Lama Tsultrim Allione teaches you an innovative technique, based on the Tibetan Buddhist principles of “Chöd,” to turn your inner demons into friends.
How Self-Compassion Can Help Us Through the Holidays
If you’re spending the holidays with family this year, Jeremy Mohler has some advice for staying present when old wounds pop up.
Gone, Gone, Everything Gone
Like leaves in the autumn or wood in the fire, all things pass. But, there is a moment in which we can see things as they are.
4 Ways to Heal Yourself with Love
Loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, equanimity—these four loving qualities, says Pawan Bareja, are powerful ways to heal our trauma. The work of healing trauma makes us tender and vulnerable as we touch our history of wounds, sometimes from childhood and sometimes from our ancestors. But those who do Buddhist practice come from a tradition that does […]
My 49-Day Journey Through Grief
After the loss of her son, Karen Wallace Bartelt sought solace beyond the practices of her Christian faith. Finding inspiration in Buddhism, she shares how she learned to sit with her grief and create a sacred space within for transformation to unfold.
A Practice to Work Through Difficult Thoughts
Lisa Ernst shares a practice to offer kindness to your difficult thoughts.
How to Make Friends with Your Beautiful Monsters
Anger, fear, envy—usually we’re ashamed of our so-called monstrous emotional patterns. Yet if we make friends with our monsters, says Tsoknyi Rinpoche, magic happens. We are no longer afraid.
How to Stay Calm In the Midst of Chaos
Sharon Salzberg on the power of equanimity — the essence of complete presence.
Welcoming the Life That’s Yours
Claire B. Willis and Marnie Crawford Samuelson share how when you allow and accept all of life’s experiences, you can fully open to the life that’s yours to live.
How to Water the Seeds of Happiness
Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings were always profound and practical, showing us effective ways to apply Buddhism’s deepest insights in our own lives. Here he draws on Buddhist and modern psychology to teach us how to cultivate the habit of happiness.