Step-by-step instructions on how to do Vipassana Insight Meditation — the foundation of all Buddhist meditations — from the late master Sayadaw U Pandita. What is Vipassana? Vipassana, or insight meditation, is the practice of continued close attention to sensation, through which one ultimately sees the true nature of existence. It is believed to be […]
A Bodhicitta Practice
Photo by Andy Karr.Pema Chödrön offers a bodhicitta practice for generating love and compassion for all human beings.
Discovering the True Nature of Mind
Photo by Olivier Riché.Geshe Tenzin Wangyal teaches us a Dzogchen meditation that goes from contemplating our worst enemy to the discovery that mind is empty, clear and blissful.
R is for Recipes
Ema Datse. Photo by Juan Carlos Madrigal.Noa Jones says that Bhutanese home cooking will leave diners breathing hot balls of fire.
Stay with the Soft Spot of Bodhichitta
Pema Chödrön on how to awaken bodhichitta—enlightened heart and mind—the essence of all Buddhist practice.
The Great Love
Photo by tsoilanc1.As well as its famed doctrines of emptiness and nonattachment, the heart of Buddhism is the love and compassion we feel toward all beings.
We Cannot Stop the Hail, But We Can be Awake
On how the famed Buddhist poet and artist Rengetsu took up the tragedies in her life and transformed them, by Bonnie Myotai Treace.
How to Study the Dharma
Understanding Buddhism, says Reginald Ray, takes place in stages of ever-deepening and more direct experience.
Nonexistent But Precious
Sylvia Boorstein looks at the paradoxes and subtleties in the central Buddhist concept of no-self.