Solitude is not loneliness, and each one of us is experiencing either one or the other during these days of quarantine. To be alone is to either be separate ...

Sustaining your attention on the breathing really develops awareness but when you get lost in thought or restlessness, that's all right too. Don't drive your...

The heart of skillful meditation is the ability to let go and begin again, over and over again. Even if you have to do that thousands of times during a sessi...

In spite of your concerted effort to keep the mind on your breathing, the mind will likely wander away. It may go to past experiences and suddenly you find y...

In our meditation, we learn from both successes and failures. People fail all the time. Mindfulness of the breath is one of the most frustrating meditation p...

The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding. Right understanding has two parts. To start with, it asks a question of our h...

The word 'meditation' covers many mental experiences, but the goal of Buddhist meditation is to see things as they are; it is a state of awakened attention. ...