Category: Meditation
5 Meditations You Can Do Right Now
You have everything you need to start a meditation practice: a mind, a body, and curiosity. Begin today with this collection of starter meditations.
Why Do Buddhists Meditate?
Lion's Roar editor-in-chief Melvin McLeod looks at the reasons many Buddhists meditate.
How to Practice Shamatha Meditation
Shamatha meditation is the foundation of Buddhist practice. Lama Rod Owens teaches us a breathing meditation from the Vajrayana tradition.
How to Meditate Every Day
Featuring “Ten Suggestions for Having a Regular Daily Practice Even if You Would Rather Be Thrown into a Shark-Infested Ocean.”
The Benefits of Walking Meditation
Walking meditation, says Sayadaw U Silananda, reflects the Buddha’s injunction to practice mindfulness while in all the four postures, and in all the activities of our lives.
4 Better Ways to Relate to Money
There’s a lot of neurosis around the subject of money. Financial expert Spencer Sherman on four states of mind we can cultivate to improve our relationship with it.
Let Your Heart Break
Kimberly Brown offers a practice for when the weight of the world leaves you angry and overwhelmed.
Awakening Compassion
Tonglen, teaches Pema Chödrön, is a method for awakening our compassion by breathing in suffering and breathing out relief.
Loving-Kindness for Yourself and Others
Kathleen McDonald teaches Loving-kindness, or Metta, the practice of wishing ourselves and others to be happy.
Cómo ser un Ecosattva
¿Cómo responden los bodhisattvas a la mayor crisis de nuestro tiempo? Apropiadamente, dice el maestro budista y activista, David Loy.
No Big Deal: On Metta & Forgiveness
When I first learned about loving-kindness or Metta practice, I thought it was a little weird.
Sleepy Mind, Monkey Mind?
Anita Feng, teacher for the Blue Heron Zen Community in Seattle, helps a practitioner navigate the path between drowsiness and daydreaming.
Is Meditation Painful?
Buddhist teacher Mushim Patricia Ikeda suggest alternatives when meditation becomes too painful.
Don’t Like Meditating?
Lila Kate Wheeler, author and trainer at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, answers what to do if you don’t like to meditate.
Practicing for Myself?
A Mahayana Buddhist who is encouraged to practice for the benefit of all sentient being feels like they are only practicing for their own benefit. Venerable Thubten Chodron answers.
Meditation Leading to an Unstable Mind?
Josh Bartok, a Zen teacher, suggest what to do if meditating leads to an unstable mind.
Still a Schmuck?
A reader asks Sylvia Boorstein: “What’s the point of practice if it’s not making me a better person?”
Overwhelmed by Emotions?
Author and lay Zen teacher Susan Moon is asked: “Should I stop meditating when emotions begin to overwhelm me?”
Practicing on Your Own?
An isolated practitioner asks dharma teacher Mitchell Ratner where to look for community.
Too Busy to Meditate?
As part of our #MeditationHacks series, Vinny Ferraro, senior faculty of Mindful Schools, instructs a parent too busy to maintain a meditation practice, asking: Are there moments in your day when you could check in with yourself?