Come Home to Yourself

Your true home is this body. This mind. This moment. There, says Kaira Jewel Lingo, you’ll find peace and freedom.

What to Do When You Can’t Sleep

Meditation and mindfulness can help you get the shut-eye you need. Joseph Emet on how to feel more rested.

Heal in Community

Come together with others, says Arisika Razak, to grieve, heal, and fight for a better world.

A Thousand Thoughts, A Thousand Pieces

Roberval Oliveira on why doing puzzles can deepen your meditation practice.

How to Establish a Daily Practice of Almost Anything

Whether it’s meditation, yoga, or art, you get more from doing it every day. Follow these six steps to enjoy all the benefits of daily practice.

Spring Washam. Photo by Bethanie Hines.

Answering the Call to Awaken

Like the Buddha, we all get our call to wake up. It often comes when life isn’t working and we may have to go a little crazy.

How to Make Friends with Your Beautiful Monsters

Anger, fear, envy—usually we’re ashamed of our so-called monstrous emotional patterns. Yet if we make friends with our monsters, says Tsoknyi Rinpoche, magic happens. We are no longer afraid.

Broken statue.

I Want to Tell You About Coming Apart and Struggling Through Depression

A moving account by Susan Moon of her journey back from depression, and how her Buddhist practice both helped and hindered her.

What Really Makes Us Happy

As a Buddhist teacher, psychiatrist, and leading researcher, Dr. Robert Waldinger studies life from three very different perspectives. But he says they all come to the same basic conclusion about what really makes our lives happy and meaningful, and what doesn’t.

10 Tips for a Mindful Home

Karen Maezen Miller offers 10 simple tips for a mindful home.