I've been practicing and teaching self-compassion for a long time now. My book on that topic, "This Difficult Thing of…
This is the first time I've posted here in a while. Virtually all of my energy is going into supporting…
Eleanor Roosevelt is often credited with saying "Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent." As a bit of…
In my last post I said I'd been teaching meditations based on a Buddhist discourse called the Honeyball or Honeycake Sutta.…
Someone recently wrote to me, saying that she was lonely and felt unloved, and wondering whether the metta bhavana practice…
I was teaching a class the other night and after a guided meditation one woman said she'd found it hard…
Watch your thoughts; they become stories. Watch your stories; they become excuses. Watch your excuses; they become relapses. Watch your…
Dr. Manoj Jain, The Tennessean: This summer’s Disney-Pixar movie “Inside Out” makes us think about our thinking. But, I wonder,…
Self-compassion is the most radically transformative practice that I’ve stumbled upon in more than 30 years of exploring Buddhism. It’s…
I just wanted to share a couple of things I've been doing recently to deal with the part of…