"It's like coming home."

A few years ago, I was at a small conference of scientists all of whom practiced meditation on a daily basis. Toward the end of the four-day meeting, during which each of them had described at some length how he meditated,

I began to press them on the question of why they meditated. Various answers were given by different members of the group and we all knew that they were unsatisfactory, that they did not really answer the questions.

Finally one man said, "It's like coming home.

" There was silence after this, and one by one all nodded their heads in agreement.

There was clearly no need to prolong the inquiry further.

How to meditate, a guide book by Lawrence LeShan

http://www.spiritsite.com/writing/lawles/part1.shtml

Business Skills and Buddhist Mindfulness

Some Executive-Education Professors Teach Ways Students Can Calm Their Minds, Increase Focus

Wall Street Journal, April 3, 2012

The Age of Meaning

Digital Rules
Rich Karlgaard, 04.26.04, 12:00 AM ET
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2004/0426/035_print.html
Something big is happening in American culture at the moment. We are on the cusp of what sociologists might call a Great Awakening.  

The quality revolution was won in the 1990s--it's a safe bet that the worst television sets or automobiles made today will last longer than the best television sets or cars made in the 1970s. The cheap revolution is being won as we live and breathe.

So what's left? Meaning. Purpose. Deep life experience. Use whatever word or phrase you like, but know that consumer desire for these qualities is on the rise.

A Monk in an MRI

New neuroscience—as was discussed at the recent Creating a Mindful Society conference—is forcing researchers to take mindful practice seriously. Daniel Goleman reports.

Meeting Pain with Awareness

By Jon Kabat-Zinn, Shambhala Sun, July 2007.

Does awareness suffer? Does it feel pain or sadness? According to Jon Kabat-Zinn,Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction teaches us how to discover a mind of freedom and awareness even in the midst of stress and suffering. We can meet our pain with openness, strength, and clarity, and our relationship to it is transformed.

http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3112&Itemid=247

THE FREEDOM TO FALL APART

By NINA WISE, the Fall 2006 issue of Inquiring Mind

http://www.inquiringmind.com/Articles/FreedomToFallApart.html

Nina Wise is a theater artist, writer and dharma teacher. She teaches a class at Spirit Rock for people with life-challenging illness and caretakers called “Buddhism When It Really Matters.”

A Mindful Marriage, Kittisaro And Thanissara On Celibacy, Sex, And Lasting Love

by LESLEE GOODMAN, The Sun Magazine, JANUARY 2009 | ISSUE 397

Kittisaro, the son of a New York City Jew and a Southern Baptist, graduated from Princeton with honors. Thanissara was born as the daughter of an Irish Catholic father and a Protestant mother, graduated from an art school. 

Both discovered Buddhism as young adults and spent more than a decade in monastic life. And both relinquished their monastic vows to make another cross-cultural commitment: to each other, as husband and wife.

http://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/397/a_mindful_marriage