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Join “Medicine for Fear,” our new online, self-paced course launching May 31.
Following the May 14 mass shooting that killed 10 people and injured three in a racist attack at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, Zenzele Isoke calls on practitioners to challenge gun culture.
True equanimity, says Kaira Jewel Lingo, is not in any way detached or uncaring—it’s inclusive, and loving, and the foundation for spiritual courage.
For Malcolm X Day, four Buddhist practitioners and teachers offer their commentary on Malcolm X’s spiritual journey.
On this episode of the Lion’s Roar Podcast, Dr. Shoshana Ungerlieder talks about the taboo of death and dying among medical professionals.
On Monday, a second annual Vesak celebration was held at the White House honoring the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha.
True equanimity, says Kaira Jewel Lingo, is not in any way detached or uncaring—it’s inclusive, and loving, and the foundation for spiritual courage.
Join “Medicine for Fear,” our new online, self-paced course launching May 31.
Following the May 14 mass shooting that killed 10 people and injured three in a racist attack at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, Zenzele Isoke calls on practitioners to challenge gun culture.
For Malcolm X Day, four Buddhist practitioners and teachers offer their commentary on Malcolm X’s spiritual journey.
On this episode of the Lion’s Roar Podcast, Dr. Shoshana Ungerlieder talks about the taboo of death and dying among medical professionals.
On Monday, a second annual Vesak celebration was held at the White House honoring the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha.
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The May 2022 issue of Lion’s Roar celebrates the life of the Vietnamese Buddhist teacher and founder of Engaged Buddhism, Thich Nhat Hanh.
“The next Buddha may be a sangha,” Thich Nhat Hanh famously said, and the practice of community was always central to his life and teachings. Dharma teacher Mitchell Ratner experienced the wonders, lessons, and challenges of living the mindful life at Plum Village.
Pico Iyer thought he would find what is truly real by going off to a monastery, but he was really fleeing it. Dropping his spiritual romaticism, he found it in ordinary life.
The foundation of the Pure Land path, explains Takashi Miyaji, is Amitabha Buddha’s vow to liberate anyone who calls on him.
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Meditation comes alive through a growing capacity to release our habitual conflicts and worries that make up our sense of self, and to rest in awareness.
Lama Tsutrim Allione teaches you an innovative technique, based on the Tibetan Buddhist principles of “Chöd,” to turn your inner demons into friends.
Good luck with that. What you can do, says Jules Shuzen Harris, is change your relationship with your thoughts.
I’m confused about all the different terms for meditation, like shamatha, vipassana, zazen, mindfulness, calm abiding, insight, just sitting. What’s what?
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If you find all the bad news overwhelming, Buddhist teacher Judy Lief has some meditations to help you…
If you find all the bad news overwhelming, Buddhist teacher Judy Lief has some meditations to help you…
If you find all the bad news overwhelming, Buddhist teacher Judy Lief has some meditations to help you…
Emptiness is not something to be afraid of, says Thich Nhat Hanh. The Heart Sutra teaches us that form may be empty of self but it’s full of everything else.
John Tarrant demystifies Zen koan practice. Yes, it’s paradoxical, poetic, and totally personal. And so is life.
Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings were always profound and practical, showing us effective ways to apply Buddhism’s deepest insights in our own lives. Here he draws on Buddhist and modern psychology to teach us how to cultivate the habit of happiness.
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.”
As a dharma teacher, says Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, she’s told she shouldn’t feel or express rage, but she disagrees.
Shozan Jack Haubner presents a prayer for the chaotic awakening of nature that is spring.
Four Buddhists explore how the life and work of the Black, feminist, lesbian poet Audre Lorde serves as a gateway to the dharma
Susan Yao explores how Buddhist principles could help us reimagine the American school system.
Dhondup T. Rekjong tells the story of Ngakpa Kalzang, an exile of Tibet and experienced tantric Buddhist practitioner working as a landscaper on Canada’s Vancouver Island.
Avery Grace reflects on what to do when we harm others, how we can move forward, and the compassion we need for ourselves to do better.
The Spring 2022 issue of Buddhadharma features in-depth teachings and commentaries on living the six paramitas, or perfections.
At the heart of the path of the paramitas is prajna, or wisdom — but a wisdom that goes beyond our conventional ideas about it. Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche unpacks how that kind of wisdom works.
Koun Franz considers what it means when a path of transcendence leaves us right where we always were.
Sister Clear Grace Dayananda left the monastery, packed her life into a little van, and went out into the world to meet people where they are and where they are suffering. Here, she considers khanti, the paramita of forbearance, and the work it requires.
How do we practice ethical conduct, or sila, without falling into judgment, and without ignoring the complexity of each moment? According to Norman Fischer, the way has always been there.
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