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Daily Connect: Urban Metta Practice
Although many believe meditation means sitting motionless in a quiet room, it's important to remember that meditation can be done anytime, anywhere. Metta meditation is particularly easy to do in...
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And I Love You
Very early tomorrow I will be getting on a plane and heading off to a fairly remote retreat center in Colorado. Very early. The first flight leaves at 5 a.m., which means leaving the house around 2:30...
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Making the First Move
Saddled with backpacks, duffle bags, and pillows, the teens shuffle up to the table one by one to register for their weeklong meditation retreat. Their eyes flicker with hope and fear as they...
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A Road to Self-Compassion: In Honor of August as Metta Meditation Month
Throughout my life, I’ve always been viewed as the “selfless” one. The “people pleaser.” The “highly empathetic one,” the “ridiculously sensitive one,” the one who wears her heart on her sleeve and...
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Dharma Connect: Philadelphia Proclaims a Day of Kindness
Philadelphia -- long known as the City of Brotherly Love but more (in)famous recently as the city that destroyed a robot that had traveled safely throughout Canada and parts of Europe -- will hold a...
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Daily Connect: Three Scientific Outcomes of Meditation
It seems like everyday there's another news story on the benefits of meditation, and how meditation causes physical changes to the brain. But what do the changes signify? Harvard neuroscientist Sara...
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Metta Month - An Ending and a Beginning
Back in June, at the beginning of the summer, IDP decided to offer a weekly Metta/Lovingkindness Meditation practice, on Fridays from 6-7pm. When planning the offering, I wondered if anyone would...
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How to love the scared and scary ones
How do you love someone who is scared and who scares you?I was reminded of this question, posed by Tsoknyi Rinpoche in his book "Open Heart, Open Mind," this week as I watched the Internet react to...
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Off the Cushion and Onto the Dance Floor
"It's a meditation," the dance instructor says, coaxing me to relax and follow him in the tango.read more
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Daily Connect: Mindfulness App Gets $30 Million in Funding
Headspace received $30 million in funding this week to expand their services. In one press release, they were described as a "leading digital health and wellness media brand", though most of us know...
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You Are My Other Me
In southern Arizona, where I live, many people think that it’s illegal to give exhausted desert travelers water, food, and shelter. Go ahead and re-read that first sentence. read more
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Good Morning Monday
The person I call “Bernie” consists of many parts—limbs, organs, tissues, bones, and cells. If my right hand is gashed, my entire body will spring into action. My brain will think of ways to get care...
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The Most Worthwhile 5 Minutes You'll Spend All Day
It has never been more difficult to live in the moment. Many of us have lives so full of activities that we can hardly catch our breaths. We work long hours, sometimes on weekends, and have hectic...
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Embodying the Teachings: A Daylong Retreat
In our culture, we place a high emphasis on intellectual learning. Yet our personal growth seems to depend on how we translate what we read and hear into some deeper, possibly wordless understanding....
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Laurie Anderson takes on the Buddhist View of Death and Bardo in New Film
Laurie Anderson and her deceased husband, Lou Reed, were both students of the Tibetan Buddhist teacher, YongeyMingurRinpoche. IDP Blog Writer, Nancy Thompson wrote a wonderful post here, describing...
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Good Morning Monday - Buddhism in the Kitchen
Eric Ripert, chef and owner of Le Bernadin, a famous NYC Michelin-rated restaurant, said recently:I have applied good principles of Buddhism with the employees of Le Bernardin . . . [and] in the way of...
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Sitting in the Hot Seat
One of the benefits of meditation is that you become less reactive. You cultivate the ability to rest in a calm, clear space so that you can choose how to respond rather than habitually hitting back....
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Good Morning Monday: Steve Jobs' Zen Teacher
To be born on this earth is to have the whole thing. From the beginning there are precise distinctions between things, but the whole thing is yourself. That is how it started. When we become deeply...
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Mingyur Rinpoche Returns from Retreat
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, a popular Tibetan teacher who has written several best-selling books and is the leader of the read more
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Remembering Jamie Zimmerman: Reflections on the loss of an IDP Sangha Member
“Wounds still fresh, [my leg] isn’t quite ready to bear my weight. I typically walk with a brisk pace, but today my stride is necessarily deliberate…” —Jamie Zimmermanread more
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