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Silencing the Inner Critic
The nagging, negative voice of self-judgement, says Christina Feldman, is a powerful affliction best met with courage, kindness, and understanding.
Three Questions for Coming Back to Now
Buddhist practitioner Leslie Davis offers three questions you can ask yourself to reel your running mind back to the present moment.
Can you measure compassion?
In a new paper, researchers have proposed a scale for measuring the Buddhist virtues of loving-kindness and compassion.
Make Your Love Skillful
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Sensei on the unity of life, love, and practice.
Go Right into Consciousness
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold says Buddhist practice isn't about turning away; practice is a means to face life directly.
Buddhism Behind Bars: 7 Organizations Making a Difference
A list of some of the dedicated organizations offering Buddhist teachings and meditation practices to inmates in prisons across the U.S.
What Are the Two Truths?
What is the relationship between absolute reality and the relative world we inhabit? Mahayana Buddhism’s answer is called the two truths.
A meditation on interconnection, with Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg shares a short guided meditation to help connect us to ourselves and the people around us.
Bearing Witness to All of Life
Roshi Bernie Glassman on the three pure precepts — cease from evil, do good, and do good for others — and why they all come down to one point.