The Essential Guide to Buddhist Teachings on Mindfulness

Mindfulness is being purposefully aware, without judgement, of what is happening in your mind, body, and environment in the present moment. Buddhists have been teaching and practicing mindfulness for thousands of years, with “right mindfulness” being the seventh step on the Buddha’s Eightfold Path to awakening. Here, Diana Winston, Gaylon Ferguson, Anushka Fernandopulle, and more dive into the practice, foundation, and application of mindfulness in our everyday lives.

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Mindfulness: The Power of Awareness

Diana Winston on how to use the tools of mindfulness to work with negative patterns like shame, guilt, and self-criticism that stand in the way of caring for and liking yourself.

What Mindfulness Is (Not)

You can’t reduce mindfulness to just a single idea. Andrew Olendzki unpacks its many meanings in classical Buddhism.

Buddha shakyamuni sculpture in wood and lacquer.

More Truth, Less Suffering

Anushka Fernandopulle on how mindfulness reduces the suffering caused by our collective sense of separation.

The Four Foundations of Mindfulness

Insight Meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein examines a key teaching from the Satipatthana Sutta, the Buddha’s discourse on the four foundations of mindfulness, which he called the direct path to liberation.

Mindfulness is the Best Medicine

Medicine Buddha. Photo by/via geraldford

After 13 years as a Buddhist nun, Sister Dang Nghiem looks back on her medical career and realizes monastic practice and medicine aren’t that different.

Here, Now, Aware: The Power of Mindfulness

It’s the essence of the contemplative path and the key to transforming our lives. Insight Meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein describes this simple yet profound expression of our mind’s natural awareness.

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Buddha shakyamuni sculpture in wood and lacquer.

More Truth, Less Suffering

Anushka Fernandopulle on how mindfulness reduces the suffering caused by our collective sense of separation.

The Four Foundations of Mindfulness

Insight Meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein examines a key teaching from the Satipatthana Sutta, the Buddha’s discourse on the four foundations of mindfulness, which he called the direct path to liberation.

Mindfulness: The Power of Awareness

Diana Winston on how to use the tools of mindfulness to work with negative patterns like shame, guilt, and self-criticism that stand in the way of caring for and liking yourself.

What Mindfulness Is (Not)

You can’t reduce mindfulness to just a single idea. Andrew Olendzki unpacks its many meanings in classical Buddhism.

Mindfulness is the Best Medicine

Medicine Buddha. Photo by/via geraldford

After 13 years as a Buddhist nun, Sister Dang Nghiem looks back on her medical career and realizes monastic practice and medicine aren’t that different.

Here, Now, Aware: The Power of Mindfulness

It’s the essence of the contemplative path and the key to transforming our lives. Insight Meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein describes this simple yet profound expression of our mind’s natural awareness.

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