What Moves the Pilgrim Without a Destination
Tiffani Gyatso
10 June 2026
Artist Tiffani Gyatso explores how longing, absence, and uncertainty can become gateways to deeper understanding
Understanding Pain Versus Suffering: A Journey from Confusion to Clarity
Margaret Meloni, PhD
26 February 2026
Margaret Meloni shares a meditation on the difference between pain and suffering, and the path of acceptance..
Together in Grief: A Buddhist Guide to Offering and Asking for Support in Times of Loss
Margaret Meloni, PhD
17 November 2025
Margaret Meloni considers skillful approaches to managing our relationship with loss and grief
The Juicy Stuff: Why Our Deepest Feelings Are a Buddhist Treasure
Nina Müller
2 September 2025
Embracing painful and charged feelings like anger and grief as gateways to awakening: the challenge and power of Vajrayana
Embracing Suffering as Part of Your Journey
Margaret Meloni, PhD
22 August 2024
Margaret Meloni investigates the importance of courage and self-compassion as aspects of our practice in the face of suffering on the Noble Eightfold Path
Wise Suffering
Sensei Alex Kakuyo
29 June 2024
Sensei Alex Kakuyo teaches us that Buddhist practice is not about avoiding suffering, but rather engaging in the hardships of life that can improve our lives and those of others
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.
Metta’s Checkup
Mettamorphsis
19 September 2023
A meditation on loving-kindness for oneself in the midst of intense dental pain and the wonderful kindness of strangers
Caring for the Caregivers
Jacqueline Kramer
11 May 2023
Caregivers sustain all of us and deserve our support in every way we can imagine
All Sentient Beings
Sarah C. Beasley
10 January 2023
Pondering animal well-being and agency
What Is Your Role in These Times of Crisis?
Satya Robyn
28 December 2022
Inviting each of us to check in with our hearts and ask what we can do in these perilous times
On the Practice of Right Mindfulness
Prof. David Dale Holmes
19 April 2021
Avoiding the hindrances of ignorance and delusion