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 [...]
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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 [...]
Why Is Rebecca Solnit Hopeful?
Writer and activist Rebecca Solnit fearlessly tells the truth about misogyny, injustice, and environmental destruction. But as Lindsay Kyte reports, she tells us another important truth: we have hope, and it is found in uncertainty. Rebecca Solnit is certain of only one thing—that hope includes uncertainty. “We don’t know what’s going to happen next, and that [...]
Thupten Jinpa, Voice for Compassion
Thupten Jinpa is best known as the Dalai Lama’s translator, but this Buddhist Renaissance man has many roles—scholar, author, and leader in the dialogue between science and Buddhism. Driving them all, says Lindsay Kyte, is his mission to help us all be more compassionate. “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” —His Holiness the Dalai Lama “It’s in [...]
Krista Tippett: Voice of America’s Spiritual Journey
The host and creator of On Being talks about her own spiritual journey, and the changing face of spirituality in America. As the creator and host the popular public radio/podcast On Being, and the author of Becoming Wise, Krista Tippett is renowned for her meetings of mind and spirit with wisdom figures, politicians, poets, and great thinkers of our time. She is the host and [...]
Making It Right Again
By bringing victims and perpetrators together, she’s helping repair harm and turn lives around. Meet restorative justice expert sujatha baliga. sujatha baliga wanted to use her anger from childhood sexual abuse for justice. But as she was working with survivors of sexual harm and domestic violence, she was deepening her Buddhist practice, and on a trip to India she asked His [...]
