Cultivating kindness means opening your heart, with patience and attention, to your painful feelings—and to other peoples’ painful feelings.

Kaira Jewel Lingo, a dharma teacher who was ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh, offers a practice for drawing strength from our family members.

“There is no permanent, unchanging, fixed entity called ‘I,’ Won Buddhist Priest Rev. Dosung Yoo explains in his talk on what causes suffering.