Philosophy

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!...
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....

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...

Cultivating New Habits for Busy Minds

When we hear the word "meditation" we may think that we can't keep still for an hour and be calm.  But, as Tulku Migmar as...

Mental Maintenance Creates Stability

"Mental Maintenance" means working with our own minds. Anxiety, depression, and stress can affect anybody.  First, we need to take care of our actual physical...
What is Ritual?

What is Ritual?

Hilary Herdman shows how ritual practice tames our minds as we perform particular physical and verbal actions....
Reducing Negative Emotions

Reducing Negative Emotions: The Power of Meditation

Our minds are full of thoughts, full of afflictive emotions, and full of unhappiness. This is why dharma practice is really indispensable to us all....
Contemplate Impermanence

Contemplate Impermanence: How Do We Follow That Instruction?

We know that we ourselves will eventually die. We know, and yet ... are we really taking these teachings to heart as the Buddha and...