Five Sciences

Anxiety

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...
Reading Namtars

Reading Namtars

Hilary Herdman discusses the reading of the life-stories of great masters (Tib. Namtar) as spiritual practice....
loneliness

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....
FOMO

FOMO Got You Down? Try Sympathetic Joy

Learn about an ancient Buddhist tool to overcome FOMO....

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!...
Seasonal Influences

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....
Giving Joyfully

Giving Joyfully: #Giving Tuesday

Giving joyously is the first of the "perfections" praised in the Vajrayana tradition....

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...

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....

Everyone Can Meditate: Caring for Our Minds

Tulku Migmar explains that Mindfulness is an exercise everyone can practice, notwithstanding their religion or lifestyle....
Dantian

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...

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...