Category: Mindfulness
What to Do When You Can’t Sleep
Meditation and mindfulness can help you get the shut-eye you need. Joseph Emet on how to feel more rested.
How to Drink a Mindful Cup of Tea
A cup of tea or coffee is a nice break. Drinking it mindfully is a real break. Joseph Emet teaches us this five-step practice.
Pema Chödrön’s 3 Ways to Transform Your Emotions
At the root of our suffering are the destructive emotions that Buddhism calls the kleshas, or poisons. Pema Chödrön teaches us a three-step practice to transform their energy from a cause of suffering into a path to awakening.
What Miscarriage Taught Me about Love and Impermanence
Atia Sattar shares her account of the suffering of miscarriage and what it taught her about love, generosity, and impermanence.
The Eightfold Path: Right Mindfulness
Norman Fischer on why mindfulness is not always “right.”
A Meditation to Befriend Your Feelings
How you relate to your feelings, says Willa Blythe Baker, may be the most important habit of all. When you meet your feelings with grace and mindfulness, you find they’re your best friends on the spiritual path.
Grow Your Mindfulness in the Garden
Cheryl Wilfong on how to practice the four foundations of mindfulness in the garden.
The 4 Noble Truths of Emotions
The Buddha laid out a four-step path to freedom from difficult emotions. Anyen Rinpoche says the secret is understanding why our emotions cause suffering.
The Do-Nothing Farmer’s Guide to a Perfect Harvest
Mark Frank’s five steps to successfully doing nothing — in your garden or any other part of your life.
How to Find Balance Through Equanimity
Equanimity protects us from emotional overreaction and allows us to rest in a bigger perspective. Christiane Wolf on how to cultivate it.
How 3 Buddhist Teachers Work with Difficult Emotions
Working with difficult emotions is a lifelong practice. Three Buddhist teachers open up about their own struggles.
Come Home to Yourself
Your true home is this body. This mind. This moment. There, says Kaira Jewel Lingo, you’ll find peace and freedom.
Heal in Community
Come together with others, says Arisika Razak, to grieve, heal, and fight for a better world.
Puzzle Solving as Meditation
Roberval Oliveira on why doing puzzles can deepen your meditation practice.
Answering the Call to Awaken
Like the Buddha, we all get our call to wake up. It often comes when life isn’t working and we may have to go a little crazy.
Coming Apart and Struggling Through Depression
A moving account by Susan Moon of her journey back from depression, and how her Buddhist practice both helped and hindered her.
What Really Makes Us Happy
As a Buddhist teacher, psychiatrist, and leading researcher, Dr. Robert Waldinger studies life from three very different perspectives. But he says they all come to the same basic conclusion about what really makes our lives happy and meaningful, and what doesn’t.
Becoming the Ally of All Beings
A teaching by Sharon Salzberg on the interconnectedness of all things.
How does a meditator deal with major depression?
The teachers are asked how a meditator deals with episodes of depression.