lovingkindness practice

What Rikers Island taught me about meditation

Prison can be a tough environment for those who work there as well as for inmates. Psychotherapist Steve Bell reflects…

March 2, 2009

“True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart,” by Thich Nhat Hanh

Title: "True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart." Author: Thich Nhat Hanh Publisher: Shambhala ISBN: 1-59030-188-9 Bodhipaksa reviews a…

February 3, 2009

Aldous Huxley: “We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge…”

Halfway between "the season of goodwill" and Valentine's Day, Bodhipaksa looks at Huxley's understanding of what love really is. Is…

January 21, 2009

Ursula K. Le Guin: “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new.”

Everything's impermanent, but rather than be depressed by this fact we can use it to our advantage. Bodhipaksa looks at…

December 10, 2008

Chogyam Trungpa on Warriorship

In these extracts from a forthcoming book from Shambhala Publications, the late Chogyam Trungpa defines his vision of the peaceful…

October 25, 2008

True heroism is to practice love

Life as a battle is a common metaphor -- even in Buddhist teachings. Bodhipaksa shows how the Buddha subverted the…

September 26, 2008

Healing the mind’s wounds

How do we heal wounds in the mind? Author and performer Vimalasara offers advice, and a poem. Every time we…

August 26, 2008

Ask Auntie Suvanna: How to love Dick

Ever despair at how to cultivate lovingkindness for Dick Cheney, or ponder the effect of anti-depressants on Buddha Nature? If…

March 28, 2008

All Embracing Urge: Motherhood and Practice

Motherhood has opened up a new emotional realm for Srimati. But how to love wholeheartedly and continually let go is…

February 15, 2008

“Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.” Ann Landers

Do you end up with recurrent inner strife, where you argue with voices from the past? And do they argue…

October 31, 2007