
Metta’s Testimony
Our loving-kindness practitioner follows the Dharma into volunteer work with survivors and whistleblowers, reflecting on trauma, truth-telling, healing, and compassionate action.

Our loving-kindness practitioner follows the Dharma into volunteer work with survivors and whistleblowers, reflecting on trauma, truth-telling, healing, and compassionate action.

How the Contemplative Medicine Fellowship is helping doctors reimagine the notion of healing, compassion, and caring for others

This month, our loving-kindness practitioner explores how walking, service, and simple acts of kindness can become new foundations for embodied Dharma practice.

This month, our loving-kindness practitioner explores trauma, somatic awareness, and the tender work of regulating before meditating

Inspired by Celtic clootie traditions and Buddhist sensibilities, a collaborative art project transformed discarded fabric and handwritten hopes into a river-like tapestry of interconnection and healing

A journey of caregiving, spiritual searching, and unexpected community reveals how loving-kindness can reshape even the most uncertain chapters of life.

Buddhist teachers join hands to teach reconnection by taking care of our inner child and tending to our inner children’s pain

A reflection on decluttering as a practice of loving-kindness, showing how making outer space can support inner healing during times of overwhelm and transition

Through helping a grieving friend declutter her home, our loving-kindness practitioner explores how metta guides us in deciding what to keep, release, and give away

A Buddhist perspective on Gaza’s ceasefire argues that this is not an endpoint, but rather the start of a long, moral path to true peace

How meditating on maitri and committing to helping others can give perspective and clear the mind of self-centric overthinking

A senior teacher in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village tradition, Larry Ward was known for his laughter, compassion, and interfaith approach