Buddhist Teachings

Jan Chozen Bays teaches us how to make every meal a celebration of gratitude, enjoyment, and true nourishment.

Dzogchen master Tsoknyi Rinpoche shares a meditation to encourage clarity of mind.

The key to unshakable self-confidence, says Lama Döndrup Drolma, is recognizing the deepest truth of who you are.

Trees can show us how to be bodhisattvas. Rafe Jnan Martin draws important lessons from an old tale.

The Buddha who lived 2,600 years ago was not a god. He was an ordinary person, named Siddhartha Gautama, whose teachings on enlightenment and the end of suffering became the basis of the world religion of Buddhism.

From the swan that Siddhartha nursed as a boy to the fantastical Garuda—Andrea Miller explores the intriguing role that birds play in Buddhist mythology.

Richard Gere reflects on how His Holiness the Dalai Lama has impacted him.