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Publication Day! The Heart’s Awakening
It’s always an interesting day when one of your books is published. It’s exciting. But you’re sending your inmost thoughts out into the world for other people to read and perhaps judge, and so...
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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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Mudita is not “sympathetic joy”
This is an extract from the introduction to my current course on Mudita, which is part of a longer series of teachings on the brahma-viharas — also known as the “immeasurables.” The third of the...
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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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From fear and denial to love and acceptance
In the opening words to his book “The Road Less Traveled,” the late psychiatrist M. Scott Peck says: Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because...
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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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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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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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This simple tweak to the way you write emails might change your entire day
How many emails do you write in the average day? I just did a quick count and yesterday alone it was 64! Many of the messages I write are business emails and don’t have a salutation or valediction,...
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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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“Make Peace With Your Mind,” by Mark Coleman
Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Indiebound. Mark Coleman is a senior meditation teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, as well as an executive coach and founder of the Mindfulness Institute....
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Ask yourself, “Am I showing love right now?”
A little while ago, while I was in the shower, I had a series of realizations. I was unmindfully mulling over a financial problem, because my bank had messed and moved all my money into someone else’s...
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Bodhipaksa is teaching in Australia, March 2017!
Rainbow at VijayalokaBodhipaksa is teaching in Australia in 2017! He’s been invited by the Sydney Buddhist Centre to lead a week-long retreat on lovingkindness and the other three “divine abidings” at...
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The components of self-compassion
This post is taken from one of the emails from our online course, How to Stop Beating Yourself Up: Learning the Art of Self-Compassion, which starts tomorrow, October 1. Click here for more...
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Bringing more kindness to the world
We could all do with being kinder to ourselves, and with being more patient and forgiving with others in our lives. My forthcoming album of guided lovingkindness meditations, “Harnessing the Power of...
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“Lovingkindness” is simply “kindness”
Our Indiegogo crowdfunding project—aimed at helping us to cover the production costs of our forthcoming album of lovingkindness meditations—is getting close to being 100% funded! Please do visit our...
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Don’t try to like yourself. Just be kind to yourself
The way to get past not liking yourself isn’t trying to like yourself more: it’s being kinder to yourself. Last week I was having a conversation with a friend who was experiencing loneliness. She said...
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The power of self-kindness
How we look at ourselves makes a huge difference to how we feel. I’m talking principally about how we regard ourselves internally—how we each relate to ourselves as an individual human being—rather...
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Lovingkindness meditation, using natural language
When I was first taught the metta bhavana (“development of lovingkindness”) practice, back in the early 1980s, I was encouraged to use these three phrases: “May I be well; may I be happy; may I be...
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