Life is busy. Here’s a selection of quick meditations to work with emotional distress and foster mindfulness when time is scarce.
If you want to connect with the open, spacious quality of mind, says Willa Blythe Baker, at some point you have to stop trying to meditate.
To change the world, says Jan Willis, we need hope. And hope grows from nonviolent actions, no matter how small.
“It’s an essential truth about life itself: suffering of one kind or another is a natural part of existence. Knowing this truth gives our lives wholeness and peace, as it frees us from the exhausting postures of pretense and denial.”
In Buddhism, compassion is embodied in the bodhisattva Kuan Yin, who is said to manifest wherever beings need help.
Good luck with that. What you can do, says Jules Shuzen Harris, is change your relationship with your thoughts.
Who says you always have to sit in silence? Ryan Winger explains how you can bring the mind of meditation to the music you love — with friends.
Sharon Salzberg explains how to practice basic breath meditation.
Buddhist monk Ajahn Brahm shares his personal approach to loving-kindness meditation, also known as metta.
As a dharma teacher, says Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, she’s told she shouldn’t feel or express rage, but she disagrees.
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