On practice
 When metta doesn’t mean “love”
by Sunada
The word metta is often translated as lovingkindness, or even love, but this can be misleading, Sunada says.
Sometimes, no matter what you do, you’re not going to like someone. But we can still wish, she says, for that person’s well-being and happiness.
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 A thousand thoughts of love
by Juko Tina Jay
A Buddhist practitioner known as Juko has, for many months, been sending thoughts of lovingkindness out into the world, using the microblogging service, Twitter. Here's a collection of her beautiful and loving utterances.
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 How to see people, not just our reactions to them
by Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
When we encounter someone, usually the mind automatically slots the person into a category. This leads to us, in various ways, not treating people as people. How can we learn to see people, and not just our thought and feeling about them?
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 What makes someone a Buddhist?
by Bodhipaksa
From time to time Bodhipaksa gets emails from people who wonder how to become a Buddhist, or wondering if it’s OK for them to call themselves a Buddhist.
Here, Wildmind’s founder sheds some light on what it is that makes a Buddhist a Buddhist.
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 Mindfulness: how to bring it to work
by Saddhamala
Most of us spend 35 or more (sometimes many more!) hours working each week. Bringing more mindfulness into our working hours can be a powerful way to develop focus, improve our communication, reduce stress, and feel more confident. Saddhamala gives us 20 pointers to putting mindfulness to work.
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 A little calmness goes a long way
by Bodhipaksa
Multitasking has been shown to make us less efficient, and to bring about a kind of “pseudo Attention Deficit Disorder” that leaves us restless and unable to focus. So why do we do it?
Or, perhaps more importantly, how can we stop doing it?
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 Making wise decisions
by Vishvapani
Decisions shape our lives, but psychologists say we are remarkably bad at making them.
In learning to make good decisions, we could usefully look at the Buddha’s teaching to an Indian clan who found themselves baffled in the face of competing spiritual paths.
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