Sarah Berry, The Age (Australia): What's the point of being completely silent for three days? You could just be drinking…
The Venerable Henepola Gunaratana Nayake Thera -- often known as "Bhante Gunaratana" or just as "Bhante G" -- is 85…
Daniel DeBolt: Meditation teacher Shaila Catherine once added it all up. It turned out that she's spent more than eight…
Michael Finkel, Men's Journal Magazine: These are my final words: "Why a camp chair?" I speak them to a man…
Meditation is often thought to help expand the mind, opening up the limits of consciousness. Now research suggests that meditation…
Vipassana—a form of meditation in which practitioners train themselves to observe bodily sensations without reacting to them—has a growing reputation…
Naazneen Karmali, Forbes: Every day busloads of tourists arrive in Gorai, a seafront suburb of Mumbai, and head to Esselworld…
Maarten Dankers, Globe and Mail: I never thought I'd look forward to brushing my teeth. It's not a task I…
Matthew Green, Financial Times: The guru looked troubled. A spry 75-year-old, who could have passed for 60, he usually wore…
Lena Vazifdar, Blisstree: The day I signed up for a silent meditation retreat, I had no idea what I was…