Walking the Line Between Self-Compassion and Self-Indulgence
Kassidy Evans
27 November 2025
Discipline can help practitioners to enjoy productive and healing self-care while avoiding falling into addictive habits
The First Blue Sky: The Paradox of Perception and Reality
Nachaya Campbell-Allen
27 October 2025
Nachaya Campbell-Allen examines our relationship with reality and the Buddha’s admonition on clinging to views
Metta’s Back
Mettamorphsis
14 May 2024
Our loving-kindness practitioner embarks on a Goenka-style Vipassana retreat and realizes that it is time for a new direction in her practice
Removing the Tangled Weeds
Sensei Alex Kakuyo
24 April 2024
Working on the spiritual path can be slow and difficult work, much like clearing weeds, but it will lead to progress if we give it time.
Learning How to Suffer
Sensei Alex Kakuyo
25 July 2023
As we work for awakening, Sensei Alex Kakuyo advises us that we cannot eliminate suffering, but instead we can learn to accept it as it arises
Spiral Fracture
Ratnadevi
11 September 2019
Kindness and gratitude in the face of suffering
Overcoming Obstacles to Mindfulness Practice
Ratnadevi
31 October 2018
Introducing a new column onBringing Mindfulness…
A Better Question
Xavier Alexander Vazquez
2 May 2018
Building a new relationship with discomfort