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Books and cats
It was lovely to receive this photograph the other day. This is Mara, one of the people who wrote an endorsement of my forthcoming book, “The Heart’s Awakening,” receiving her advance copy. The cat in...
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Self-love, self-kindness, and non-self
Some wrote to me recently and asked two questions, which boiled down to: Did the Buddha teach self-love? Is loving yourself contrary to seeing through the illusion of self? There was a third question,...
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12 Ways to respond to unkindness with kindness
I came across this on Mastodon (the BEST social media platform), shared by user Vee, and thought it was really useful. I haven’t been able to find out for sure where it’s from, but it seems to be from...
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Four spiritual love languages
Yesterday on Mastodon, which is the only social media site I use at the moment besides the private online community space I host for Wildmind’s sponsors, someone shared a link to a “love languages”...
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A meditation for accepting aging
An elderly friend of mine once said to me, “Aging isn’t for sissies.” She was talking mainly about the physical difficulties of getting older, and especially the aches, pains, and difficulty in doing...
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In lovingkindness practice, don’t look for love; look with love
I remember one time, not long after I’d first learned to meditate, I was being guided through the lovingkindness (metta bhavana) meditation practice. And the instructor asked us to turn our attention...
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“Goodnight Love: A Bedtime Meditation Story”
Please order books locally, rather than from Amazon, through, Shambhala, Indiebound (US), or Bookshop.org (US and UK) A little while ago I received an email from Sumi Loundon Kim, telling me about a...
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The benefits of making things hard for ourselves
I find that a lot of the time, when people are cultivating kindness or compassion for a person they find difficult, they do it in a rather vague way. Usually in their meditation practice they just...
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Love, grammar, and magic
I’ve just finished reading Lawrence Weinstein’s book, “Grammar for a Full Life,” which I intend to write a review of later this week. (Spoiler: I’ll be recommending the book highly.) “Grammar for a...
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The thing you may sometimes confuse with true kindness
Someone recently wrote to me sharing his reservations about the use of the word “love” to translate metta. Metta is a Buddhist word that is most often translated as “lovingkindness.” I confess I used...
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“All people and all circumstances are my allies.”
In an interview, Lynn Jurich, the founder and CEO of the solar energy company, Sunrun, said: Every morning my meditation is: “All people and all circumstances are my allies.” I repeat it every...
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Meditating with pets
I have a daily Zoom meditation group as part of Wildmind’s Meditation Initiative, and there are often a few pets in evidence. In fact one day someone commented that it must be “Take Your Dog to...
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Tonglen: a practice of compassion for self and other
In response to the current coronavirus crisis, I’m putting together a FREE course on how we can find calmness and balance when things around us are falling apart. It’ll start on April 10, and will...
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Love isn’t what you look for; it’s how you look
In one of my early experiences of lovingkindness meditation (metta bhavana), a teacher told me to look for feelings of love in my heart, and then to spread that love to other people. I duly searched...
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Seven tips for people who struggle with lovingkindness practice
In the tradition I practice in, lovingkindness (metta bhavana) and mindfulness meditation are considered equally important, and yet my own informal surveys suggest that about a third of long-term...
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Four steps to self-empathy and self-kindness
One thing that’s changed my life more than any other is the practice of self-empathy. Simply hearing the term for the first time was a revelation for me, since I immediately recognized that I wasn’t...
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Practicing in balance
There’s an unfortunate tendency these days to see mindfulness as being the only quality we need to develop in meditation, and that everything else follows automatically. But that’s not how practice...
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Sitting With Bodhi II
I invite you to join a new format of course that I pioneered a few weeks ago. It’s a different kind of meditation course with a new format. It’s called Sitting With Bodhi. The second series starts...
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The world needs your kindness
Even as a mother protects with her life Her child, her only child, So with a boundless heart Should one cherish all living beings, Radiating kindness over the entire world. –The Buddha Just as a child...
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Stepping into an “enemy’s” shoes
We all experience problems of coming into conflict with others, even if sometimes the conflicts take place purely inside our heads in the form of resentment and irritation. Finding ways to lessen...
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