Lindsay Kyte traces the history of the Buddhist Churches of America — and the Japanese immigrant experience in America — through four generations of one family. When Akiko Rogers sat down for our interview at the Jodo Shinshu Center in Berkeley, California, she placed a packet of tissues on the table between us. I thought maybe she had a cold. But Rogers knew she was about [...]
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Say Yes to the Rest
In the opening editorial of our September 2018 issue, Lion’s Roar's associate editor Lindsay Kyte shares how Buddhist wisdom taught her to rest. A few months ago, I had my first hospital stay. While I was hooked up to an IV, I was making plans for all the things I was going to do the next day, even though I couldn’t stand up without falling down from weakness. Those with [...]
Where Everyone Can Thrive
East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland is a leader in developing dharma for people who don’t feel welcome elsewhere. Lindsay Kyte explores EBMC’s focus on respect, safety, and the joy of being seen for who you are. In a society where many fight to be seen and heard, Mushim Ikeda sees a great need for well-being for the oppressed through spirituality and community. “For [...]
Surviving a Toxic Workplace
Each Friday, we share three topical longreads in our Weekend Reader newsletter. This week, Lion's Roar associate editor Lindsay Kyte shares Buddhist wisdom for suriving a toxic workplace. Sign up here to receive the Weekend Reader in your inbox. I’ve found myself working on a project with a toxic manager. (Don’t worry, it’s not here at Lion’s Roar!) This person is aggressive [...]
Review: “The Day The Buddha Woke Up”
From the July 2018 issue of Lion’s Roar. The Day the Buddha Woke Up By Andrea Miller; artwork by Rima Fujita Wisdom Publications 2018; 18 pp., $10.95 (board book) The Day the Buddha Woke Up is the first ever Buddhist board book. It was written with small children in mind, but the words and images are worth pondering from both a child’s perspective and when we’re all [...]
Interview Crushes
Each Friday, we share three topical longreads in our Weekend Reader newsletter. This week, Lion's Roar magazine associate editor Lindsay Kyte talks about her favorite profiles. Sign up here to receive the Weekend Reader in your inbox. Our editor-in-chief, Melvin McLeod, says I sometimes get “interview crushes.” He is right. I am really lucky — I have a job where I get to ask [...]
An ex-neo-Nazi’s journey to Buddhism
Arno Michaelis founded a white supremacist gang and was frontman for a white-power metal band. Yet, as he tells Lindsay Kyte, his ideology could not hold up when those he hated met him with love. From the outside, Arno Michaelis’ 1970s childhood was idyllic—two parents still married, a nice house with a big yard in a middle-class Milwaukee neighborhood, lots of love and [...]
How Will You Die?
Lindsay Kyte profiles five people who offer Buddhist wisdom to people who are dying and those close to them. Death Is Here Now: Koshin Paley Ellison & Robert Chodo Campbell I didn’t know what to do. I was at the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care to talk with Koshin Paley Ellison and Robert Chodo Campbell about their Buddhist approach to end-of-life care. But [...]
“Facing Death Is a Device for Tenderizing Hearts”
Twenty-two years ago, Pascal Auclair had to come to terms with his own mortality. Now, as a Buddhist meditation teacher, he’s helping others do it. Profile by Lindsay Kyte. It was 1995 and Pascal Auclair was a handsome 25-year-old actor in Montreal. His life changed, though, when his doctor uttered the words, “You are HIV positive.” “It was as if the building had [...]
Touching Sound: A visit to the Rubin Museum’s thrilling new exhibit
“The World Is Sound," at New York City's Rubin Museum of Art, features the work of Éliane Radigue, Laetitia Sonami, Bob Bielecki, Christine Sun Kim, Hildegard Westerkamp, John Giorno, Pauline Oliveros, and more. Lindsay Kyte takes you there. The entrance to the Rubin Museum of Art was alive with sights and sounds as their annual block party, this year called “Sounds of the [...]
