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The Eightfold Path of Joy and Liberation
The Buddha’s four noble truths include the truth that the eightfold path is a way out of suffering. It’s not just the path to happiness, says Sister True Dedication. It’s happiness itself.
Ajahn Brahm’s Instructions for Loving-Kindness Meditation
Buddhist monk Ajahn Brahm shares his personal approach to loving-kindness meditation, also known as metta.
Cómo compartir el dharma con tus hijos
Tres maestros responden a la pregunta "¿cómo podemos enseñar el budismo a nuestros hijos sin forzarlos?"
How to Find Balance Through Equanimity
Equanimity protects us from emotional overreaction and allows us to rest in a bigger perspective. Christiane Wolf on how to cultivate it.
Mindfulness with Every Step
Rev. WonGong explains how a rushing mind can trip us up — literally.
Lotus Seats for the Dead
Reverend Michael Tran on a Buddhist practice that can help us find closure when we lose a loved one.
Share Your Wisdom: Your Home Altar
For our next issue of “Bodhi Leaves,” we want to see your home altar!
No Self, No Suffering
Melvin McLeod breaks down the Buddha’s four noble truths and argues it’s not only the ultimate self-help formula, but the best guide to helping others and benefiting the world.
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.