A Meditation for Working with Post-Charlottesville Stress

Mushim Patricia Ikeda gives instruction in Metta meditation, which can help us foster feelings of loving-kindness, or good will.

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Good Heart

The Dalai Lama offers a short teaching on kindness and good heartedness.

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Developing the Mind of Great Capacity

A teaching on practices to generate bodhichitta by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Start With a Flower: Alice Walker & Sharon Salzberg in Conversation

A conversation about loving-kindness between Sharon Salzberg and Alice Walker.

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Loving the Many Sides of You

Susan Piver shares her practice for loving all of your imperfections and contradictions.

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In With the Bad Air, Out With the Good

Gehlek Rinpoche on the practice of tonglen, the way to awaken bodhimind by doing exactly the opposite of what your ego wants.

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A Meditation for Extending Loving-kindness

Charles Suhor guides you through a “Connectedness Meditation.”

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Being Love

Awash in the pain of betrayal and a failed marriage, Laura Munson practices Pema Chödrön’s teachings on loving-kindness. It’s hard but it helps.

Kindness to Ourselves and Others

Suffering is more than the first noble truth of Buddhism. To see our own and others' suffering is the first step on the path, the birthplace of compassion. Judy Lief offers guidance on the journey.

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Sharon Salzberg and Susan Piver teach a columnist how to do loving-kindness meditation for Donald Trump

It's a question that's on many minds these days: what's with Donald Trump?