Britney Winn Lee, a four-time author and associate pastor at Grace Community United Methodist Church in her hometown of Shreveport, La., had no experience teaching anyone meditation techniques, ...

The year was 1971. Aryeh Siegel was a graduate student at Berkeley, and he had just learned about Transcendental Meditation, known as TM. Developed by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, TM involved silently ...

Bottom Line: Learn to endure challenges and accept adverse events without becoming upset or growing anxious with this collection of wisdom from the Stoics. Pros: A compendium of maxims from ancient ...

Among today's steady stream of new books on Buddhist meditation, most areeasy to ignore. This one isn't. It is not so self-consciously unctuous as the others. It offers simple, concrete instructions ...

I OPENED Daniel Goleman and Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s Why We Meditate: 7 simple practices for a calmer mind with some scepticism. I am not a regular meditator, and while I have read a few popular books that ...

People practice yoga on the National Mall near the Washington Monument in 2009. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin / AP) Whatever ails you—be it anger, depression, or wanting a career change—there is a book ...

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