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When my Tibetan grandmother died on a winter night in Darjeeling, India, the lamas came to the house and began reading aloud from The Tibetan Book of the Deadto guide her through the bardo, the liminal state between her death and her rebirth. Seated...

1. Loving-Kindness
Susan Kaiser Greenland leads us through metta meditation, showing how simple phrases of goodwill can dissolve fear and open the heart to connection.
Buddhist tradition tells of a time, centuries before the common era, when five hundred monks set out to find a quiet clearing in the forest where they could devote themselves fully to meditation without distraction. The grove they choose, though, was...

Andrea Miller: You are an executive producer of the new documentary Wisdom of Happiness. As you define it, what is happiness?
Richard Gere: We all want to be happy, but we have different definitions of what that is. That’s why we have these conflicts in the world: We have different ideas of how the world should be to make us happy....

Why meditate, and what will we learn from doing it? Is it just about reducing stress or finding a little more ease in our lives? Or is it something more?
In the opening lines of the Dhammapada, which is a well-known collection of verses of the Buddha’s teachings, the Buddha declared “mind is the forerunner of all things.”...