lovingkindness practice

Four cast-iron benefits of mindfulness

Many thousands of studies demonstrating the benefits of mindfulness have now been published, to the point where mindfulness can almost…

October 11, 2017

Ask yourself, “Am I showing love right now?”

A little while ago, while I was in the shower, I had a series of realizations. I was unmindfully mulling…

November 10, 2016

Bodhipaksa is teaching in Australia, March 2017!

Bodhipaksa is teaching in Australia in 2017! He's been invited by the Sydney Buddhist Centre to lead a week-long retreat…

November 3, 2016

The components of self-compassion

This post is taken from one of the emails from our online course, How to Stop Beating Yourself Up: Learning…

September 30, 2016

Bringing more kindness to the world

We could all do with being kinder to ourselves, and with being more patient and forgiving with others in our…

July 22, 2016

“Lovingkindness” is simply “kindness”

Our Indiegogo crowdfunding project—aimed at helping us to cover the production costs of our forthcoming album of lovingkindness meditations—is getting…

July 20, 2016

Don’t try to like yourself. Just be kind to yourself

The way to get past not liking yourself isn't trying to like yourself more: it's being kinder to yourself. Last…

July 18, 2016

Lovingkindness: Connection before cultivation

One of the emphases in my teaching of lovingkindness is what might be called connection before cultivation. Basically this is…

July 15, 2016

“The Kindness Cascade”

Meditation and mindfulness are frequently in the news, mainly because of the dramatic increase in research projects showing the many…

July 6, 2016

“Harnessing the Power of Kindness”

Over the past three years I've been teaching lovingkindness meditation a lot. I ran a course in 2014 and again…

July 2, 2016