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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Art today is often a parade of the self. The Freer Gallery of Art presents objects by medieval artists who plunge you into the world by removing you from it. By Jason Farago WASHINGTON — When the ...

When I rolled over to check the time on my phone, it was just past 5 a.m. Macklin had been crying on and off for at least the past half an hour, fighting a return to sleep despite the patient efforts ...

A lot has been written about the mysteries of the space between, the silence between notes, the gap between thoughts. This seemingly empty pause between two separate coordinates is said to be all but ...