We all have a tendency to beat ourselves up over things we did wrong in the past, or that we think that we did wrong. And so we all need to forgive ...
10 Buddhist books everyone should read, as selected by the editors of Lion’s Roar. After the Ecstasy, the Laundryby Jack Kornfield(Bantam, 2000) According to ...
If you close your eyes and become aware of your body, can you detect your heartbeat — without touching your chest or checking your pulse?Now, can you do it ...
Thupten Jinpa teaches us two great practices to start and end every day. Illustration: Two Candles, by Gerhard Richter. In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, we ...
2021 is the 21st anniversary of the launch of the Wildmind website. To celebrate, we’re giving away two albums of guided meditation MP3’s.One album is Guided ...
Buddhist monk Ajahn Brahm shares his personal approach to loving-kindness meditation, also known as metta. Photo by Lydia Torre. Stage One A Warm Fire in Your ...
When I was younger I used to think that New Year’s Day resolutions would almost automatically bring about change. It was as if thinking that you wanted to ...
Larry Yang teaches the basics of a simple practice you can do right now: insight meditation. Photo by Nick Fewings. The term “insight meditation” comes from ...
All summer I’ve been reading Barry Lopez’s book, “Arctic Dreams” — it’s very, very long and I still have a ways to go — and the other night, I read this line ...
Who says you always have to sit in silence? Ryan Winger explains how you can bring the mind of meditation to the music you love — with friends. Illustration by ...
Anyone who has meditated knows that over and over again we turn the mind toward the sensations of the breathing, to building kindness, or to some other object ...
Lion’s Roar’s “Insight & Mindfulness” course features Trudy Goodman, Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, Noliwe Alexander, Christiane Wolf, Alisa Dennis, ...