YOU may have encountered moments of 'Zen' in your life – like a particularly peaceful walk in nature, or while lying down, eyes closed, at the end of a yoga session – and we all know that in today's ...

To say that our world feels a bit frazzled right now seems like an understatement. Every day, we’re flooded with images of tragedy, divisiveness, and uncertainty that not only threaten our peace of ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. For centuries, Japanese Zen Buddhist masters have ...

(RNS) — In all Zen traditions, meditation is the backbone of the practice. Students sit with a tall spine, hands loosely interlocked and eyes half-closed. At Chosei Zen in Madison, Wisconsin, though, ...

Was the revolutionary circular scroll wheel on the Apple iPod inspired by kinhin, the Zen practice of walking in circles while meditating? There’s no hard evidence, but a new book, The Zen of Steve ...

As a man beats a Moktak, others follow the tempo of the traditional Korean wooden percussion instrument with a steady chant. “Shin-myo jang-gu dae-da-ra-ni …” Words from the work of The Great Dharani ...

“A Reluctant Practice in the Art of Zen” is a song about the tension between ambition and patience. When you’re young, you want to hit the ground running—chasing dreams, making things happen. But life ...

Fires snaked through ravines Wednesday in the Ventana Wilderness to within 3 miles of the oldest Soto Zen monastery outside of Asia, forcing the evacuation of firefighters and threatening the only ...