Category: Meditation
Watch Sharon Salzberg’s “Bubble Meditation”
In this sweet video, meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg teaches how to do "bubble meditation."
How to Foster Equanimity: Sit Like a Mountain
Sharon Salzberg teaches on why equanimity is important, and how to foster it.
Watch as Sharon Salzberg teaches “Street Loving-kindness”
In this new video, meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg shows how to bring the mind of loving-kindness to the fore.
Pema Chödrön: join me in practicing tonglen for Nepal
Pema Chödrön has joined a number of other Buddhist figures in addressing the suffering in Nepal.
Walking: Meditation in Motion
With every step, says Brother Phap Hai, you can touch the Earth and the wonder of life.
Tonglen: In with the Bad, Out with the Good
“Accepting and sending out” is a powerful meditation to develop compassion—for ourselves and others. Ethan Nichtern teaches Tonglen practice.
Visualization: Developing Pure Perception
Anyen Rinpoche and Allison Choying Zangmo teach us how to visualize Avalokiteshvara, the embodiment of perfect compassion.
Loving-Kindness Starts with You
Josh Korda on how to free your naturally loving heart and expand your goodwill to include all beings through loving-kindness meditation.
May All Beings Be at Ease!
In the Metta Sutta, the Buddha teaches his monks how to live a moral and upright life, with metta at its center.
Why I Do Metta
Janice Lynne Lundy shares her perspective on the practice of loving-kindness – why she loves it, and why it goes with her everywhere.
Macaroni Art — Karen Maezen Miller on Joyful Giving
Karen Maezen Miller looks at why generosity is the starting place of all the virtues.
What Makes Us Free?
Insight. Loving-kindness. Cultivating what’s wholesome. And making them real in our lives every day. These are what make us free, say Insight Meditation teachers Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein, in a conversation at California’s Spirit Rock Meditation Center, moderated by Michelle Latvala.
Neuroscience and meditation: Take as good care of your brain as you do your body.
Josh Korda asks: why would someone who exercises choose not to meditate? Good question!
From The Under 35 Project: “The Case for Kindness”
There's another perspective of kindness that is so common it often goes unnoticed: a simple sense of being of the same kind.
The No-Escape Button
Rather than try to escape from painful feelings, Alixa Doom started practicing tonglen at her job at a psychiatric hospital.
School violence: Can this Buddhist practice make a difference?
Could the Buddhist practice of metta, or lovingkindness meditation, make a difference in school violence? Teacher Russell Evans says yes.
Is Meditation Enough?
Sharon Salzberg, Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, and Gaylon Ferguson examine the central role of meditation in Western Buddhism and explore how other practices, such as study and ritual, may or may not be necessary. With introduction by Norman Fischer.
La Bienveillance
From the November 2012 issue of Lion's Roar, Trudy Goodman gives a short teaching on "la bienveillance", the French concept of metta.
From The Under 35 Project: “Smiling at Strangers”
Here's the latest from The Under 35 Project, by Leslie Gossett, about the power of creating your own story.
Deep Relaxation
Soften the shoulders, rest the eyes, feel the breath — Sister Chan Khong on how to release the stress in our bodies.