
How We Live

Lama Padma Samten talks with Buddhist youth about practicing the five wisdoms to improve our lives and transform the world.

Why We Look for Happiness in the Wrong Places
Meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg discusses how our yearning for happiness can support us in our journey toward freedom—and why we tend to search for it in the wrong places.

5 Teachings on Letting Go
Because now is as good a time as any

Personal Reflections How We Live
Happiness Moment by Moment
How letting go of any illusion of control allows us to find happiness amid life’s inevitable ups and downs.

Sitting with the Things I Came to Practice to Get Away From
How my spiritual practice deepened when I finally stopped trying to suppress, push away, and deny the pain in my life

Overcoming Negative Self-Talk
We shouldn’t take the negative voices in our heads personally.

Personal Reflections How We Live
Notes from a Buddhist Sommelier
How a hospitality professional reconciles right livelihood with an arguably hedonistic job

We Don’t Want to Miss This
To turn toward a spiritual path is to decide that we’re no longer content to face beauty with blindness. It’s to choose to see what we couldn’t see.

The Incredible Lightness of Quitting Twitter
A novelist reflects on the self-destruction of her blue-check account.

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