Community & Relationships

Building selfless, loving relationships is a skill we all can learn. Easwaran’s teachings on relationships show you how to become a more patient, loving person, and include practical tips you can start using today.

Inspiration

Featured Easwaran Article

  • A Love That Lasts

    All relationships require a great deal of patient, selfless work, Easwaran explains in this article. He also shares how the capacity for this work is within each and everyone of us.

    Read this article

Easwaran's Teachings on Community & Relationships

  • Choose Kindness

    Being kind doesn’t mean being a doormat, Easwaran explains. He gives tips on training your mind to be strong, calm, and compassionate in all situations.

  • Living in Harmony With Others & Ourselves

    In this audio talk, Easwaran shares anecdotes and strategies for finding harmony with others and ourselves in daily life.

  • Dealing Calmly With Criticism

    In this four-minute video clip, Easwaran offers practical advice, and a touch of humor, to help us face criticism with a calm, inquisitive mind.

Featured BMCM Community Story

  • Seeking Unity Within Disagreement

    In this interview, Drew shares the different ways his spiritual practice helps him find unity with those around him.

    Read this story

More Stories From the BMCM Community

  • Building Trust & Digging In

    Systematically and enthusiastically, Jim and Beth have been using their relationship as a training ground for learning to love the whole world.

  • The Mantram as a Tool for Transforming Difficult Relationships

    Chris shares how she used the mantram to stay kind over the long haul in a difficult working relationship.

  • The Path to Detachment

    Sheryl describes how she transformed a negative tendency into a more loving one, using her practice of the eight points.

Featured Passage for Meditation

  • You Must Forget Yourself in Prayer

    This short passage from Jewish mysticism goes to the heart of cultivating harmony in all our relationships.

    Read this passage

More Passages About Community & Relationships

  • Finding Unity

    Lao Tzu

  • Self-Surrender

    Mahatma Gandhi

  • Give Up Anger

    The Dhammapada

  • Four Things That Bring Much Inward Peace

    Thomas à Kempis

  • The Way of Love

    The Bhagavad Gita

  • Lord, I Bring Thee My Treasure

    Mechthild of Magdeburg

Find Community in a BMCM Satsang

  • Community

    Connect with passage meditators around the world to get support and inspiration for your practice of passage meditation.

    Learn more