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Wildmind's blogs are where you'll find book reviews, commentary, podcasts, and articles that don't fit neatly into the more structured guides to meditation that you'll find on the main part of the site. Articles are arranged below by date, and you can also browse by author and category using the links on the left.

Meditaton zeitgeist, Jan 6, 2009

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ZeitgeistA not-entirely-random selection of blog posts on meditation.

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Meditation in recovery: Mudita (Sympathetic Joy)
When is a retreat not a retreat?
5-a-day for the mind
Meditation and the neuroscience of inner peace

Contact with nature helps kids with ADD

Reported by: Meditation News

A dose of nature shows some help for children’s concentration skills. Results of the small study have been published in the August issue of The Journal of Attention Disorders. WHYY Morning Edition’s Brenda Jorett talked with Dr. Dan Gottlieb. Listen to the podcast (5 minutes, 24 seconds)

Meditation zeitgeist, Dec 9, 2008

Meditation zeitgeist, Oct 29, 2008

Study suggests Zen meditation can ease a turbulent mind

Reported by: Meditation News

kansascity.com: Zen Buddhist meditation may help treat depression, attention deficit disorder and anxiety, among other maladies. Mental illness such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression are characterized in part by “excessive rumination” or runaway thoughts. Zen meditators show an enhanced ability to control their mind’s focus and disentangle it from distracting or harmful preoccupations. Read more here.

Meditation zeitgeist, Oct 6, 2008

Healing the mind’s wounds

Contributed by: Vimalasara

ButterflyHow do we heal wounds in the mind? Author and performer Vimalasara offers advice, and a poem.

Every time we have a thought tinged with ill will, jealousy, anger, hatred or revenge, we are self-harming, and we are causing a wound to the mind. Whether the thought be about ourselves or another being, or an inanimate object, we are injuring the mind.

Lama Rangdrol, at a talk in the Bay Area, spoke about how we don’t … Click to read more »

Meditation zeitgeist, Aug 25, 2008

Meditation zeitgeist, August 19, 2008

Meditation zeitgeist, 28 July, 2008