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...

Written by René Fay

“When I started meditating, I had been able-bodied, but things had changed. I was still figuring out my relationship to this new situation while I deepened my practice. What ha...

Written by Jen Liu

“When constructing a building, airtight precision and predictability are exactly what we want. But when growing a garden — which inner work more closely resembles — patience, ad...