Bodhipaksa shares an anecdote about smoking and meditation, and explores the difference between meditation as a sitting practice and meditation as an attitude towards ordinary activity.

When I was teaching meditation at the University of Montana I had a student called Connie who was very concerned about her smoking habit. In my youth I sometimes used to smoke roll-ups at parties and I sometimes even bought tobacco… Read more

Cambodia’s Buddhist monks, dragged last year into the front line of the southeast Asian nation’s fight against smoking, are proving surprisingly adept at kicking the habit, campaigners said on Friday. Read more