Three Questions for Coming Back to Now

Buddhist practitioner Leslie Davis offers three questions you can ask yourself to reel your running mind back to the present moment.

Leslie Davis

True Liberation: Black & Buddhist in America

Recently the nonprofit organizatoin Dharma Relief awarded fellowships to Black Buddhist leaders for their work supporting Black communities. Here, Lion’s Roar’s Pamela Ayo Yetunde hosts a roundtable conversation with four of those fellows: Jean Marie Robbins, Pamela Freeman, Ramona Lisa Ortiz-Smith, and Victoria Cary. Bringing their lived experience to bear, they talk about how Buddhist practice is helping Black people heal from the impact of racism and discover inner peace.

Pamela Ayo Yetunde

Featured

How to Be a Bodhisattva

It may seem like an unattainable ideal, but you can start right now as a bodhisattva-in-training. All you need is the aspiration to put others first.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness

How to Have Mindful Sex

Slowing your mind is not just great foreplay, says Cheryl Fraser, it also leads to a deeper connection with your partner.

Cheryl Fraser

How to Be a Mindful Bodhisattva

Mindfulness is more than just a meditation practice. Mindfulness is life, and life is love. That’s why it’s the whole path of the bodhisattva, says Zen teacher Norman Fischer.

Norman Fischer

How to Do Walking Meditation

Arinna Weisman and Jean Smith shed light on a common yet often misunderstood meditative practice, via simple-to-follow instructions.

Lion’s Roar

Mindful Movements

Thich Nhat Hanh offers three exercises for well-being, "a wonderful way of connecting your mind and body in mindfulness."

Thich Nhat Hanh

Advice

Turn Your Thinking Upside Down

We base our lives on seeking happiness and avoiding suffering, but the best thing we can do for ourselves is to turn this whole way of thinking upside down.

PEMA CHÖDRÖN

Magazine

May 2024

Current Issue

10 Ways to Find True Happiness

Introduced by Kaira Jewel Lingo, ten Black dharma teachers dive deep into the paramis, the ten qualities of enlightened beings.

Lion’s Roar

In This Issue

The Revolution Begins with the Self

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True Liberation: Black & Buddhist in America

Pamela Ayo Yetunde

A Thousand Thoughts, A Thousand Pieces

Roberval Oliveira

Hands of Compassion

Allyson Pimentel

Lion’s Roar Book Reviews May 2024

Arleta Little

Recent Podcasts

Mindfulness in Your Workplace with Stacey McClendon

Mindfulness in Your Workplace with Stacy McClendon

Stacy McClendon, teacher and co-founder of the BIPOC Sangha at Common Ground Meditation Center, talks with Lion's Roar's Pamela Ayo Yetunde about how mindfulness can transform the way we work.

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Meditation 103 with Michael and Victoria Imperioli

White Lotus and Sopranos actor Michael Imperioli is also a novelist, screenwriter, director and musician. He and his partner Victoria Imperioli, a well-known interior designer, talk about how Buddhism informs their life together as artists and entrepreneurs.