kindness

Publication Day! The Heart’s Awakening

It's always an interesting day when one of your books is published. It's exciting. But you're sending your inmost thoughts…

October 14, 2025

Self-love, self-kindness, and non-self

Someone wrote to me recently and asked two questions, which boiled down to: Did the Buddha teach self-love? Is loving…

March 7, 2025

12 Ways to respond to unkindness with kindness

I came across this on Mastodon (the BEST social media platform), shared by user Vee, and thought it was really…

September 3, 2024

A meditation for accepting aging

An elderly friend of mine once said to me, "Aging isn't for sissies." She was talking mainly about the physical…

August 31, 2023

In lovingkindness practice, don’t look for love; look with love

I remember one time, not long after I'd first learned to meditate, I was being guided through the lovingkindness (metta…

February 24, 2023

Keeping the mind on track

If you're familiar with the way I teach meditation you'll know that for many years one of the key things…

December 14, 2020

Four steps to self-empathy and self-kindness

One thing that's changed my life more than any other is the practice of self-empathy. Simply hearing the term for…

August 8, 2018

Sitting With Bodhi II

I invite you to join a new format of course that I pioneered a few weeks ago. It's a different…

May 31, 2018

This simple tweak to the way you write emails might change your entire day

How many emails do you write in the average day? I just did a quick count and yesterday alone it…

February 2, 2018

Be lived by love

Feeling both the world and myself these days, one phrase keeps calling: lived by love. Explicitly, this means coming from…

December 20, 2017