Metta for Refugees

Zen priest Liên Shutt teaches a short meditation to foster compassion for beings in search of refuge.

City life offers many opportunities to practice kindness.

Practicing Kindness in the Inner City

City life offers many opportunities to practice kindness. Dzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche on how urban living can open our hearts.

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How to Practice Metta with Children

You’re never too young to practice loving-kindness. Gail Silver on how to teach metta to your kids.

Watch the trailer for a new documentary on the late comedian and Buddhist Mike DeStefano

Mike DeStefano's memory is to get a much-deserved bump, thanks to the pending release of a documentary about him.

Buddha.

Three Means to Peace: Mindfulness, Compassion, and Wisdom

Joseph Goldstein on how three principles of meditation can be applied to the world's conflicts.

Pema Chodron.

Transforming the Heart of Suffering

In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.

Hugging.

Can you measure compassion?

In a new paper, researchers have proposed a scale for measuring the Buddhist virtues of loving-kindness and compassion.

We Are All Wayfarers

It's very easy to get annoyed, says Syvlia Boorstein. "Particularly with our loved ones."

Sylvia Boorstein Reads the Buddha’s Teachings on Loving-kindness

Recorded at 2017 Lion's Roar Annual Retreat, "Boundless Love."

Tonglen. Thangka of Avalokiteshvara.

Tonglen: Bad In, Good Out

A teaching on Tonglen practice by Pema Chödrön, and how it begins by taking in our own suffering before we can help others.