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The Buddha’s four foundations of mindfulness, explained

Mindfulness in the Buddha’s teaching is a four-part inspection of body, feeling, mind, and dhammas, meant to cut through clinging, not just calm you down.

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Study probes how VA mindfulness app changes veterans' practice and symptoms

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From a childhood pillow to Buddhist inner refuge

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Zen koan on divided selves asks what is truly real

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Zen stillness crosses continents, linking monasteries online and in person

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Buddhist practice helps a daughter navigate faith and family conflict

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Review questions mindfulness benefits for young adults with depressive symptoms

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Zen retreat boosts self-compassion in DBT clinicians, study finds

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Study tests whether young meditators judge their performance more accurately

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Mindfulness meditation starts with breath, wandering mind, and gentle return

The breath is only the beginning: wandering, returning, and noticing again are where insight starts.

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Two new Buddhist children's books bring Dharma to young readers

These two picture books keep the Dharma vivid for children, one through Vesak's public rituals, the other through a leaf's lesson in interdependence.

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Machig Labdrön's chöd teaching cuts through the illusion of self

Chöd cuts deeper than distraction. Rotterdam shows how severance can reveal the self as a habit of clinging, and that discovery can feel freeing.

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Zen retreat boosts self-compassion in DBT clinicians, study finds

A five-day Zen retreat improved self-compassion and well-being in 120 DBT-trained clinicians, beating a matched Dharma-talk condition. The study tested 212 health professionals.

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Study tests whether young meditators judge their performance more accurately

A Mindfulness study tested 124 young adults on confidence and recall, asking whether meditation sharpened the way they judge their own performance.

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Zen stillness crosses continents, linking monasteries online and in person

Monastic stillness can travel online, but only part of Zen survives the screen. Crestone and Schwarzwald show what hybrid practice keeps, and what it cannot.

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Sangha Live streams weekday meditation with teaching, chat, and recordings

Sangha Live’s weekday mornings now read like a rolling online retreat: one-hour sits with teaching, chat, and same-day recordings.

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Bhutan educator urges mindfulness, compassion in university education

Dorji Thinley told Assam Royal Global University that mindfulness should be taught deliberately, as a path to compassion and ethical awareness, not just better concentration.

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Prajnaparamita emptiness offers clarity amid modern uncertainty

Emptiness here is not a void but a way of seeing instability without freezing into fear. The piece turns Prajnaparamita into a practical lens for insight practice.

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Zen koan on divided selves asks what is truly real

A classic koan about Seijo’s split soul becomes a blunt map for modern inner fragmentation, from private roles to social fracture, and a call to stop rushing.

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Plum Village opens 2026 summer retreat on cultivating the mind of love

Plum Village’s summer retreat turns “love” into a disciplined practice, with one-week family registration, age-based children’s tracks, and a candid heat warning.

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Study probes how VA mindfulness app changes veterans' practice and symptoms

VA's Mindfulness Coach is now being tested for more than symptom relief, with 21 veteran interviews showing how digital practice may change attention and follow-through.

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Sangha Live asks practitioners to rest in being through silence

Christopher Titmuss’s July 13 week centered on resting in being, with one-hour daily sittings, live chat, and recordings posted by day’s end.

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London sand mandala becomes a public lesson in impermanence

A London sand mandala turned a gallery into a public classroom on impermanence, as three Tibetan monks built and then dissolved the work before thousands.

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Ajahn Brahm says joy steadies the mind before Rains Retreat

Ajahn Brahm’s July 11 guided meditation framed joy as the key to a steady mind, and he cast it as his last session before the Rains Retreat.

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From a childhood pillow to Buddhist inner refuge

A childhood pillow becomes a map of anxious attachment, and Tara Anand shows how Buddhist refuge can move security from a partner to practice.

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IMS refreshes online learning center with July-August offerings

IMS has reset its online front page with July and August classes on insight, the Four Noble Truths, mindfulness of the body, dhammas, and ethics.

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Review questions mindfulness benefits for young adults with depressive symptoms

Mindfulness may ease depressive symptoms in young adults, but the strongest evidence still points to short-term gains, not a guaranteed lasting fix.

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Pomnyun Sunim says life has no inherent meaning, seeks freedom

Pomnyun Sunim reframes emptiness as practice: meaning is made, not found, and the task is to see craving and self-centered stories clearly.

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New York Buddhists mark largest-ever Vesak celebration in Queens

PS 69Q filled with 33 Buddhist groups, hundreds of devotees, and a Peace Parade through four closed Jackson Heights blocks. A guided meditation sat alongside chanting and civic pageantry.

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Insight Meditation of the Mid-Columbia opens free beginner series in Richland

A five-class intro in Richland put breath, body, emotions and loving-kindness into a free Sunday afternoon series, with room still available.

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Buddhist practice helps a daughter navigate faith and family conflict

A daughter’s painful text-message clash becomes a practical lesson in staying with practice when family does not share the path, with dokusan giving the conflict somewhere to land.

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Anam Thubten says Buddhism survives by adapting to changing conditions

Anam Thubten Rinpoche argues Buddhism endures by changing with conditions, a point sharpened by mindfulness debates over language, access, and core practice.

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