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Insight Meditation teacher Shell Fischer, founder of Mindful Shenandoah Valley, offers her 25+ years of mindfulness training and study in these weekly talks about how we can use meditation p...
A particularly difficult human challenge involves trying to balance a desire to be there for others – both those in our personal lives and i...
The Buddha was once asked "what is the most important thing for us to practice?" He answered: patience (or khanti, in Pali) and assured us t...
We all tend to seek out and hope for gain, status, praise, and pleasure, and resist or fear loss, disgrace, blame, and pain – even though al...
Often during our meditation practice, we encounter a state known as "busy mind," which is when there's a kind of ongoing flow of anxious or...
During difficult times, allowing ourselves to pause, breathe, and come back home to the present moment is exactly how we can regain our foot...
An essential aspect of our meditation practice involves training ourselves to very consciously and compassionately navigate the truth of con...
Instead of resisting, denying, or trying to ignore a big change in our lives or in our world, the Buddhist teachings invite us to open up to...
Our common experience of doubt – in ourselves, and in our ability to make good decisions for ourselves, especially - is actually the very la...
Whenever we experience pain or suffering, our common tendency is to believe that not only is the cause of our suffering in some way wrong, b...
The Buddha insisted that our relationships make up the "whole" of our spiritual life, and and urged us to use our mindfulness practice to be...
As opposed to the act of "striving," which involves a kind of unhealthy or stressful clinging to some sort of expectation, and typically ari...
Whenever we perceive that some sort of harm is being done – either by another person, people, or even on a more national or global level - h...
This talk addresses the question: How can we flow between all the different roles, hats, or identities that we place on ourselves every day,...
Right before the Buddha's enlightenment, a single memory from his childhood apparently not only led him to nirvana, but to the profound teac...
The Buddhist teachings are continually calling our attention to the truth of what is called annica , or impermanence, because essentially, i...
As the Buddha's teachings remind us over and over, even though it's difficult, we never want to let another person's anger, disrespect, or c...
While the Buddha assured us that it's healthy to be aware of all our different intentions, he also suggested that once we've planted the see...
When we practice what the Buddha called The Middle Way, we start to realize with more clarity that contentment resides at the center of our...
In order for us to practice well, we need to learn how to create and then dwell in a quality the Buddha called Noble Silence – something tha...
In the Buddhist teachings, the practice of dana (or generosity) is considered the number one heart quality that we are urged to cultivate, i...
As the Buddha tells us, rejecting, avoiding, or pushing away the reality of the moment - which might be unpleasant - is one of the main ways...
Most of us tend to grapple with what is considered an ancient human torment: the challenge of trying to balance a need for self-care, along...
In the Buddhist teachings, the Buddha urged us to very consciously be on the lookout for harmful qualities he called "The Near Enemies," – q...
The Buddha was once asked "what is the most important thing for us to practice?" And his answer was simple: patience (or khanti, in Pali). H...
In the Buddhist teachings it is said that there are 8 different "winds" or conditions that we either hope for, or fear - all of which are co...
Whenever we think of the word "home" we often think of a kind of brick and mortar "place" where we can physically dwell. But in the Buddhist...
Modern science has now shown us that what the Buddha was trying to tell us more than 2600 years ago is spot on: that by consciously choosing...
While the Buddha assured us that our meditation practice is the path to freedom, he also explained that in order for us to achieve a more pr...
Modern science has shown us that our words are not harmless: they have the very real power to not only affect our actual brains, but to eith...
Apologizing is such a challenging skill that the Buddha himself said that learning to do it well is "THE essential factor in achieving purit...
Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh suggests that instead of focusing on everything that's wrong with ourselves, other people, or the world … we shou...
The Buddhist teachings warn us of 5 main challenging and complicated mental states that block, confuse, or "hinder" our ability to more full...
A common expression among those who practice Insight Meditation is "don't believe everything you think," which points to the idea that in or...
The Buddha taught that you can search the entire universe for someone more deserving of your love and compassion than yourself, and you will...
As the Buddhist teachings show us, our deepest source of pain and suffering arises from our delusion that we are somehow separate from one a...
In the Buddhist teachings, we are asked to use our meditation practice as a way to reflect on the profound truth of anicca, or impermanence:...
In the Buddha's teachings on Wise or Right Livelihood, we are urged to shine a strong light on what we're believing about our own worth, as...
One day, when the Buddha was just 8 years old and upset, he decided to offer himself both calm and compassion by very naturally sitting in w...
The Buddha's last words to us were said to be: " All conditioned things are impermanent; strive on with diligence! " In these difficult time...
Whenever there seems to be a gap between what is , and how we want it to be – whether this means a situation, person, ourselves, or life its...
The Buddhist nun Pema Chodron suggests that we remember to ask ourselves one key question, every day: " Since death is certain, and the timi...
In the Buddhist tradition we are asked to develop a quality called Noble Silence, which serves not only as a sacred vehicle for us, but is a...
The Buddhist teachings offer us numerous ways of praying, yet people often ask: in this non-theistic tradition, what does it mean to do this...
The teachings show us that setting healthy boundaries with others is an incredibly important skill that can help us to live with more balanc...
One of the most essential teachings of the Buddha can be found in a single and famous line of advise from him, which is, " Be a lamp unto yo...
According to the Buddhist teachings, one of the main ways that we suffer is by trying to hold onto or even control that which is inherently...
In order for each of us feel understood, and cared for, it's important that our hearts are both seen, and heard. And while our listening ski...
As we slowly begin to emerge from this difficult time in our history, it's essential for us to remember that we've all experienced loss this...
According to the Buddha, choosing good relationships in this life doesn't just constitute part of our spiritual development, but in fact the...
The Buddha tells us that our relationships are "the whole of this spiritual life"; that in fact they can greatly determine both our happines...