As I wrote in my most recent book, Living as a River: Relating to someone as a “self”—on the basis…
Someone recently wrote to me asking about how to deal with anxiety. He didn't say specifically what his anxiety was…
There are many different types of meditation practices. Most familiar, perhaps, are mantra meditation, Mindfulness of Breathing, Metta Bhavana (Development…
Compassion is essentially the wish that beings not suffer - from subtle physical and emotional discomfort to agony and anguish…
Robert Preidt: Self-compassion can help the newly divorced get through one of the most difficult periods of their lives, researchers…
I remember feeling very frustrated - and frankly a little baffled - when I was first learning the metta bhavana…
Juko, also known as Tina Jay, and manifesting on the microblogging service Twitter as @BuddhistGirl, has been tweeting with relentless…
One of my friends is a lawyer in New York. He graduated from law school, passed the bar exam, got…
In all sects of Buddhism, meditation is a prevalent practice, but Buddhist teachers from different sects use different language to teach meditation.…
Sharon Salzberg has an excellent reputation for creating wonderful dharma books, but when I first saw the title, The Force…