
The Missing Suitcase
The author shares how losing her luggage afforded the perfect opportunity to choose between frantic worry and intentional calmness.

The author shares how losing her luggage afforded the perfect opportunity to choose between frantic worry and intentional calmness.

A contemplation on silence and speech, hearing and listening, with two practices to try.

Being present at the death of a loved one, the author discovers that meditation and mind training practice transforms the experience of loss into one of tenderness and joy.

A contemplation on Karma, the third of the Four Reminders of Buddhist teachings, with an exercise to try.

Studying Buddhist mind training helps the author resolve conflict and get along with a new housemate

A Buddhist student contemplates uncertainty and impermanence when his plans for study and travel take an unexpected turn.
