Category: Loving-Kindness
Am I practicing guilt or generosity?
The teachers tackle the question of guilt versus generosity as motivation for helping others.
Visualizing Love
A meditation practice from Sangye Khadro on visualizing Maitreya in order to cultivate loving-kindness.
How Meditation Helps in Difficult Times
Pema Chödrön on four ways that meditation helps us deal with difficulty.
Mindfulness, Love, and Relationship: Polly Young-Eisendrath on “The Training of Love”
Polly Young-Eisendrath on the training of love: "The potential for love is present, but the requirements are actually quite demanding."
Loving-Kindness is the Best Medicine
The mind that is calm, joyful, and deeply loving, says Tulku Thondup Rinpoche, is the foundation of true health and healing.
Love’s Garden
Peggy Rowe and Larry Ward reflect on the practice of metta, loving-kindness, reflected in the Buddhist imagery of the lotus flower.
The Only Choice is Kindness
“Life is so difficult, how can we be anything but kind”—it was these words that inspired Sylvia Boorstein to follow the Buddhist path.
Good Medicine For This World
Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön and novelist Alice Walker on how tonglen meditation practice opens our heart, expands our vision, and plants the seeds of love in our lives.
Sharon Salzberg and Alice Walker: The Power of Loving-Kindness
The thing about love that I've discovered in my life is that one love leads to another. It just gets bigger and bigger. You can let it start anywhere; it can be really tiny.