Category: Mindfulness in Your Life
Christmas in Prison
It is hard to like a man who is loud and obnoxious. Bulldog was not only loud and obnoxious, he was big and strong as well.
Before He Melts Away
His son has been cancer free for six years now, but for James Hanmer the meaning of Frosty the Snowman has changed forever.
Many Thanks
Sylvia Boorstein learns how daily messages of gratitude exchanged between friends can bring insight and the inspiration to practice.
Falling in Love
Norman Fischer on sex, family, love and liberation: "The oceanic impulse toward enlightenment not only for ourselves but for all beings."
You Are Not Your Job
This year we have all learned the lesson of impermanence. The plans we thought we were making, the lives we thought we were living—2020 has taught us just how illusory they were. For many of us, jobs and careers have proven to be the most impermanent of all. Yet in these uncertain times of layoffs,…
The Natural Warmth of the Heart
In the difficulties of your life, says Pema Chödrön, you will discover your natural love and warmth.
Karen Maezen Miller’s “The Laundry Line” — Coming Home
Karen Maezen Miller's advice on coming back from retreat and finding mindfulness in our daily life.
The Myth of Multitasking
We have the illusion that multitasking makes us more efficient, but it only makes us unhappy, says Sharon Salzberg.
How to Tame the Wanting Mind
You’re hungry, but what are you really hungry for? Sasha Loring on opening your heart, offering your attachments, and being mindful.
Meditation & Therapy Working Together
Psychotherapy can be a powerful complement to spiritual practice, supporting our inspiration to develop awareness and compassion.
Dissolve Your Fixation On Yourself
Buddhist meditation is about dissolving our fixation on ourselves, on the process of meditating, and on any result we might gain from it. Through meditation, we begin to get the hang of living with a non-grasping attitude. When you sit down to meditate, you can bring to your practice the notion of the threefold purity:…
Thich Nhat Hanh: Be Beautiful, Be Yourself
Andrea Miller’s exclusive interview with Thich Nhat Hanh from 2012.
Practicing Financial Awareness
Laura Jomon Martin suggests ways to identify our habitual patterns and attitudes around money and to foster a more generous outlook.
How Mr. Rogers Taught Us to Love
While he was changing his tennis shoes, Mr. Rogers was quietly changing children’s lives — and ours as well.
Restoring the Mind to Kindness
Sylvia Boorstein on how to rescue your mind when confusion overwhelms it into suffering.
Walking the Path on Water: Meditation in a Flotation Tank
Floating in a sensory deprivation tank can be a profound meditative experience, says Ryan N. Fitzpatrick. He explains why Buddhists might find this plunge into darkness illuminating.
Friends, Not Food
When the Buddha taught us to abstain from taking life, he didn’t make an exception for animals we like to eat. While many Buddhists eat meat, Bob Isaacson of Dharma Voices for Animals argues they shouldn’t.
The Best of Sharon Salzberg: Life, Teachings, Quotes, and Books
An introduction to the life, books, and teachings of Sharon Salzberg, one of today's best-known Buddhist teachers.
Right Swiping
Lindsay Kyte explores the dharma of dating as she follows a friend navigating the wacky world of online dating, and shares helpful guidance from two Buddhist relationship experts.
Snow Salutations
Yoga practitioner Alison Wearing discovers how to appreciate the moment, even in the great white north.