The author shares a contemplative approach toward one’s environment, both inner and outer.
The author shares how she applies Buddhist teachings on suffering as a way of working with her chronic pain, and offers an exercise for dealing with physical pain.
The author shares how practicing shamatha, or calm abiding meditation, and songs of realization, or dohas, help with settling the mind.
Through studying Buddhist teachings and practice, the author discovers the practice of compassion and, in the process, realizes it is possible to love even “enemies” with equanimity.
A student of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche considers what #GoKind really means, and offers a contemplation on practice real kindness by flipping the script when saying the “magic words” Please, Thank you, and I’m sorry.
A Buddhist student contemplates uncertainty and impermanence when his plans for study and travel take an unexpected turn.
