mindfulness & sex

How meditation can do wonders for your sex life

Lea Rose Emery, Bustle: When it comes to the link between sex and meditation, it may be something that you're…

July 12, 2017

Seven ways meditation can help you be a better lover

Although Buddhist meditation was originally practiced mostly by celibate monks and nuns, who were not only forbidden from having sex…

February 14, 2017

New study shows how mindfulness could help women who are feeling sexually disconnected

Eric W. Dolan, PsyPost: New research suggests that mindfulness-based psychotherapy could help women who are feeling “sexually disconnected.” The study…

October 25, 2016

The Four Noble Truths of intimate relationships

Because Buddhist teachings have been passed on by celibate monks, we often get the impression intimate relationships are no more…

December 21, 2015

No more (Buddhist) Mr. Nice Guy!

Recently Euan, whom I don't know, wrote a comment expressing his dismay at a girl turning him down because he…

February 5, 2015

Meditation: the agony and the ecstacy

On the same day arrive news stories about two weird, and diametrically opposed, approaches to meditation. On the one hand…

December 3, 2012

Learning how to meditate can boost your sex drive

Yahoo News: According to researchers at Canada's University of British Columbia and Israel's Hadassah University Hospital, just a few sessions…

November 30, 2012

Portlandia’s Vipassana Romance

A third season of Portlandia -- a Peabody Award-winning satiric sketch comedy television series, set and filmed in (and near)…

November 8, 2012

Radical acceptance of desire

When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out-of-hand. This was…

July 12, 2012

“Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness” by Chogyam Trungpa

As a long-standing Western Buddhist, my curiosity was piqued by this book. Work, sex and money are crucial issues to…

April 6, 2012