Train your mind to respond, not react.

Most of us know the mindful response — we just don’t choose it in the moment. Each day brings five short items, two honest options each, and no right answer.

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Kindness Letting Go Patience Right Speech Mindfulness
Mindfulness at the centre, four concepts around it. The item is a real one from the app; the lean marks are illustrative.

Something your partner said stung. You’re in the car with their parents.

Say it while it’s true Wait until you’re home

Two honest options. Neither is marked correct.

Every item is something a thoughtful person might do either way. You get a check-in on what you noticed, something you already did, and something you might do. Nothing is scored. If a situation didn’t come up, you say so, and it counts as nothing at all.

Noticed
A check-in on what you noticed today.
Did
Something you already did, answered honestly.
Might
Something you might do, if this came up. Two options, and a way to skip.
Today’s practice in the app: ‘Something your partner said stung. You’re in the car with their parents.’ with two options, ‘Say it while it’s true’ and ‘Wait until you’re home’, and a ‘Skip this one’ link.

Five concepts, each a real tension.

Not virtues to score. Each day you meet one item from each, and your answers place you somewhere between two poles a thoughtful person could reach for.

  1. Sparing them Telling them

  2. Softening it Letting it land

  3. Waiting Pressing

  4. Setting it down Keeping it live

  5. Letting it pass Marking it

The Patterns screen in the app: under Right Speech, a line from ‘Sparing them’ to ‘Telling them’ with two marks, and the note ‘You lean toward sparing them (72%), and that is how it went in practice too.’

The gap is the insight.

Patterns marks two points on each concept: what you would do, and what you did. Most people predict they will be more patient, or more honest, than they turn out to be. Patterns shows that distance instead of hiding it.

Patience

WaitingPressing

Right Speech

Sparing themTelling them

Would do Did The gap Illustrative values.
How Patterns works

For the moments between sessions.

Ask Buddha

Describe what’s happening and get a calm, reflective perspective inspired by Buddhist teachings. Two questions a day on the Free Path, twenty on the Enlightened Path.

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The Ask Buddha screen, with a text box reading ‘Describe what’s on your mind…’ and ‘2 questions today’.

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Four guided techniques from Buddhist tradition: Sama (Box) Breathing, Ānāpānasati, Mettā and Vase Breathing. Sama is free; the other three are part of the Enlightened Path.

About the techniques
The Breathing screen, with a blue lotus-shaped guide that expands and contracts.

What it is, and what it isn’t.

More in the plan comparison.

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What would Buddha do…

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Kindness Letting Go Patience Right Speech Mindfulness
The five concepts. Ring: what you would do. Dot: what you did. Red: the gap. Illustrative.

Begin with today’s five.

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