Two Zen monks were travelling from one monastery to another. On their way they came to a river swollen with the rains. By the bank was a young woman in distress. She needed to get across this normally accessible river …

When I was a 17 year old medical student at Monash, I went to a weekly yoga class for a while. At the end of the class we all sat in silence to meditate for 15-20 minutes. Other than being …