It doesn’t matter where you stand on COVID, you’re getting labelled nowadays. If you’re on one side, you’re being labelled...
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Koh Phangan is an essential stop on the conscious community circuit. It’s the kind of place travellers go expecting to...
All we could do was smile at each other. My host family, not being able to say much in English,...
A s the American people watch their “land of liberty” get mangled into a version more fitting for a sci-fi...
Reverse culture shock can be more challenging to deal with than culture shock itself. That shock is amplified depending how different the...
The car. One of humankind’s greatest inventions. It has opened up our world, made our lives easier and enabled a...
Before I could see him I could smell him. His smell preceded him by a whole 20 yards. His reputation...
“Road sinking, drive slowly” a road sign warns as we drive from the moist and lush lowlands of Bhutan’s south...
Next time you’re feeling stressed out about something—anything at all—just stop for a minute and think. Don’t think about how...
To sit or not to sit? That’s the question a lot of people are asking nowadays with all the “sitting...
“The person who understands what I have to say about justice understands everything I have to say.” That’s a line...
There’s a lot of skepticism surrounding energy healing. In some instances people test their skepticism by trying it out for themselves....
An excerpt from The Mindful Word’s first volume in its Art Therapy Coloring Book Series, Sacred Circles Mandala Coloring Book....
As I was walking through the Shechen Ogyen Chodzong nunnery in Bhutan with my guides Tsering and Lobsang, a lone...
Wrapped in a white sari, she sat cross-legged on her paper thin mat waiting to die. The solemn look on...
After entering the Franciscan order in 1954, Friar Justin Belitz has since set out on his own path, helping people by the...
I was making my way steadily up the mountain to Bhutan’s most famous site: Tiger’s Nest monastery. The prayer flags...
A plaque at the National Institute of Traditional Medicine in Thimphu, Bhutan, summarizes the root cause of illness as being...
The following is an excerpt from Journeybook: A Guided Travel Journal and Trip Planner to Inspire and Facilitate Your Travels,...
There’s a lot more going on in acting than you might think. Just ask French actor and Plum Village mindfulness practitioner Binh...
As a Canadian I have a lot to be grateful for. Free access to education, health care, a social safety...
Tenzin Palmo got an early start on her Buddhist practice. She first got into Buddhism as a teenager in London,...
With more than half the world’s population (75 percent in the United States) living in cities or towns, and more...
The Kingdom of Bhutan is one of the world’s premier travel destinations, known for its Himalayan mountain scenery, Buddhist dzongs,...























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