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How Meditation Transforms Criticism into Compassion
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.
Watch: Yungchen Lhamo delivers sound healing and love in KEXP performance
Yungchen Lhamo’s most recent album, “One Drop of Kindness,” is uplifted and unpretentious, inspired and inspiring, says Rod Meade Sperry.
No One Like Me
Lama Rod Owens on taking care of your own needs when you don’t see yourself represented in those around you.
How to Practice Mindful Eating
Jan Chozen Bays teaches us how to make every meal a celebration of gratitude, enjoyment, and true nourishment.
Buddha’s Birds
From the swan that Siddhartha nursed as a boy to the fantastical Garuda—Andrea Miller explores the intriguing role that birds play in Buddhist mythology.
Are There Other Ways to Practice Meditation?
You can bring the mind of meditation to any experience. Konda Mason explains how.
Compassion, Empathy, Sympathy — What’s the Difference?
Sympathy is understanding someone’s misfortune, says Allyson Pimentel. Empathy is the ability to feel their pain, and compassion is taking action to help them.
I Vow to Save Everyone?
Noel Alumit reflects on the daunting commitment of the bodhisattva vows, and how his ordination bolstered his relationship with his mother and culture.
5 Buddhist Practices to Help Tackle Climate Change
Willa Blythe Baker offers five meditations to help accept the truth of climate change, laying the ground for a skillful response.
Good, Evil, and Gaza
In a moving personal essay from the December issue of “Wheel of Dharma,” Buddhist Churches of America member Sydney Shiroyama reflects on the horrors of the Gaza war and what Shinran’s teachings about human nature and the deeper causes of good and evil tell us about the path to compassion and peace.
Loving-Kindness: May All Beings Be Happy
Melvin Escobar teaches metta, a concentration practice to cultivate unconditional goodwill for all. In precarious times like these, it’s a way to listen to our hearts.
What Are the Four Foundations of Mindfulness?
The four foundations of mindfulness is the Buddha’s fundamental teaching on meditation common to all Buddhist traditions.
How 3 Buddhist Teachers Work with Difficult Emotions
Working with difficult emotions is a lifelong practice. Three Buddhist teachers open up about their own struggles.
Notas sobre el “Ser–Tiempo” de Dogen
El maestro Shinshu Roberts nos habla sobre el texto titulado Uji, traducido como "Ser–Tiempo", un término el cual abarca muchas de las enseñanzas clave que se encuentran en los escritos de Dogen.
Remembering Dr A.T. Ariyaratne (1931-2024)
Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne, founder of the socially engaged Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement, has died at 92.
How to Be a Bodhisattva
It may seem like an unattainable ideal, but you can start right now as a bodhisattva-in-training. All you need is the aspiration to put others first.
Bhutan to build “Mindfulness City” in Gelephu
Inspired by Bhutan’s Buddhist heritage, the proposed “Mindfulness City” will cover about 2.5% of the country between South and Southeast Asia.
The Revolution Begins with the Self
Your individual meditation practice can aid collective liberation. Dr. g explains.
La palabra genuina
Carlos Danei Barbosa nos habla de cómo el lenguaje puede ser el medio para expresar realizaciones que van más allá de las palabras.
Come Home to Yourself
Your true home is this body. This mind. This moment. There, says Kaira Jewel Lingo, you’ll find peace and freedom.