How to Support Your Teen’s Meditation Practice
Psychotherapist and mindfulness teacher Gina Biegel explains what practices work best with young adults (and if you should even try to make them put down their smartphone).
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Personal Reflections Parenting
No Need for Words
In the absence of language, a poet realizes the fullness of maternal love.
Family Dharma: Karma and the Tonka Truck
The Buddha called the law of karma “the light of the world” because it illuminates how and why things happen in our lives. The force of karma is a fundamental principle underlying all Buddhist teachings, and…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Children and Dharma: An Introduction
Neil Gordon ponders the hard truth of parenting: To love our children is to lose them again and again, in every passing moment.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Parenting
Family Practice
I’d been away on a silent retreat for several weeks. We’d engaged in a Dzogchen preliminary practice of self-inquiry in which one asks, “Who is meditating? Who, what is aware?” By retreat’s end, wondering how my…
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