Forgetting the Self at a Party Full of Strangers
How tending to the very thing we fear can offer a path to awakening
Fear
Practicing Fearless Metta
Instead of avoiding or suppressing fear, meditation teacher Kevin Griffin offers a third option—meeting our fear with care and kindness.
The Not-Knowing of Our Time
The dharma invites us to embrace painful energies as teachers.
Living with Bears
We can never really prepare ourselves for the reality of suffering. But we can understand our fear of suffering.
Scare Yourself Awake
Some of our spookiest reads for Halloween
Harnessing Horror Through Meditation
A Buddhist practitioner faces his fears of horror movies and roller coasters with the help of his meditation practice.
How to Combat Fear
The head of the Drukpa School of Tibetan Buddhism teaches us how compassion can make sure that we’re not fractured by differences.
The Terror Within
Fear and anxiety builds up over a lifetime, but we can release our terrors moment by moment.
Faulkner and Fear
58 years ago today William Faulkner received the Nobel Prize in literature. In his acceptance speech—which no one understood until they read it the next day in the paper because he was too far from the…
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