How to Practice Metta for a Troubled Time

Mushim Patricia Ikeda teaches us how to generate loving-kindness and good will as an antidote to hatred and fear.

Mushim Patricia Ikeda

5 Buddhists on How the Buddha Nourishes Their Life

How does the Buddha nourish your life and practice? Five Buddhists contemplate this question.

John Tarrant

Featured

Come Home to Yourself

Your true home is this body. This mind. This moment. There, says Kaira Jewel Lingo, you’ll find peace and freedom.

Kaira Jewel Lingo

Mindfulness

How to Have Mindful Sex

Slowing your mind is not just great foreplay, says Cheryl Fraser, it also leads to a deeper connection with your partner.

Cheryl Fraser

How to Be a Mindful Bodhisattva

Mindfulness is more than just a meditation practice. Mindfulness is life, and life is love. That’s why it’s the whole path of the bodhisattva, says Zen teacher Norman Fischer.

Norman Fischer

How to Do Walking Meditation

Arinna Weisman and Jean Smith shed light on a common yet often misunderstood meditative practice, via simple-to-follow instructions.

Lion’s Roar

Mindful Movements

Thich Nhat Hanh offers three exercises for well-being, "a wonderful way of connecting your mind and body in mindfulness."

Thich Nhat Hanh

Advice

What to Do When You Can’t Sleep

Joseph Emet

I Want to Tell You About Coming Apart and Struggling Through Depression

Susan Moon

Turn Your Thinking Upside Down

We base our lives on seeking happiness and avoiding suffering, but the best thing we can do for ourselves is to turn this whole way of thinking upside down.

PEMA CHÖDRÖN

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May 2024

Current Issue

10 Ways to Find True Happiness

Introduced by Kaira Jewel Lingo, ten Black dharma teachers dive deep into the paramis, the ten qualities of enlightened beings.

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Recent Podcasts

Meditation 103 with Michael and Victoria Imperioli

White Lotus and Sopranos actor Michael Imperioli is also a novelist, screenwriter, director and musician. He and his partner Victoria Imperioli, a well-known interior designer, talk about how Buddhism informs their life together as artists and entrepreneurs.

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The Wisdom of Desire with Judy Lief, Cheryl Fraser and Jeff Wilson

The Wisdom of Desire with Judy Lief, Cheryl Fraser & Jeff Wilson

Judy Lief, a Buddhist teacher in the Tibetan tradition, talks about how you can work with your desires to find peace. Then Cheryl Fraser, a sex therapist and dharma teacher, shares her article, How to Have Mindful Sex. To close, professor, minister, and author of Living Nembutsu: Applying Shinran’s Radically Engaged Buddhism in Life and Society, Jeff Wilson, talks about the radically inclusive founder of the Jodo Shinshu tradition, Shinran.