DIY Dharma
How to bring genuine Buddhist wisdom and practice into your life—even if you don’t have a teacher or community.
•  5 meditations you can do right now
•  10 Buddhist books you should have
•  How to keep going when obstacles arise
•  Putting your meditation into action

PLUS:
Honoring Thich Nhat Hanh 
Ebola Survivor Ashoka Mukpo
Chef Bryant Terry 

Are people basically good? Against the odds, Buddhism says yes!

The Sun of Basic Goodness
Original Sin vs. Original Goodness
Yes But... The Problem of Evil
The New Science of Goodness

Plus:
Kayla Mueller, Bodhisattva
Peter Coyote’s Zen
Healing After the Loss of a Child 

Compassion Changes Everything
If you want to be unhappy, think of yourself. 
If you want to be happy, think of others. 
—Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

5 Baby Steps to Kindness
Judy Lief’s tips to develop more compassion

Everyone Is Your Guest
How to be a bodhisattva

No Boundary
Why love and emptiness work together

Radical Compassion
4 activists working for a better world

• Ello’s Paul Budnitz
• Brooklyn Zen
• 5 Buddhist Slogans for the Office
• Buddha’s Birds

Get Off the Wheel of Habit
How to free yourself from habitual patterns of thinking, relating, and acting. 
It’s the whole point of Buddhist meditation. (They don’t call it the Wheel of Life for nothing.)

Helpful teachings & techniques from:
Thich Nhat Hanh
Sylvia Boorstein
Tsoknyi Rinpoche

ABC anchor Dan Harris talks meditation with Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein & Mark Epstein.

The Wisdom of Anger:
Learn how you can benefit yourself and others by transforming anger into wisdom and compassion.

The Poison Tree:
An Anger Meditation in 4 Steps

How RAIN Quells the Flames of Anger

5 Mind-Training Slogans to Transform Anger

The Angry Buddha: The Enlightened  Power of No

Plus:
Kack Kornfield
Thich Nhat Hanh
Gina Sharpe
The Teachings of Paul Newman

Your Guide to Buddhist Meditation

Learn a wealth of meditation techniques to develop calm, awareness, wisdom & love.

Insight Meditation
Loving-Kindness
Zen Meditation
Visualization
Walking Meditation
Dzogchen
and more…

Let Your Confidence Shine

A Punk Looks at Fifty

The Buddhas of West 17th

The real problem with distraction: It keeps you from enlightenment.

Judy Lief, Thich Nhat Hanh,
Sharon Salzberg, and
John Tarrant offer
Buddhism’s deeper take on a
modern obsession.

• George Saunders on Kindness
• The Way of Freerunning
• Going Full Superman

“You can connect with the mind of nowness at any moment”
Pema Chödrön’s 4 Keys to Waking Up

Rise Up!
bell hooks & Eve Ensler 

GPS for the Mind
Sylvia Boorstein

Thanks to Yoko
Lisa Carver

Ruth Ozeki • Natalie Goldberg • Getting Beyond Blame • Does the Buddha Ever Lie?

Thich Nhat Hanh
Joyful Giving
What Makes Us Free?
Be a Lamp Unto Yourself
Ram Dass
How to Practice Metta
Are You Truly Listening?
Anyen Rinpoche

Spiritual but not religious?
10 ways Buddhism will enrich your path

Alice Walker: Her life, work, and spiritual journey

Where Buddhism and Comedy Meet: It’s funny because it’s true

Sharon Salzberg & Robert Thurman

How to Help a Sick Friend

Dag Hammarskjöld

"You are perfect the way you are... and you could use a little improvement." - Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

The Buddhist Approach to Becoming a Better Person:
Sylvia Boorstein, Dzigar Rinpoche, John Tarrant, Mary Pipher, Karen Maezen Miller

At Home with the Dalai Lama

Pema Chödrön on Why We Meditate

Margaret Cho: Drop Dead Funny

No Time to Meditate?

Seth Greenland on Angry America

Can Buddhists Believe in God?

Your Body
Pleasure, pain, performance, path.

What Is Your Body?
Contemplating its deeper reality.

Flesh Sex Desire
Karen Connelly feels the heat.

Now the Bad News
Birth, old age, sickness, and death.

The Path of Perceptions
Sight, sound, touch, and other miracles.

In the Zone
Playing with your practice.

Mindful Movements
Try the Thich Nhat Hanh workout.

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