On Your Mark, Get Set… Don’t Go

Chönyi Taylor presents a meditation to familiarize yourself with the triggers that set off addictive behaviors.

Reconnecting With Ourselves

To heal our painful habits, we need to turn attention inward and reconnect with our experience through stillness, silence, and spaciousness.

Marguerite Manteau-Rao on “The Strength to Bear”

Marguerite Manteau-Rao's thoughts on how the process of liberating herself "has been made possible by a steady practice of meditation,".

Real Happiness

Renowned Buddhist teacher Sharon Salzberg explores the myriad benefits of meditation.

Suffering Is Optional

Physical pain is unavoidable, but meditation practice can ease the mental suffering that often accompanies it. Diana Winston teaches us how.

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Ask the Teachers: Am I practicing guilt or generosity?

The teachers tackle the question of guilt versus generosity as motivation for helping others.

Zazen: Just Wake Up

Zen teacher Myoan Grace Schireson teaches Zazen, sitting meditation from the Zen tradition, a foundational Buddhist practice.

Mindfulness: The Most Direct Path

Insight teacher James Baraz teaches how to train mindfulness with sitting meditation from the Vipassana tradition.

Visualizing Love

A meditation practice from Sangye Khadro on visualizing Maitreya in order to cultivate loving-kindness.

How Meditation Helps in Difficult Times

Pema Chödrön on four ways that meditation helps us deal with difficulty.