Video: Wisdom for a Traumatic Time with Sally Quinn and Robert Waldinger
Many of us are feeling traumatized right now by what’s happening in America and around the world. Zen teacher and psychiatrist Robert Waldinger and renowned journalist Sally Quinn talk with Lion’s Roar editor-in-chief Melvin McLeod about how to make it through.
Where the Dalai Lama’s Reincarnation Will (and Won’t) Be Found
Matteo Pistono on Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle With China, the new book by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. The book, he writes, is the Dalai Lama’s response — not just to Beijing, but to history itself.
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Mindfulness
Mindfulness for Connection, Communication, and Deepening Our Relationships
Read the introduction to the new book “Right Here With You,” edited by Lion’s Roar's Andrea Miller.
Mindfulness Activities, Exercises & Techniques
Discover a variety of mindfulness activities, exercises, and techniques to improve your physical and mental well-being, enhance relationships, and cultivate greater presence in everyday life.
To Practice Mindfulness Is to Return to Life
Thich Nhat Hanh says that mindfulness shows us the suffering of life and connects us with compassion.
Meditation for Kids
Even young children can learn to tune into themselves and the world with curiosity and wonder. Vanessa Zuisei Goddard offers step-by-step instructions for teaching them.
Step Into Awareness with Walking Meditation
Walking meditation is not just an opportunity to stretch our legs, says Koun Franz. It’s a practice in living all of life as meditation.
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Deep Dive
Power & The Practitioner
Buddhist practice, in the popular mind, is conceived of as gentle, even somewhat passive — yet it prizes and cultivates potent powers derived from both oneself and other sources. Join leading Buddhist teachers as they look closely at the powers that we cultivate in dharma practice, from the absolutely practical to the mysterious (and even the supernatural). <br /> <br />
Cultivating the 5 Powers
Author, medical doctor, and Plum Village monastic Sister Dang Nghiem (a.k.a. “Sister D.”) talks about how her teacher Thich Nhat Hanh taught the “five strengths” — faith, diligence, mindfulness, concentration, and insight — and how we can harness them to drive and deepen our dharma practice.
Understanding Self Power & Other Power
Mark Unno explains how giving ourselves over to other power, an idea central to Asian Buddhist thought, can lead us to awakening.
The Dharma of the Second Bell
Rev. Joan Amaral recalls “Operation Bring John Home” — an effort to break through the bureaucracy that kept a married couple apart — while living one’s values and remaining unbowed.
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