Tonglen is a traditional Buddhist healing practice for sending and receiving love and compassion in difficult times. Instead of breathing in peace, love, and light for your own benefit and…

Sit quietly for a few minutes without doing any formal meditation practice. Let everything be as it is. Give up trying to control your experience, even your thoughts.

Once you know who you are, or have at least had a clear glimpse, the practice in everyday life is to abide as awakened awareness and keep returning when you wander off.

In the awakening traditions of Asia, students are generally encouraged to renounce the life of romantic partnership, family, and career…

I’m reposting these reflections, written in the first weeks of the pandemic, because I believe they’re still relevant—indeed crucia…

This is the text of a teaching in my 10-session series for Sam Harris’s app Waking Up:
Most spiritual traditions offer…

I recently had a conversation with Sam Harris, the host of the Waking Up app and an author, meditation teacher, and neuroscientist.

I wrote this poem in the fall of 1974 after shaving the head of a friend in preparation for his ordination as a Zen monk. Less than two weeks later…

 By the time I reached graduate school in 1970, I was a born-again Zen Buddhist. After minoring in Asian religions and cultures in college…