Tens of times a day, Diana Winston’s two-year-old daughter helps her practice letting go.
Where Is My Brother?
As his brother’s mind deteriorates, Cary Groner grapples with troubling questions about the ephemerality of the self.
What Children Teach Us
Lion’s Roar magazine’s Andrea Miller appreciates the beginner’s mind of a child.
No Big Deal: On Metta & Forgiveness
When I first learned about loving-kindness or Metta practice, I thought it was a little weird.
Before He Melts Away
His son has been cancer free for six years now, but for James Hanmer the meaning of Frosty the Snowman has changed forever.
Falling in Love
Norman Fischer on sex, family, love and liberation: “The oceanic impulse toward enlightenment not only for ourselves but for all beings.”
A Mom’s Perspective on Metta
Here’s the latest piece from The Under 35 Project, by Subha Srinivasan, about finding her identity as a mother.
Hello, It’s Halloween
What do you want to be for Halloween? Who do you want to be in life? Ira Sukrungruang on the costumes we wear.
“What’s Best for Him?” and Other Koans of Life Today
A koan can be anything that disrupts our usual way of being. Have you noticed that happens a lot in life? Eve Myonen Marko and Wendy Egyoku Nakao explain how we can use our personal koans to experience reality in a new way.
Not Too Strict, Not Too Loose
Nuanprang Snitbhan on the middle way of parenting.