"Mindfulness practice is very forgiving. It beckons to us to start over again, time after time after time, without judging us for the times we haven't managed to remember to drop in on ourselves."
Mark Williams, The Mindful Way through Depression.
| Shunryu Suzuki Archives | Collections of Shunryu Suzuki's writings, recordings, photos and video. |
| Suzuki & San Francisco Zen Center's Wind Bell | All SFZC's Wind Bell newsletters and Shunryu Suzuki's selections in them. |
| Crooked Cucumber Archives | An archival site on the life and world of Shunryu Suzuki and those who knew him. |
| Historical Buddhism Library | An entirely new way to interact with rich information which parallels how people think about things, rather than making people try to think like a computer. The people who host this application (Mnemotrix Systems Inc) started with a basic Historical Buddhism Library which will grow. |
| Sacred Texts - Buddhism | "The texts presented here are either original scans from books and articles clearly in the public domain, material which has been presented elsewhere on the Internet, or material included under fair use conditions in printed anthologies." |
| Monk on a Bike | Following an important ceremony in 2017, I decided that the time for ‘Monk on a Bike’ had arrived, embarking on the ‘Zen Cyclequest’ in May 2018, riding solo from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., in a Zen outreach effort and as a fundraiser for the Children’s Hospital Foundation...As such, I am currently preparing for ‘Zen Cyclequest, Part II: Complete the Circle’, which will take me from Washington, D.C. back to San Francisco, this time via the Southern route (Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California). The ride is tentatively set to start at the beginning of September 2019, from the Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C. |
| Is Silent Retreat Good for Everyone? | Article by Josh Korda - tricycle. |
| Why Google, Target, and General Mills Are Investing in Mindfulness | Article by Kimberly Schaufenbuel - Harvard Business Review. |
| Is Mindfulness an Emerging Treatment for Addiction? | Article by Judson Alyn Brewer MD/PhD - Psychiatry - Yale University. |
| Zencast | MP3 files. Best if you have broadband! |
| Mind and Life Institute | "dedicated to creating a powerful working collaboration and research partnership between modern science and Buddhism" |
| BuddhaSasana | Nearly 500 free online books and articles. |
| BuddhaNet | Buddhist Education and Information Network |
| Buddhist eLibrary | Free audio, video, images, and books. |
| Access to insight | "dedicated to providing accurate, reliable, and useful information concerning the practice and study of Theravada Buddhism" |
| Meditation Timer | Free Android app. Meditation Timer will assist you during meditations to keep track of time. Meditations can be silent or with a background sound. The app will allow you to define meditation sessions. |
| Meditation produces positive changes in the brain | "In a small but highly provocative study, a UW-Madison research team has found, for the first time, that a short program in "mindfulness meditation" produced lasting positive changes in both the brain and the function of the immune system...." |
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