Zen Stories & Buddhist Teachings for Sleep by Midnight Monk

Rest Without Effort... Fall Asleep to Zen Stories & Buddhist Teachings for the Overthinking Mind

Tonight we explore what happens when we stop trying so hard to be calm. Peace can easily turn into one more thing to achieve, and the effort itself can keep us awake. The

How to Stay at Peace When Life Gets Difficult - Fall Asleep to Buddhist Teachings & Zen Stories for Deep Peace and Rest

Tonight we explore a simple idea from the Buddha's teachings that can change how we move through difficult moments: the freedom to respond instead of react. When life get

Zen Stories for Letting Go - Fall Asleep to Buddhist Teachings for Deep Peace and Acceptance

Tonight we explore acceptance, one of the quietest and most freeing teachings in Zen and Buddhism. So much of our tension comes from wishing things were different: the da

Open Your Heart... Fall Asleep to Buddhist Stories & Zen Teachings for Deep Peace

Tonight, we explore what it means to find peace without closing the heart. Many of us come to meditation hoping for calm, and we find some. Over time, though, that calm c

Fall Asleep to Buddhist Tales for Peace - A Gentle Journey through Zen Buddhism

Tonight we slow down with the wisdom of Zen Buddhism and the timeless teachings of the Buddha, for anyone whose mind is still busy long after the day has ended. Through g

Let People Be Who They Are - Fall Asleep to Buddhist Teachings & Zen Stories for Peace & Letting Go

Tonight we explore what the Buddha and the Zen masters understood about the people closest to us, and why the ones we love are so often the ones we find hardest to accept

Zen Stories to Calm Your Mind for Sleep... Rest to Buddhist Teachings for Deep Peace

Tonight is for the overthinking mind: the one that keeps working long after the day has ended, replaying conversations, rehearsing tomorrow, turning small worries into he

Let Life Be As It Is - Fall Asleep to Buddhist Stories & Zen Teachings for Rest and Relaxation

Tonight we sit with some of the oldest stories in the Zen tradition, teachings about the weight we carry without realizing it, and how little effort it actually takes to

You Don't Have To Fix Everything… Fall Asleep to Gentle Zen Stories & Buddhist Teachings for Rest

Tonight, we explore the possibility that life does not need to be finished before we are allowed to rest. Through Buddhist wisdom, Zen stories, and gentle reflection, thi

A Mind At Rest... Fall Asleep to Buddhist Teachings & Zen Stories on No-Mind

Tonight we sit with a teaching the Zen masters called no-mind, or mushin: a way of being fully present without getting caught in the thoughts that pass through us. This

The Buddha's Path to Happiness - Sleep to Gentle Buddhist Stories & Zen Teachings for Peace

Tonight we explore the Buddha's recipe for happiness. He did not describe happiness as something that arrives when life goes your way. He described a small set of qualiti

Zen Stories to Quiet the Thinking Mind... Fall Asleep to Buddhist Teachings for Lasting Peace

Tonight we explore why peace so rarely comes from being told about it, and what the old Zen teachers did instead. Rather than explain, they showed. A stone, a cup, a seed

The Unshaken Mind - Fall Asleep to Zen Stories & Buddhist Teachings for Deep Peace

Tonight we explore one of the most quietly powerful teachings in Buddhism: equanimity, the balanced mind that stays steady through praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasu

Buddhist Stories to Help You Let Go and Fall Asleep - Zen Buddhism for Rest

Tonight, we slow down and practice the quiet art of letting go. Through Zen stories for sleep and gentle Buddhist teachings, we explore attachment, acceptance, self-compa

Everything Changes - Sleep to Gentle Buddhist Teachings & Zen Stories for Peace and Rest

Tonight we will learn about the storms that pass through the mind. The moods that arrive without warning, stay longer than we would like, and leave as suddenly as they ca

Fall Asleep to Life-Changing Zen Wisdom - Buddhist Stories & Teachings for Deep Sleep

Tonight we will go on a long, slow journey through Buddhist teachings and Zen stories for sleep. We move gently from the first stirrings of restlessness to the discovery

A Taste of Freedom - Sleep to Calming Buddhist Teachings & Zen Tales for Rest and Relaxation

Tonight we explore a simple idea at the heart of Zen and Buddhist teaching: that peace, and freedom, was never something to earn or arrive at, but something already here,

The Best Buddhist Teachings for Deep Peace - Life-Changing Zen Stories to Fall Asleep To

Tonight, we will journey through ancient tales of wisdom as we fall asleep to gentle Zen stories and Buddhist teachings for sleep. Together we walk through the weight we

When the Mind Feels Heavy... Gentle Buddhist Teachings & Stories for Sleep and Rest

Tonight we explore one of the oldest teachings in Buddhism: that the heart has weather. Some days are clear and warm, and everything feels easy. Other days, a heaviness r

The Freedom of Letting Go: Fall Asleep to Zen Stories & Buddhist Teachings for Deep Peace

Tonight we explore one of the most freeing teachings in all of Buddhism: the mind that does not cling. More than two thousand years ago, the Buddha taught that the grip o