A three-step contemplation to give yourself the compassion you need (and deserve).
How to Do Metta
Jack Kornfield on beginning this time-honored, heart-opening practice.
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.
How to Feed Your Demons
Lama Tsutrim Allione teaches you an innovative technique, based on the Tibetan Buddhist principles of “Chöd,” to turn your inner demons into friends.
Learn the “BASICS” of Insight Meditation
Larry Yang teaches the basics of a simple practice you can do right now: insight meditation.
Inner Victory: How to do Insight meditation and walking meditation
Sayadaw U Pandita on how to develop insight: examining our experience closely and precisely in order to understand the true nature of mind and its objects.
How to meditate with kids (and why it’s important)
Teaching mindfulness to kids is an “extraordinary way to help them generate esteem, cultivate calm, and deal with difficulty.”
Sitting Meditation Step by Step: Being in the Body, Labeling, and Opening into Experience
The Buddhist practice of sitting meditation has three aspects. Being in the body is the ground of practice. Labeling our thoughts breaks our identification with them.
How to Practice Walking Meditation
Leslie Booker offers step-by-step instruction.
Dissolve Your Fixation On Yourself
“To begin with, just give up any expectations of yourself. That’s a simple good instruction for how to do Buddhist meditation,” instructs Pema Chödrön to those beginning their practice. “Let go and observe without judgment.” Buddhist meditation is about dissolving our fixation on ourselves, on the process of meditating, and on any result we might […]