What is the purpose of life?
What is the purpose of life? This question has for centuries baffled philosophers and kept weary souls awake at night. Contrary to … Read more >
Placing Hands in Meditation: Disrupting Familiar Patterns as a Gateway to Mindfulness
Our brains love repetition and will take any opportunity to slip into autopilot. I'm notified every three weeks when I... Read more >
The long corridor of Metta
Welcome, dear readers, to another month of taking off the meditation cushion and into the world. Last month's article, from Metta... Read more >
The Beginner's Mind: Self-Compassion: Learning to Get Along
Beginner's Mind is a special BDG project bringing together insightful essays written by American college students who have taken experiential learning courses related… Read more >
The Buddha's teaching: permission to be ourselves
To what suffering should I open myself? This is the question that is bothering me this morning. Thinking about it, part of me finds the question ridiculous. … Read more >
Releasing grudges is a good death
Mary Carol is at a local event. Across the room, she sees someone she used to work with and immediately remembers... Read more >
What is and what is not? Revise our mind
Today, Buddhism has become almost synonymous with mindfulness practices. Contemporary research on the brain effects of mindfulness… Read more >
The Four Sublime States
A good meditation teacher can inspire a disciple to contemplate one of the four sublime states as an antidote to balance unwholesome and harmful states... Read more >
Secular meditation: a practice sometimes put at the service of performance?
Many people are interested in meditation, but some, misinformed, are mistaken in their approach, in their desire to appropriate what they think... Read more >
Stop the race for enlightenment and absolute happiness
Whether you are a Buddhist or not, the literature and conferences around Awakening, a guarantee of absolute happiness, make you dream. According to the main clichés and … Read more >
Meditate in heavy weather! take shelter
Religious conversion, awareness or inner journey… How to take refuge to find one? It happens, on some winter days, that we feel exhausted, … Read more >
A post-containment return under the sign of common sense and solidarity
This May 11 will mark a turning point in the history of our country and of each one of us. During confinement, our family lives have sometimes changed; … Read more >
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