Approaching Conflict Creatively: Could All Needs Be Met?
Ratnadevi
17 June 2026
Drawing on NVC and Internal Family Systems, Ratnadevi invites us to listen beneath conflict for the needs seeking expression
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..
The Weight of Grief: Finding Light in the Darkness
Margaret Meloni, PhD
22 January 2026
Margaret Meloni offers a compassionate guide to navigating grief through Buddhist wisdom and gentle reflection
Beloved Even So: Healing the Wounds of Unworthiness
Ratnadevi
16 January 2026
Ratnadevi reflects on how trauma and cultural pressure shape feelings of unworthiness—and how imagination, relationship, and compassion can gently restore a sense of being loved
New Year’s Resolutions That Honor All Parts of You
Ratnadevi
24 December 2025
Ratnadevi guides through the possibility of New Year’s resolutions based in compassion for every part of our lives
Love, Celebration, and Self-forgetting: What Matters at the End of Life?
Ratnadevi
24 October 2025
From funerals to mindfulness practice, the art of living well lies not in achievement but in love that forgives, listens, and releases its own merit
Metta Pulls the Plug
Mettamorphsis
10 October 2025
Sometimes the Dharma turns by stopping: how one loving-kindness practitioner found renewal through exhaustion, compassion, and truth
Tired of Overthinking? Try Not Thinking About Yourself
Kassidy Evans
16 September 2025
How meditating on maitri and committing to helping others can give perspective and clear the mind of self-centric overthinking
Why Bother? Versus Unbothered
Margaret Meloni, PhD
25 March 2025
Margaret Meloni examines how our Buddhist practice can help us navigate a path of resilience and equanimity amid uncertainty and impermanence
Dharma Sharing: Ven. Miao Guang of Taiwan’s Fo Guang Shan Gives a Series of Talks in the US
Craig Lewis
21 October 2024
Taiwan-headquartered Fo Guang Shan reported that the Buddhist nun and scholar Ven. Miao Guang, recently gave a series of Dharma talks in the US.
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
How to Be a Bull
Margaret Meloni, PhD
29 July 2024
Margaret Meloni offers a Buddhist perspective on approaching life’s storms with courage, acceptance, and self-compassion