Category: Loving-Kindness
How to Practice Loving-Kindness
Joanna Hardy teaches us the famed Buddhist practice of metta – offering love to ourselves and others.
The Buddhist Chef will show you how to make mouth-watering, compassionate food
Andrea Miller interviews vegan chef Jean-Philippe Cyr, also known as The Buddhist Chef, about cultivating compassion for everyone — including animals.
Metta for Refugees
Zen priest Liên Shutt teaches a short meditation to foster compassion for beings in search of refuge.
Practicing Kindness in the Inner City
City life offers many opportunities to practice kindness. Dzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche on how urban living can open our hearts.
Metta (Loving-Kindness) Meditation for Kids
You’re never too young to practice loving-kindness. Gail Silver on how to teach metta to your kids.
Watch the trailer for a new documentary on the late comedian and Buddhist Mike DeStefano
Mike DeStefano's memory is to get a much-deserved bump, thanks to the pending release of a documentary about him.
Three Means to Peace: Mindfulness, Compassion, and Wisdom
Joseph Goldstein on how three principles of meditation can be applied to the world's conflicts.
Transforming the Heart of Suffering
In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.
Can you measure compassion?
In a new paper, researchers have proposed a scale for measuring the Buddhist virtues of loving-kindness and compassion.
We Are All Wayfarers
It's very easy to get annoyed, says Syvlia Boorstein. "Particularly with our loved ones."
Sylvia Boorstein Reads the Buddha’s Teachings on Loving-kindness
Recorded at 2017 Lion's Roar Annual Retreat, "Boundless Love."
Tonglen: Bad In, Good Out
A teaching on Tonglen practice by Pema Chödrön, and how it begins by taking in our own suffering before we can help others.
A Meditation for Working with Post-Charlottesville Stress
Mushim Patricia Ikeda gives instruction in Metta meditation, which can help us foster feelings of loving-kindness, or good will.
Good Heart
A good heart is the source of all happiness, says His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and we can all be good-hearted with some effort. But better still, he says, is to have bodhichitta—a good heart imbued with wisdom.
Developing the Mind of Great Capacity
A teaching on practices to generate bodhichitta by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Start With a Flower: Alice Walker & Sharon Salzberg in Conversation
A conversation about loving-kindness between Sharon Salzberg and Alice Walker.
Loving the Many Sides of You
Susan Piver shares her practice for loving all of your imperfections and contradictions.
In With the Bad Air, Out With the Good
Gehlek Rinpoche on the practice of tonglen, the way to awaken bodhimind by doing exactly the opposite of what your ego wants.
A Meditation for Extending Loving-kindness
Charles Suhor guides you through a “Connectedness Meditation.”
The Practice of Being Love
Awash in the pain of betrayal and a failed marriage, Laura Munson practices Pema Chödrön’s teachings on loving-kindness. It’s hard but it helps.