meditation

When Meditation Makes You Generous (and When It Doesn’t) - Greater Good Mindfulness developed in a communal culture—so it might not have the same benefits for people who are more independent. When Japanese chef Yoshihiro Murata travels, he brings water with him from Japan. He says this is the...

A Simple Meditation to Connect With Loving-Kindness, from Sharon Salzberg - Mindful This classic loving-kindness meditation can help you to awaken to how connected we all are. You don’t have to like everybody, or agree with everything they do—but you can open up to the possibility of caring for...

Are we morally obligated to meditate? - Vox A growing body of neuroscience research shows that meditation can make us better to each other. Eight weeks ago, I started meditating every day. I knew I’d be going home to visit my family at the end of December, and well, I have a bad habit of...

What you're getting wrong about mindfulness - BBC Companies are investing huge sums in mindfulness programmes for employees, but could these be having unintended results? Meditation has long shed its Buddhist roots to become a secular answer to all of our ills in the West, with numerous...