Five Sciences
- Path of Transformation
Anxiety: Seeing Through the Spin
Anxiety arises for almost all sentient beings in certain situations. And there are times when worry can be useful or productive. A little stress can...
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Reading Namtars
Hilary Herdman discusses the reading of the life-stories of great masters (Tib. Namtar) as spiritual practice....
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Antidotes for the Loneliness Epidemic
The Buddhist tradition offers a number of antidotes to loneliness. Because the Buddha taught dependent origination-- that everything arises dependently, connection matters....
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FOMO Got You Down? Try Sympathetic Joy
Learn about an ancient Buddhist tool to overcome FOMO....
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Four Radically Happy Ways to Not Just Survive, but Thrive During the Holiday Family Gatherings
Holiday visiting season got you down? Learn some essential mind-training tools for making those visits bearable!...
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Seasonal Influences on Health: Recommendations for the Freeze of Winter
Tawni Tidwell shares some wisdom from the Tibetan Medicine tradition in cultivating balance during the winter months....
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Giving Joyfully: #Giving Tuesday
Giving joyously is the first of the "perfections" praised in the Vajrayana tradition....
- Nine Yanas, Path of Transformation
Repeated Placement: Once Again Resting the Mind
Repeated Placement is the third stage of our calm abiding meditation. In shamatha meditation, our practice proceeds gradually so that we are able to quickly...
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Continuous Placement in Meditation: Bring Back the Mind
Continuous placement, or establishing continuity, is the second stage of calm abiding meditation. When we practice calm-abiding or shamatha meditation, we're gradually retraining our minds....
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Everyone Can Meditate: Caring for Our Minds
Tulku Migmar explains that Mindfulness is an exercise everyone can practice, notwithstanding their religion or lifestyle....
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Dantian: An Introduction to the Field of Elixir
Dantian is a term employed in QiGong, Tai Chi and in Chinese martial arts. Here, sangha member Kelly Maclean gives a brief introduction to this...
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Meditation Training With Focus
"Meditation training with focus" takes many forms. As we begin to build a habit of mindfulness, we can use one or more of these...