This entrepreneur is essentially a Buddha in the boardroom. Walter Gjergja (Shi Xing Mi), co-founder and chief wellness officer of Zing Coach, a personal trainer app, also happens to be the first non-Chinese official 32nd-generation Shaolin Temple master, and has been a secular monk since 2006. As Gjergja explains it, a secular monk is someone … Read more
Your guide will tell you that, if you are lucky enough to be in Bhutan, you did something good in a past life. Maybe so. Landlocked against India, China and Tibet, and surrounded by the Himalayas, the nation has kept itself to itself. Only accessible via remote mountain passes, modern education only made it to … Read more
The dark side of the moon is on the rise, folks. On March 10, 2024, the new moon in the sweet cereal milk of Pisces peaks at 4:59 AM EST, hours after we spring forward into Daylight Savings Time. Ruling the twelfth house of secrets and endings, karmic reckoning, the subconscious and the supernatural, Pisces is … Read more
Learn om the job. Practicing mindfulness in the workplace can be an effective buffer against anxiety, stress and burnout, new research reveals. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Nottingham in England, suggests that staying mindful is an essential tool for workers in the 21st century. Mindfulness, derived from ancient Buddhist practice, is … Read more
We live in a wilderness of stress, folks. Recent research suggests that for most of us, the first signs of daily stress begin as early as 7:23 a.m. While my therapist maintains we cannot control what happens to us, we can control our response to it and prepare ourselves to mindfully navigate the rocky road … Read more
Who were you before you were you? Dr. Brian Weiss, pioneering psychiatrist, hypnotherapist, obvious Scorpio and acclaimed past life therapist, reminds us, “Learning the lessons of life can be so simple if you believe in immortality.” For Weiss, immortality is the belief in reincarnation, that we have lived many lives, have died many deaths and … Read more
She’s living her best life, thanks to “death meditation.” Repeating one phrase to herself — “I may die today, I may die today” — is the first step in the unique mindfulness practice that Lina Bertucci, a 15-year student of Tibetan meditation in Manhattan, credits with helping her cherish every moment. Next, she relaxes into … Read more
It’s where devotees can meet their babymaker. The Bible’s golden calf has nothing on Buddhism’s golden vagina. Thai Buddhists took golden idle worship to another level after praying at the altar of a giant gilded vagina, which was recently greenlit by authorities following some minor alterations. “We do ceremonies here to provide remedies for misfortunes,” … Read more
The authorities really blew up on them. A religious group is being slammed by Myanmar authorities after they allegedly brought two sex dolls to the country’s holiest Buddhist sites to perform an enchantment ritual on them. According to state media, the group of eight attempted to enter the Shwedagon Pagoda after leaving the dolls outside … Read more