Loving-Kindness

Jack Kornfield on beginning the time-honored, heart-opening practice of metta (loving-kindness) meditation.

Lisa Ernst shares a practice to offer kindness to your difficult thoughts.

Sylvia Boorstein unpacks the foundational Buddhist teaching “Recognize unwholesome states in the mind and replace them with wholesome states.”

Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward on how to give the wounded child inside you the love and compassion they deserve.

When a car drove over her foot, Carla Beharry felt like her anger would never end. She soon learned that the only way out of suffering is through it.

Buddhist monk Ajahn Brahm shares his personal approach to loving-kindness meditation, also known as metta.

Being our own best friend is a challenging feat. Kate Johnson explains how meditation can help us get to know our inner critics and prevent them from hindering our path to liberation.