Getting Started
7 days · free
Seven short days that introduce the shape of a daily practice: a teaching, a sit, one action, one reflection.
Ten ways to walk it, one day at a time
Each day in every path has the same four steps: a short passage, a sit, one action and one question. Pick a path, or simply follow today’s practice.
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Daily Practice
28 practices, repeating · free
Twenty-eight practices that repeat in a fixed four-week cycle, chosen by the calendar date. Always available, always free.
Themed paths · Day 1 free, the rest in Daily Dharma Plus
- 01The Eightfold Path21 daysTwenty-one days through the eight factors as the early texts define them, with a daily sit and one real-world action each.
- 0214 Days of Metta14 daysTwo weeks of goodwill practice: for yourself, a friend, a stranger, a difficult person, and everyone at once.
- 03Right Speech in Real Life14 daysFourteen days on how we talk: messages, meetings, criticism, silence, and repair, each grounded in a short passage.
- 04The Four Noble Truths10 daysTen days on the teaching the early texts put first: what suffering is, where it comes from, that it can end, and the way there.
- 05Working with Difficult Emotions14 daysTwo weeks of practical tools from the discourses for pain, anger, worry and distraction: the two darts, five methods for unwanted thoughts, patience.
- 06The Body as Home14 daysFourteen days of mindfulness of the body: breathing, postures, everyday awareness, walking, eating and the elements.
- 07Giving and Gratitude7 daysA week on generosity and gratitude as the texts describe them: what giving does for the giver, timely gifts, and what is hard to repay.
- 08Change and Letting Go10 daysTen days with the texts on aging, loss and change, and the steadiness they point to.