What’s Left? A Practice for Understanding Impermanence
This exercise illuminates the insubstantial nature of body and mind
Awareness
The Burden of Awareness
When we face suffering, we have the choice to focus on the love we see as much as the pain.
Meditation Meditation Month 2020
Tiny Gathas
When we practice awareness, something as simple as checking the weather app becomes a gentle nudge toward awakening.
Nothing Is Outside of Awareness
Some simple questions to better grasp the meaning of “form and emptiness”
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Overcoming the Vortex of Desire
Getting to know your cravings can weaken their control over you.
Personal Reflections Reflections
We are in Training to Be Nobody Special
A writer and Buddhist teacher reflects on the lessons she’s learned about not insisting on her specialness.
How to Practice Effortless Mindfulness
Effortless mindfulness, the next step in mindfulness training, taps into an awake awareness that is naturally available to us.
Meditation Meditation Instructions
Breathless
Sooner or later, whether from panic or in our final hour, each of us will find ourselves breathless. A former neuropsychologist offers three tips for when awareness of breath becomes difficult or even impossible.
Train Your Mind: Don’t Be So Predictable
Atisha’s 59 lojong slogans with commentary
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