Category: Mindfulness
Find Your Heart in Loneliness
When we are alone, says Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, we may begin a love affair with sadness.
When Plans Go Awry, Eat the Blame
Have your plans ever worked out exactly as you’d hoped? Toni Bernhard explains how to dance through life's complications.
Wanting What’s Right
Karen Maezen Miller on trying to curb the budding consumerism of her children and their attachment to things.
Spirit and the Boy
Mother to one, sister to the other—Karen Connelly on three interwoven lives and the call she will always accept.
Dharma for Moms and Dads
Ty Phillips looks at the Five Precepts—the ethical code of dedicated Buddhist practitioners—and finds five powerful guidelines every parent could use.
Love Without Fear: Building Fearless Relationships
Today fear is rampant in all areas of our lives. There are many ways we seek safe harbor, a place to feel protected and cared for. Many turn to relationships for this, to experience security and comfort. Then, a paradoxical thing happens, the relationship itself becomes a cause of fear. What makes this happen?
Take Your Mind to the Gym
You have the power to change your habitual mental patterns. The key, Norman Fischer says, is to do your reps.
Restlessness, Contentment, and “Kindfulness”
The Buddhist monk known as Ajahn Brahm talks about developing a sense of contentment, and not finding fault in your meditation practice.