Our brains hum with electricity. Tiny pulses fire when we are awake, when we concentrate and when we sleep. But what happens when we do something deceptively simple — when we sit in stillness and ...

Bhante Saranapala started his monastic life when he was 10 years old and has been practicing Buddhism ever since. Now 53, the Toronto-based monk leads weekly meditation sessions and monthly retreats ...

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An insidious illness is quietly taking hold of American youth, affecting their mental and physical health in ways we are just beginning to understand. Known as peniaphobia—the intense fear of becoming ...

The morning of 9/11, I was on the rooftop of my building in Manhattan when someone ran up yelling that one of the towers had been hit. As we looked over to where the Twin Towers rose out of the sky, ...