For most of us, the recipe for happiness involves some variation of the following formula: When X happens, then I’ll be happy. As luck would have it, X is a magnanimous variable. It can be anything – ...

When I visited 91-year-old UC Berkeley professor of Buddhism, Lewis Lancaster, last month, I asked him how he was dealing with his own pain, suffering, illness, aging, and death. Because I was deeply ...

Is it possible to feel physical pain without suffering? For thousands of years, that question has fueled Buddhist mindfulness practices that combat pain relief by embracing the inevitability of ...