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Toward more compassionate conversations online

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Published: August 7, 2026 15:59

Here are things I try to observe in my own communication online, especially around politics. These lessons are drawn from mistakes I’ve made in the past. Frankly, I’m still making these mistakes — but not as often as I used to. Before logging in to social…

Politics as a spiritual practice

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Published: February 20, 2026 15:13

It’s hard not to get overwhelmed by what’s going on in the world. Politics is polarizing, the news cycle fuels outrage, and social media tears relationships apart. A lot of us are swinging between anger, anxiety, despair, and exhaustion. You want to stay…

Join me in “As the World Falls Apart”

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Published: January 6, 2026 23:19

I am launching a major new course for 2026, on the topic of how we deal with political turmoil. Here’s why: It sometimes seems that the world we’re living in is falling apart in terrifying ways. I feel oppressed by the knowledge that the world is on a very…

Buddhist monks on 2,300-mile “Peace Walk” across US

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Published: December 29, 2025 18:34

One of my students just let me know that there is a group of Buddhist monks walking from Texas to DC in a “Walk for Peace” that has the goal of “raising awareness of peace, loving kindness, and compassion across America and the world.” It’s a 120-day,…

“This is just how things are right now”

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Published: December 2, 2025 20:47

I’ve been practicing and teaching self-compassion for a long time now. My book on that topic, “This Difficult Thing of Being Human,” was published six years ago. (I hope you’ve read it. If you haven’t, I hope you will.) My approach to practicing…

Twenty-five years of Wildmind

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Published: November 11, 2025 14:53

Today, the 11th day of November, 2025, is Wildmind’s 25th birthday! It’s the 25th anniversary of the first day that the Wildmind website went live.  It was, as far as I’m aware, the first website where anyone could come and learn meditation. I’m pleased…

Publication Day! The Heart’s Awakening

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Published: October 15, 2025 02:25

It’s always an interesting day when one of your books is published. It’s exciting. But you’re sending your inmost thoughts out into the world for other people to read and perhaps judge, and so sometimes it’s nerve-racking as well. I felt rather tired for…

Unexpected Awakening, by Laurie Jacobson

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Published: October 10, 2025 01:26

Laurie Jacobson’s Unexpected Awakening is an absorbing and deeply moving memoir that captures the transformative power of finding one’s voice at a time when that can seem an impossible task. This heart-warming and compelling story had me turning the pages…

Learning the demons’ secret names

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Published: September 1, 2025 01:25

A few weeks ago my partner and I went to a pro-Democracy rally a couple of miles down the road. I’d decided that I wanted to spend my time there meditating, so I took along a yoga mat and my meditation bench, and sat down to meditate. In front of me sat a…

Books and cats

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Published: August 29, 2025 18:56

It was lovely to receive this photograph the other day. This is one of the people who wrote an endorsement of my forthcoming book, “The Heart’s Awakening,” receiving her advance copy. The book doesn’t come out until Oct 14, and I didn’t even know that it…