Sylvia Boorstein

Sylvia Boorstein on the transformative power of acknowledging life's constant cycle of creation and loss.

Regularly remind yourself of your intentions, advises Sylvia Boorstein. It’s the key to keeping your life on target.

Perhaps these days of less sunlight are opportunities for more contemplative time, more looking deeply to see what can only be seen in the dark.

Sylvia Boorstein shares a meditation for deepening our sense of interconnectedness.

Cuando leemos las noticias, quizás nos vemos abrumados sintiéndonos “nada bien”, pero Sylvia Boorstein dice que hay modos en los que podemos trabajar con ese sentimiento.

Sylvia Boorstein addresses a mental affliction we don’t often talk about in spiritual terms. It’s a big problem for her, and maybe for you—worrying.

These days, if an aversive reaction starts to form in my mind, I think to myself, “Wait! Don’t disturb the peace!”

"We are all subject to the pain of loss, grief, sadness and even plain disappointment. But by talking to one another about it, we console. It is enough."

Sylvia Boorstein unpacks the foundational Buddhist teaching “Recognize unwholesome states in the mind and replace them with wholesome states.”

Right intention is the key to living the life we want and to traversing the Buddha’s eightfold path, says Buddhist teacher Sylvia Boorstein.

Sylvia Boorstein says it’s time to cut yourself some slack.

Sylvia Boorstein learns how daily messages of gratitude exchanged between friends can bring insight and the inspiration to practice.

A reader asks Sylvia Boorstein: “What’s the point of practice if it’s not making me a better person?”

Sylvia Boorstein looks at the paradoxes and subtleties in the central Buddhist concept of no-self.

Buddhist teacher Sylvia Boorstein on 5 styles of habitual reaction—and how to find freedom from yours.

Sylvia Boorstein on how to rescue your mind when confusion overwhelms it into suffering.

Sylvia Boorstein shows us how, with practice, we can glimpse new ways of relating to loved ones, even when we’re stuck.

In the November 2018 issue of Lion’s Roar magazine, 14 Buddhist teachers answer the most frequently asked questions about challenges on the spiritual path. Here, Sylvia Boorstein shares the simple way Buddhist practice has changed her.

The message of Buddha's Four Noble Truths is that paying attention and seeing clearly lead to behaving impeccably in every moment on behalf of all beings.

Heaven is nowhere else but right here on this earth, when we live with friendliness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.

It's very easy to get annoyed, says Syvlia Boorstein. "Particularly with our loved ones."

A daily intention-setting practice, from Sylvia Boorstein.

We suffer, according to Buddhism, simply because we misunderstand the nature of reality. Sylvia Boorstein on developing insight into how things really are.

“There are no human enemies,” says Sylvia Boorstein, “only confused people needing help.”

Does spiritual practice mean we can never get angry? No, says Sylvia Boorstein, it’s all how you work with it.

Sylvia Boorstein answers a reader’s question about how to be happy when her children are not.

When I graduated from Barnard in 1956, I’d already been married for a year and was pregnant with my son Michael. I went back to school eight years and three children later to earn a Masters in social welfare and a Ph.D in psychology. I became a psychotherapist and yoga teacher. I met Jack Kornfield…

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My friends are teachers, as I am, but in both cases we are not trying to teach each other. Rather we are friends learning together.

Sylvia Boorstein recounts a story to exemplify the suddenness of death, and how we must confront that reality.

It's very easy to get annoyed, particularly with our loved ones. I've been married to someone for fifty-three years and in a close relationship with him for fifty-six. Sometimes that person makes a stupid remark that hurts my feelings, doesn't know he did it, and barrels right on.