
How to Practice Metta for a Troubled Time
Mushim Patricia Ikeda teaches us how to generate loving-kindness and good will as an antidote to hatred and fear.
Mushim Patricia Ikeda teaches us how to generate loving-kindness and good will as an antidote to hatred and fear.
The simple act of stopping, says Pema Chödrön, is the best way to cultivate our good qualities. Here are five ways meditation makes us better people.
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Jack Kornfield on beginning this time-honored, heart-opening practice.
Zen teacher Joan Sutherland on life’s dreamlike nature and why it should be embraced.
Mushim Patricia Ikeda teaches us how to generate loving-kindness and good will as an antidote to hatred and fear.
Author and psychoanalyst, Pilar Jennings, offers advice to a practitioner who continues to feel unworthy and unloved.
Meditation practice awakens our trust that the wisdom and compassion that we need are already within us.
Charlotte Z. Rotterdam shares three verses by Machig Labdrön, the founder of Chöd, that we can carry with us in our daily lives.
Buddhist teacher Lama Tsomo shares a guided tonglen meditation to cultivate compassion and move from
Jack Kornfield on beginning this time-honored, heart-opening practice.
“I pray for your success in meeting the challenges that lie ahead in fulfilling the hopes and aspirations of all Americans,” His Holiness writes.
Pema Chödrön nos enseña “tomar y dar,” una práctica budista antigua para desarrollar compasión. Con cada inhalación, tomamos el dolor de otros. Con cada exhalación, enviamos alivio.
Cuando estaba compilando la antología Buddha’s Daughters: Teachings from Women Who Are Shaping Buddhism in the West [Las hijas de Buda: enseñanzas de las mujeres que están dando forma al budismo en Occidente], una de las primeras maestras que pensé en incluir fue Judy Lief, ya que sus enseñanzas son algunas de las más notablemente esclarecedoras, relevantes y también fácilmente disfrutables.
Roshi Joan Halifax reflects on the idea of “wise hope” and why we should open ourselves to it.