Lion’s Roar welcomes three new Associate Editors
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Lion’s Roar would like to welcome three new associate editors to our team who will focus on the much-needed work of promoting voices of Buddhists of color.
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How to Support Myanmar’s Activists and Civil Disobedience Movement
Khin Mai Aung
Khin Mai Aung shares how Buddhists and other allies can support Myanmar’s activists and Civil Disobedience Movement in the aftermath of the February 2021 military coup.
Loving-Kindness: May All Beings Be Happy
Melvin Escobar
Melvin Escobar teaches metta, a concentration practice to cultivate unconditional goodwill for all. In precarious times like these, it’s a way to listen to our hearts.
What Is Sangha?
Thich Nhat Hanh
Thich Nhat Hanh explains that sangha is more than a community, it’s a deep spiritual practice.
Funie Hsu and Chenxing Han Discuss “May We Gather” Ceremony
Nancy Chu
Lion’s Roar associate editor Nancy Chu spoke with Funie Hsu and Chenxing Han about “May We Gather,” a memorial ceremony held by Buddhist leaders in the face of rising anti-Asian American violence across the U.S.
“May We Gather” Buddhist memorial ceremony offers Asian American community space to heal
Mihiri Tillakaratne
Lion’s Roar associate editor Mihiri Tillakaratne reports on “May We Gather,” the national Buddhist memorial Ceremony for Asian American ancestors.
Loving-Kindness: May All Beings Be Happy
Melvin Escobar
Melvin Escobar teaches metta, a concentration practice to cultivate unconditional goodwill for all. In precarious times like these, it’s a way to listen to our hearts.
Lion’s Roar welcomes three new Associate Editors
Lion's Roar Staff
Lion’s Roar would like to welcome three new associate editors to our team who will focus on the much-needed work of promoting voices of Buddhists of color.
How to Support Myanmar’s Activists and Civil Disobedience Movement
Khin Mai Aung
Khin Mai Aung shares how Buddhists and other allies can support Myanmar’s activists and Civil Disobedience Movement in the aftermath of the February 2021 military coup.
What Is Sangha?
Thich Nhat Hanh
Thich Nhat Hanh explains that sangha is more than a community, it’s a deep spiritual practice.
Funie Hsu and Chenxing Han Discuss “May We Gather” Ceremony
Nancy Chu
Lion’s Roar associate editor Nancy Chu spoke with Funie Hsu and Chenxing Han about “May We Gather,” a memorial ceremony held by Buddhist leaders in the face of rising anti-Asian American violence across the U.S.
“May We Gather” Buddhist memorial ceremony offers Asian American community space to heal
Mihiri Tillakaratne
Lion’s Roar associate editor Mihiri Tillakaratne reports on “May We Gather,” the national Buddhist memorial Ceremony for Asian American ancestors.
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How to Practice Wise Intention
Sylvia Boorstein
Regularly remind yourself of your intentions, advises Sylvia Boorstein. It’s the key to keeping your life on target.
How to Practice Zazen
Jules Shuzen Harris
Jules Shuzen Harris teaches Zazen, the meditation practice at the heart of Zen Buddhism.
Why Meditation isn’t Enough
Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche
We can’t just blindly meditate, says Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche. Our practice must be illuminated by deep, critical study of the Buddhist teachings.
How Meditation Works (In My Life, Anyway)
Kate Lila Wheeler
Practice along with Buddhist teacher Kate Lila Wheeler on her journey to becoming “a tender, flawed, slightly braver human being.”
How to Practice Metta for a Troubled Time
Mushim Patricia Ikeda
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
If you find all the bad news overwhelming, Buddhist teacher Judy Lief has some meditations to help you…
How Not to Freak Out
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BUDDHIST WISDOM
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The 4 Noble Truths of Emotional Suffering
Anyen Rinpoche
The Buddha laid out a four-step path to freedom from difficult emotions. Anyen Rinpoche says the secret is understanding why our emotions cause suffering.
Healing America’s Racial Karma
Larry Ward
More than 150 years after the end of slavery, America’s tragic racial karma rolls on.
More Truth, Less Suffering
Anushka Fernandopulle
Anushka Fernandopulle on how mindfulness reduces the suffering caused by our collective sense of separation.
Be Free of Suffering
Pema Chödrön
Pema Chödrön offers a bodhicitta practice for generating love and compassion for all human beings.
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.
LIFE & CULTURE
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From Blame to Love
Tara Brach
We humans are gifted at finding fault. Buddhist teacher Tara Brach teaches us how we can connect to compassion instead.
Boredom Is Fascinating!
Josh Korda
When we’re bored, we’re uncomfortable with our basic state of being. That’s kind of scary, says Josh Korda. He dares us to look directly into our boredom.
The Lion’s Roar Podcast: Thubten Chodron / Talking Dharma Relief with Guo Gu
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Duncan Ryūken Williams on May 4th’s ceremony honoring Asian American ancestors
Ross Nervig
“I hope sangha members from many different Buddhist lineages will join us to help us with the transformation for not only one family, but for our entire community.”
The Lion’s Roar Podcast: Mindfulness, Work, and Deepening Your Practice with Beth Wallace
Sandra Hannebohm
This episode of The Lion’s Roar Podcast features our own Beth Wallace, a certified mindfulness teacher and longtime practitioner of the dharma.
THE MAGAZINE
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The March 2021 issue of Lion’s Roar explores how to detox your mind using Buddhist wisdom and practices.
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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.
The Dharma of Dinosaurs (and Other Cool Stuff)
Andrea Miller
From paleontology to astrophysics, four scientists talk to Andrea Miller about their search for truth — scientific and spiritual.
Finding Myself in the Garden
Valerie Brown
Valerie Brown returns to gardening to recover her broken spirit, and discovers what really grows in a garden is love.
The Lady in the Tent
David J. Keuler
Psychologist David J. Keuler is used to helping people, but this was different. Could he really practice limitless compassion?
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.