Loving Kindness Meditation
Loving Kindness Meditation If we understand Jesus’ command to “be merciful” rather than to “be perfect,” we must find some way to regularly practice and participate in the mutual exchange of ...
Saying Grace
Saying Grace Many cultures have a beautiful tradition of saying a prayer before or after a meal, expressing gratitude and asking for blessing. If we are accustomed to praying over our ...
Tonglen
How to Practice Tonglen Pema Chödrön teaches us “sending and taking,” an ancient Buddhist practice to awaken compassion. With each in-breath, we take in others’ pain. With each out-breath, we send them ...
Being a Mirror of Goodness: An Intention for the New Year
Being a Mirror of Goodness: An Intention for the New Year Adapted from: Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN Tara Brach, PhD The ...
Practice Right Now
Each moment of daily life is an opportunity to arrive in the present moment. Gathas are short verses that we can recite during daily activities to help us return to the ...
Be Mindful in Daily Life
Mindfulness is the energy of being aware and awake to the present moment. It is the continuous practice of touching life deeply in every moment of daily life. To be mindful ...
Tonglen
Tibetan Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön shares the practice of tonglen as a way of holding suffering and awakening compassion: In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves. ...
Tonglen
Meditation: Tonglen or Giving and Receiving: A Practice of Great Mercy 1 Cultivating Mercy The practice of Tonglen or Giving and Receiving is done to develop our compassion and our ability ...
Tonglen Practice (abridged)
from “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying” by Sogyal Rinpoche The Preliminary Tonglen Practice The best way to do this practice, and any practice of Tonglen, is to begin by ...
Practice: Do No Harm
Ruth King is a Buddhist teacher and founder of Mindful Members Meditation Community in Charlotte, North Carolina. In Buddhism, mysticism is defined differently than it is in Christian context, but it ...
Simple is Beautiful
Simple Is Beautiful By Eknath Easwaran There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, ...
RAIN: A Practice of Radical Compassion
The acronym RAIN is an easy-to-remember tool for bringing mindfulness and compassion to emotional difficulty. Recognize what is going on; Allow the experience to be there, just as it is; Investigate ...
Meditation – RAIN: Working with Difficult Emotions
This guided practice applies mindfulness and self-compassion to challenging emotions. It is based on the acronym RAIN, and provides a four step practice that is accessible and effective, even at those ...
Mindfulness Exercise: Releasing Tension
The next exercise is to release the tension in the body. When you are truly aware of your body, you notice there is some tension and pain in your body, some ...
Mindfulness Exercise: Awareness of Your Body
The third exercise is to become aware of your body as you are breathing. “Breathing in, I am aware of my whole body.” This takes it one step further. In the ...