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 […]
Loving-Kindness: Healing Your Inner Child
Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward on how to give yourself the love and compassion you deserve. And send some of that love to the wounded child inside you. They need it.
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 Work with Anxiety on the Path of Liberation
Anxiety is actually a necessary part of our path. Psychotherapist Bruce Tift gives an instruction in how to relate to it constructively.
How to Practice Bowing
When we bow to another person, says Brother Phap Hai, we honor both their goodness and our own.