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Emotions
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In an excerpt from her new online course, “Real Life,” Buddhist teacher Sharon Salzberg provides strategies for dealing with intrusive thoughts and painful mind states.
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Awakening with a Rude Driver
A meditation teacher on countering reactive responses on the road
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Who Was She?
Reflecting on the transitory nature of the self images we carry
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Scare Yourself Awake
Some of our spookiest reads for Halloween
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Are We All Hungry Ghosts?
A Buddhist psychotherapist on transforming self-loathing into wisdom
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Life Being As It Is
The Ordinary Mind Zen School teacher on overcoming intrusive thoughts
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A Mind Like the Sky
Tibetan Lama Za Choeje Rinpoche on how to be aware of awareness in our day-to-day lives
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‘Know Hatred Completely’
A Soto Zen priest reckons with the koan of racism and comes to view Buddhism as a practice of engaged liberation.
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Forgetting the Self at a Party Full of Strangers
How tending to the very thing we fear can offer a path to awakening
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