Category: Meditation
Loving-Kindness Starts with You
Josh Korda on how to free your naturally loving heart and expand your goodwill to include all beings through loving-kindness meditation.
May All Beings Be at Ease!
In the Metta Sutta, the Buddha teaches his monks how to live a moral and upright life, with metta at its center.
Why I Do Metta
Janice Lynne Lundy shares her perspective on the practice of loving-kindness – why she loves it, and why it goes with her everywhere.
Macaroni Art — Karen Maezen Miller on Joyful Giving
Karen Maezen Miller looks at why generosity is the starting place of all the virtues.
What Makes Us Free?
Insight. Loving-kindness. Cultivating what’s wholesome. And making them real in our lives every day. These are what make us free, say Insight Meditation teachers Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein, in a conversation at California’s Spirit Rock Meditation Center, moderated by Michelle Latvala.
Neuroscience and meditation: Take as good care of your brain as you do your body.
Josh Korda asks: why would someone who exercises choose not to meditate? Good question!
From The Under 35 Project: “The Case for Kindness”
There's another perspective of kindness that is so common it often goes unnoticed: a simple sense of being of the same kind.
The No-Escape Button
Rather than try to escape from painful feelings, Alixa Doom started practicing tonglen at her job at a psychiatric hospital.
School violence: Can this Buddhist practice make a difference?
Could the Buddhist practice of metta, or lovingkindness meditation, make a difference in school violence? Teacher Russell Evans says yes.
Is Meditation Enough?
Sharon Salzberg, Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, and Gaylon Ferguson examine the central role of meditation in Western Buddhism and explore how other practices, such as study and ritual, may or may not be necessary. With introduction by Norman Fischer.