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...

Sustaining your attention on the breathing really develops awareness but when you get lost in thought or restlessness, that's all right...

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...

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...

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

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

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...