Whether you know much about Zen Buddhism or not, anyone can find growth within its practices of patience, peace, and inner-exploration. These traits are useful for those in leadership positions. After ...

If you would like to be humiliated tremendously, ask yourself whether you control your thoughts or your thoughts control you. Are you able to turn your mind on and off with the same seamlessness as ...

Business lessons in adversity. Yesterday was a day that should have driven me up the wall. I watched every photo I had taken from the fall of 2005 through the fall of 2007 permanently disappear in a ...

For Sekida, the attainment of samadhi, a "state in which the activity of consciousness—including all thought—ceases and absolute... stillness reigns," is intimately tied to one's body. The early ...

There’s a particularly memorable scene in Eugen Herrigel’s Zen in the Art of Archery (German 1948; English 1956). Herrigel had come to Japan in 1921 to learn more about the practice of Zen. Once there ...

"Are you new? Where do you live?" Gosung Shin asks before beginning the morning dharma talk at the American Zen College in Germantown. "Yes, I'm new," responds the first-time visitor to the ...