How to Be Intelligently Selfish — The Dalai Lama
December 20, 2020
The Dalai Lama says if you would like to be selfish, you should do it in the most intelligent way: by working for the benefit of others.
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Adapting Tibetan Buddhism’s Lamrim Stages of The Path for a Modern Secular Audience
December 9, 2020
How to adapt the Tibetan Buddhist lamrim tradition of analytical meditation for modern secular people’s personal psychological development.
A Guided 10-Minute Meditation to Calm the Mind
September 18, 2020
Even a short 10-minute meditation has the power to calm your body and mind. Here’s a helpful guide on how just 10 minutes a day can improve your well-being.
What Is Tonglen Meditation?
August 17, 2020
Tonglen, or “taking and giving” is a meditation practice that combines meditating on loving-kindness with meditating on compassion to release our own pain, suffering, and loneliness.
Guided Meditation for Better Sleep
July 29, 2020
A guided sleep meditation that helps you fall into a peaceful sleep to achieve restful sleep, greater sleep quality, and fall asleep fast.
Analytical Meditation: Story, Thought, and Emotion
July 20, 2020
The lesser-known technique of analytic meditation enhances our greatest human qualities through stories, thoughts, and emotions.
The Dalai Lama’s “Simple Meditation” From His Ten Percent Happier Interview With Dan Harris
July 7, 2020
The Dalai Lama’s recommended “simple meditations” from his interview on Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris: meditating on the mind and the kindness of others.
When a White Man Passes a Fake Twenty — Meditation & Racial Bias
June 12, 2020
Meditation as an antidote to implicit racial bias, toward a more just country for Black Americans and racial justice
The Meditation Session: A Playlist for the Mind
February 27, 2020
A meditation session, like a perfect playlist or a great story, has an arc to it including posture, motivation, stabilizing, and analytic meditation
What Is Meditation?
February 5, 2020
Meditation has become popular as a way to help reduce stress, be focused at work, sleep better, or simply relax. Yet meditation isn’t just a tool to improve focus or relax, but a way to strengthen the positive qualities we all naturally possess: compassion, kindness, generosity, patience, humor, and finding joy in everyday life.