Written by Noel Coakley

Listening to your gut is underrated in a culture that glorifies intellect and external validation.

A good teacher’s real job is to help you recognize the wisdom already pr...

 Written by Jen Liu

When we practice mindfulness of the breath, we really start to get to know the in-breath and out-breath. Over the course of an ordinary breath cycle, it's hard to tell where th...

 Written by David Nichtern

At a certain point, I think it's pretty easy to recognize karma is the whole game.

If you posit the idea that there's some kind of fundamental goodness, fundamental lig...

Written by Rebecca D'Onofrio

The first noble truth of Buddhism states that life contains inevitable and unavoidable suffering. This is the very first teaching of the Buddha. Hearing such a hard tr...

Blending together Bhakti and Buddhism, best of friends Krishna Das and David Nichtern discuss the gradual cultivation of practice and finding your ‘niche’ within the dharma.

In this ep...

Written by René Fay

“There is nothing about us fundamentally that precludes us from a meditation practice. Anything and everything about us as human beings can be worked with in our practice.”

Written by Noel Coakley

“Practicing mindfulness meditation is like practicing the perspective of the mirror-like mind. Rather than getting caught up in any given reflection occurring in the mirror...

Written by Rebecca D'Onofrio

“Mindfulness meditation practice is about paying attention to what’s happening in the present moment without judgment or bias, not forcing ourselves to achieve some id...

Written by David Nichtern

“Just as we take our reality within the night dream to be completely real, during the “daydream” we take our projections to be real. We rarely have a good look at the qua...