Five Buddhist teachers share practices to clear away the poisons that cause suffering and obscure your natural enlightenment.
About Judy Lief
DIY Dharma: You Have Everything You Need
Interested in beginning a meditation practice but don’t know where to begin? You have a mind, body, thoughts, and a natural bent toward awakening. helpful guidelines for the path ahead of you.
The Problem With Problems
The more we increase our ability to deal with our own difficulties, the more aware we are that we can’t solve the troubles of loved ones.
How to Be a Bodhisattva
It may seem like an unattainable ideal, but you can start right now as a bodhisattva-in-training. All you need is the aspiration to put others first.
Miedo y valentía: Lo que enseñan los budistas
Mucho de nuestro sufrimiento -como individuos y como sociedad- es causado por el miedo. De hecho, de acuerdo al budismo, el miedo se ubica en la mera raíz del ego y del samsara. Cuatro maestros budistas sobresalientes discuten la práctica vital de trabajar con nuestros miedos.
How Not to Freak Out
If you find all the bad news overwhelming, Buddhist teacher Judy Lief has some meditations to help you relieve your anxiety.
The Middle Way of Stress
Life is stressful. Although some people claim that contemporary life is especially stressful, I am skeptical whether that is so. Living beings have always had to struggle for food, for shelter, and for safety. They have always had the stress of finding a mate and reproducing. The world is no Garden of Eden.
Tonglen: A Prayer That Rides the Breath
On the inbreath, says Judy Lief, take in what is bad, freeing others from it. On the outbreath, offer what is good.
To Go Beyond Words
Study and practice work together, says Judy Lief, to undermine ego. They’re the great disrupters.
Glimpses of Awakening
Although enlightenment can seem like an unreachable goal, says Judy Lief, we’re actually having glimpses of awakening all the time.