for t...

Zen says Buddhahood is not somewhere far away. You are just sitting on top of it. You are it!... It has already happened. Nothing has to be...

Poker is a challenging game not because of mathematical complexity but because of human frailty. You can master it only in a technical sens...

Restore your inner calm and gain your focus; incorporate Zen habits to your lifestyle to eliminate stress, anxiety.

Never mind that some Zen masters have maintained it doesn’t require a temple for any deep communion when even a bathroom will do.

Devadutta, the Buddha’s cousin, tried to persuade Master to step down in his own favour. When he failed, Devadutta stormed out of the sangh...

Zen Buddhists use the story to illustrate the power of what is called ‘mind-to-mind transmission’.

Google’s corporate motto, “Do no evil”, figures in a quaint Zen story. The Tang Dynasty poet Po Chü-I once asked the Zen master Niao-k’e, “...

One has to watch, meditate and move towards a sound that is already there," Osho explains.

Frost once found two roads that "diverged in a yellow wood" and was sorry he "could not travel both and be one traveller".

Consider the question: Is Zen overrated? People unfamiliar with the practice , who've only heard of its cult status among the apparently au...

An eight-year-old boy living in Vietnam, Thich Nhat Hanh saw the picture of the Buddha in a magazine. “I was impressed,” Nhat Hanh, now 83 ...

Zen Bonestells the story of a blind man living by a temple. Being unable to see their faces, the beggar learns a person's character from th...