Dec 12, 2025
Imagine feeling a burst of joy every time someone else wins. A friend gets a promotion, your sister finds love, a stranger shares good news, and you feel happiness with them. That spark of delight is the heart of sympathetic joy, or mudita, a Buddhist practice that flips the script on comparison and jeaousy. It turns...
Nov 30, 2025
We constantly make small choices that shape the reality of our relationships, whether with our partner, children, friends, or colleagues. They determine whether we deepen connection or cause resentment and distance to quietly grow.
Every moment holds a fork in the road: Will I feed love, or will I feed pain?
In this...
Nov 5, 2025
Longtime Buddhist Teacher, JoAnn Fox, explores five powerful Buddhist antidotes to anger and aversion:
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patience acceptance
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recognizing karma
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remembering impermanence
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seeing other people or challenges as spiritual teachers
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compassion
Learn how to meet challenges with wisdom instead of reaction. Buddha...
Oct 24, 2025
Delusions are distorted ways of looking at things that make our mind unpeaceful and uncontrolled. Anger exaggerates someone’s faults. Attachment exaggerates someone’s good qualities. Both lead us away from reality and keep us trapped in craving or aversion.
Buddha taught that what fuels delusions is inappropriate...
Oct 19, 2025
In this episode, JoAnn Fox shares the practice of W.A.I.T.—What Am I Thinking? to help us cultivate self-compassion and retrain the often-critical voice in our minds. Through mindfulness, we can begin to notice the thoughts that shape how we treat ourselves, and choose a kinder, more beneficial way to respond.
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