Place your mind on the needle dipping in and out of the fabric, says Cyndi Lee. If you space out, the stitches will go crooked, and that will wake you up.
When Zenju Earthlyn Manuel was assigned to clean the Zen temple, she felt generations of oppression rise in her. Conversing with her ancestors about what this work really meant helped her see how it could be healing.
Sometimes we’re committed to our meditation practice and sometimes we drift away. No matter what, Matthew Kohut believes we can always find our way home to the cushion.
If you use your difficulties to create art, says Ruth Ozeki, it will give them meaning.
Jack Kornfield teaches us the transformative mindfulness practice known as “RAIN.”
Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu shows us how we can truly connect with others with the Zulu practice of Sawubona.
According to Pema Chödrön, love and compassion are like the weak spots in the walls of ego.
Shamatha meditation is the foundation of Buddhist practice. Lama Rod Owens teaches us a version from the Vajrayana tradition.
You don’t have a surface public self and a private inner self, nor do you have one true, unchanging self. What you have, says Barry Magid, is multiple shifting self-states—and they can get along just fine.
Sandy Boucher on the dharma of friendship, grief, and macaroni.
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