Anything Can Happen

Remembering that life is a process of change helps us cope with the unexpected.

Honesty

Learn what it means to be truly honest — with oneself and the world.

Grieving Well

Understand how to grapple with real loss.

Open Awareness

Notice the arising, changing, and passing of sensation, sound, and thought.

Heartbreak

Explore how heartbreak colors, inhabits, and magnifies each and every day.

Solitude and Loneliness

Reduce emotional isolation by accepting your feelings and cultivating connection.

Loneliness

Reflect on how loneliness is "the foundation of belonging."

Embracing Grief & Loss

Hold confusion and sorrow with kindness and care.

Touch

Learn how we are "something for the world to run up against and rub up against."

Just This

Sam and Peter discuss nonduality, degrees of awakening, emotion, teaching, and simplicity.

Haunted

See how "what haunts us is always something that seeks its own disappearance."

The Boundaries of Self

Sam and David discuss David’s poems “Friendship,” “Honesty,” “Ambition,” and “Alone.”

Alone

Recognize how aloneness is an invitation to depth — and an imminent threat.

Doing Philosophy

Discover how philosophy is not "idle speculation" but a path to living well.

Maturity

See how maturity is the ability to live fully and equally in multiple contexts.

Meditation and Personality

Does the project of meditation have anything to do with perfecting the human personality?

Rest

Feel how rest is the essence of giving and receiving.

This Moment of Music and Mud

What we call “significant” often does not signify anything.

Start Close In

Lean into vulnerability and learn how to take the first step.

The Paradox of Responsibility

Examine the role of personal responsibility in the absence of free will.

Disappointment

Understand why disappointment is an inescapable but necessary part of life.

Cause & Effect

Sam dismantles the concept of free will and invites you to join.

Pain

Reflect on how pain immediately acquaints us with "existence itself."

The Present Moment

Text by Thich Nhat Hanh. Savor each moment with gratitude, reverence, and love.

Nostalgia

See how nostalgia tells us we are in the presence of imminent revelation.

Shame and Compassion

What would you say to someone who might feel a fundamental incapacity to feel love for themselves?

Denial

Examine how denial is the crossroads between perception and readiness.

The Search for Silver Linings

Look for silver linings in all of life's setbacks to increase your resilience.

Help

See how help is an absolute necessity — and something we want to do without.

Introduction

Annaka explains her perspective on metta practice, and offers guidance.

Hiding

Discover how hiding is an act of freedom from the misunderstanding of others.

Metta for Friends and Strangers

Extend the practice to someone you love, and consciously wish them happiness.

Joy

Explore how joy is the raw engagement with the passing seasonality of existence.

Compassion and Joy

Sink into the feeling of loving-kindness while wishing wellness toward another.

Anger

Examine how anger might be the deepest form of care.

Bhagavad Gita

Memory

Feel how memory creates a continual but almost untouchable now.

Being With What Is (Annaka Harris)

Learn how to not lose connection with the present moment during stressful times.

Solace

Understand the direct and forceful questions solace asks of us.

Finding Hope

Discover how hope can give us "the courage to conceive alternatives."

Gratitude

See how gratitude functions, and points us toward "the underlying gift of life."

The Lessons of Death

Learn how to be less anxious about death by fully enjoying life in the present.

Regret

See why we must fully experience regret before we focus on the future.

Mindfulness & Meaning

Explore an age-old question: "What is the meaning of it all?"

Despair

Notice how despair takes us in when we have nowhere else to go.

Life, Death, and Vipassana

Discover the freedom of simply staying with the sensations of life.

Shadow

Discover how shadow "makes a presence of absence."

Costs of Procrastination

Research shows it undermines our performance, our well-being, and even our health.

Procrastination

Get a new view of procrastination—and discover that it's not what it seems.

Confronting Injustice

Confront the scope of human misery with compassion and steadfastness.

Run Away

Discover why the urge to run away is "an essence of being human."

Filling the Void

Explore the midlife crisis—and learn how to "live in the halo of the present."

Unconditional

Reflect on what it means to love unconditionally—and how it may not be possible.

Gain and Loss

When we get or lose something we value, we can emotionally react—or calmly respond.

Besieged

Discover why being besieged is "as much a privilege as it is a burden."

Accepting What Constrains You

"By completely embracing limitation, you become free within it."

Ground

Learn what it means to "come to ground"—and why it's a courageous act.

Forgive

Learn about one's experience with loss and grief.

The Truth of Impermanence

Everything that has the nature to arise will also pass away.

Embrace impermanence.

Lean into the truth of impermanence and make contact with the reality of life, now.

Death and Dying

Sam and Frank discuss mortality, bereavement, secular rituals, psychedelics, and more.

See the Cliff

Pondering death can inspire us to live with more presence and empathy.

Finding Silver Linings

When setbacks occur, Stoics look for opportunity, not blame.

Do We Ever Really Know a Person?

Good conversation comes from not knowing what the other person's going to say.

Emotions begin to evaporate the moment you notice them.

Negative emotions are signals that something is worth paying attention to. But how long must we let the alarm bells ring?

Your Lowest Moment

Today, see if you can identify your lowest moment. And when it occurs, bring to mind one thing for which you are deeply grateful.

"It Was Like This: You Were Happy"

Jane reads her poem "It Was Like This: You Were Happy."

Vocabularies of Being

Sam and Jane discuss Jane’s meditation practice and her poems, five of which she recites.

Unrequited Love

Begin to gracefully accept your own feelings, and those you have about others.

Secular Rituals around Death

Alternatives to religious memorials must honor our sense of connection to each other.

Loss in Everyday Life

An examination of how we meet endings in life.

Stop struggling to achieve a meditative state.

Real meditation is not a state of mind—it's the recognition that every experience is indivisible from consciousness itself.

Practicing with Ease

Sam and Nikki discuss Nikki’s precarious childhood, nirvana, compassion, ease, and more.

Life in the Shadow of Death

Sam, Jason, and Miles discuss the life of Amy Rosenthal, the grieving process, and more.

The Obstacle Is the Path

Adversity doesn’t hinder growth, but is the very means by which we build strength.

A Timeless Condition

The challenge of finding happiness in this world arrives with our first breath, and our needs and desires seem to multiply by the hour.