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Ram Dass: To Love & Serve
Sara Davidson
Sara Davidson remembers the American spiritual icon Ram Dass in the May 2020 issue of Lion’s Roar magazine.
The Sunlight of Awareness
Thich Nhat Hanh
Shine the warm light of awareness on your thoughts and feelings, says Thich Nhat Hanh.
The Lion’s Roar Podcast: Silent Illumination with Guo Gu
Sandra Hannebohm
Buddhadharma editor Koun Franz in conversation with Chan teacher and author Guo Gu.
This Life, Which is Wonderful and Evanescent
Blanche Hartman
Blanche Hartman explains one of the Buddha’s most significant teachings—impermanence—and discusses how it can bring great happiness.
Why Did Six Asian Women Have to Die in Order to be Seen?
Butterfly Tony Pham
Butterfly (Tony Pham) offers a call to responsibility in memory of the six Asian women shot and killed near Atlanta on March 16.
The Sunlight of Awareness
Thich Nhat Hanh
Shine the warm light of awareness on your thoughts and feelings, says Thich Nhat Hanh.
Watch videos from Harvard’s 2021 Buddhism and Race Speaker Series
Ross Nervig
Harvard University’s Buddhism and Race Conference present the Radical Re-Orientation Speaker Series.
Ram Dass: To Love & Serve
Sara Davidson
Sara Davidson remembers the American spiritual icon Ram Dass in the May 2020 issue of Lion’s Roar magazine.
The Lion’s Roar Podcast: Silent Illumination with Guo Gu
Sandra Hannebohm
Buddhadharma editor Koun Franz in conversation with Chan teacher and author Guo Gu.
This Life, Which is Wonderful and Evanescent
Blanche Hartman
Blanche Hartman explains one of the Buddha’s most significant teachings—impermanence—and discusses how it can bring great happiness.
Why Did Six Asian Women Have to Die in Order to be Seen?
Butterfly Tony Pham
Butterfly (Tony Pham) offers a call to responsibility in memory of the six Asian women shot and killed near Atlanta on March 16.
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How to Look at a Wall
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Jules Shuzen Harris teaches Zazen, the meditation practice at the heart of Zen Buddhism.
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We can’t just blindly meditate, says Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche. Our practice must be illuminated by deep, critical study of the Buddhist teachings.
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Practice along with Buddhist teacher Kate Lila Wheeler on her journey to becoming “a tender, flawed, slightly braver human being.”
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Mushim Patricia Ikeda teaches us how to generate loving-kindness and good will as an antidote to hatred and fear.
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How Not to Freak Out
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Seasons of Awakening
Joan Sutherland
Joan Sutherland shares why we must learn to trust the ebbs and flows of awakening — agreeing to all of its seasons and tides.
The Problem With Problems
Judy Lief
The more we increase our ability to deal with our own difficulties, the more aware we are that we can’t solve the troubles of loved ones.
The Four Noble Truths
Jan Willis
Buddhist teacher and scholar Jan Willis on the Buddha’s central teaching — his diagnosis and cure for suffering.
All Beings Liberating, Together, At Once
Judy Roitman
Judy Roitman unpacks the Mahayana vision. “The essence of this vision,” she says, “is a universe in which time and space are flexible, and in which beings are neither separate nor dissolved in each other.”
Healing America’s Racial Karma
Larry Ward
More than 150 years after the end of slavery, America’s tragic racial karma rolls on.
LIFE & CULTURE
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Be Kind to Yourself
Pema Khandro Rinpoche
You have enlightened nature, says Pema Khandro Rinpoche. If you truly know that, you’ll always be kind to yourself.
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Tens of times a day, Diana Winston’s two-year-old daughter helps her practice letting go.
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This special episode of The Lion’s Roar Podcast features music from Buddhist artists Jessica Pimentel and Born I Music.
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Rebecca Li
In this complex and interconnected world, living ethically has never been more challenging—or more important.
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Five Buddhist teachers share practices to clear away the poisons that cause suffering and obscure your natural enlightenment. Introduction by Lion’s Roar’s editor-in-chief Melvin Mcleod.
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Valerie Brown
Valerie Brown returns to gardening to recover her broken spirit, and discovers what really grows in a garden is love.
BUDDHADHARMA
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The Spring 2021 issue of Buddhadharma features in-depth teachings on the nature of mind for cultivating your Buddhist practice and manifesting those teachings meaningfully in everyday life.
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Whatever answers you think you have, says Judy Roitman, you don’t—and in that not knowing, we find the heart of Buddhist practice.
59 Ways to Turn Your Mind Around
Gaylon Ferguson
The way to bodhicitta, the mind of compassion, is marked by the fifty-nine lojong slogans. Gaylon Ferguson points us in the right direction.
The Buddhist Science of Mind
Michael Sheehy
Michael Sheehy reviews “Science and Philosophy in Indian and Buddhist Classics, Vol. 2: The Mind.”
Empty, Pure, Luminous: Mind in Dzogchen and Mahamudra
Roger R. Jackson
Roger R. Jackson explains how different Tibetan schools approach the nature of mind, and why it matters.