The Sunlight of Awareness
Shine the warm light of awareness on your thoughts and feelings, says Thich Nhat Hanh.
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The Life-Changing Practice of Death Awareness
Why you might take up the Buddhist practice of maranasati, or mindfulness of death — even if you really, really don’t want to.
Practicing Financial Awareness
Laura Jomon Martin suggests ways to identify our habitual patterns and attitudes around money and to foster a more generous outlook.
Discover Your Innermost Awareness
In his teaching on the essence of Dzogchen, the Dalai Lama describes the shock that naturally accompanies innermost awareness, the basis of all reality.
Three questions to ask yourself to foster emotional awareness
In this teaching by Ken Jones, the Buddhist teacher and poet gives practical guidance on how to we can develop a positive response to our misfortunes.
The Art of Awareness
What makes art a transformative practice, explains Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, is allowing the art to reflect a natural, uncontrived awareness.
Meeting Pain with Awareness
Does awareness suffer? How we can meet our pain with openness, strength, and clarity, and our relationship to it is transformed.
Celibacy and the Awareness of Sexuality
Ajahn Thanasanti explains why practicing celibacy is one of the best ways to experience and understand our sexuality.
Motherhood as Spiritual Bootcamp
A survivor of childhood trauma, Chokey Tsering navigates the messy realities of motherhood.
Four Ways Mindfulness Can Transform an Unhealthy Sense of Self
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche shares a teaching on Buddhism’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness — form, feeling, mind, and phenomena — and how they lead us to experience the deeply analytical insights found in the Abhidharma, known more colloquially as “Buddhist psychology.”