Chanie Kirschner is a writer, advice columnist, and educator who has covered topics ranging from parenting to fashion to sustainability. You can learn a lot from Zen monks about focus, mindfulness ...

Recently, The Healthy @Reader's Digest spoke with two married Soto Zen monks, Sensei Koshin Paley ... a simple yet profound daily ritual: "Every morning before I leave the house, I hold (Chodo ...

The zen monk expected a pre-dawn knock on his door, but the news on the other side wasn't what he anticipated. At first, Finnian Kelley, a member of the Tassajara Fire Crew, thought he'd missed ...

In Zen the here-and-now moment is everything. Scriptures are snares for the mind’s entanglement—a favorite Zen picture shows a Zen monk tearing up a Buddhist scroll.

NANUET ‒ On a crisp morning, People to People staff greeted members of the Bulkwang Zen Center as old friends. Because, after 15 years of the Buddhist monks dropping off donations to Rockland's ...

During a recent episode of "Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris," Harris spoke to Brother Pháp Hữu, a Zen Buddhist monk, who made a case about how laziness can help you be productive.

The Zen monastery had been built on the site of a former Catholic orphanage. Though abandoned at the beginning of the 20th century, some of its Christian icons had been retained by the Buddhist monks.