When we bow to another person, says Brother Phap Hai, we honor both their goodness and our own.
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.
This Floating World
Zen teacher Joan Sutherland on life’s dreamlike nature and why it should be embraced.
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.
All Beings Liberating, Together, At Once
Judy Roitman unpacks the Mahayana vision. “The essence of this vision,” she says, “is a universe in which time and space are flexible, and in which beings are neither separate nor dissolved in each other.”
Feeling Unworthy?
Author and psychoanalyst, Pilar Jennings, offers advice to a practitioner who continues to feel unworthy and unloved.
Meditation is the Key to Knowing Yourself
Meditation practice awakens our trust that the wisdom and compassion that we need are already within us.
Cutting Through Views: Three Practice Verses by Machig Labdrön
Charlotte Z. Rotterdam shares three verses by Machig Labdrön, the founder of Chöd, that we can carry with us in our daily lives.
Transforming Anger into Love
A meditation teaching from Thich Nhat Hanh on love.
Your Favorite Meditation of the Year
Lilly Greenblatt takes a look at our readers’ favorite meditation of 2020: tonglen, or “sending and taking.”