The Practice Choose to love. Why? Many years ago, I was in a significant relationship in which the other person…
What's your preferred translation of "metta"? As a kind of postscript to our recent Urban Retreat, which was on the…
Margarita Tartakovsky, PsychCentral: In her book The Need to Please: Mindfulness Skills to Gain Freedom from People Pleasing & Approval…
I remember feeling very frustrated - and frankly a little baffled - when I was first learning the metta bhavana…
What do you do when your heart says "yes" to someone who's determined to break it? Auntie Suvanna's wisdom and…
Everything's impermanent, but rather than be depressed by this fact we can use it to our advantage. Bodhipaksa looks at…
Are spiritual goals dangerous triggers for grasping and selfish desire? Do we need to let go of goals in order…
We all know that mindfulness and meditation are increasingly taught as ways of coping with stressful situations. But what about…
Given that it's the mind that makes up the stories with which we try to make sense of the world,…
A student asks: In my metta bhavana practice, I can’t seem to feel anything toward the neutral and difficult person.…