Category: Dharma in Daily Life
How Travel Opens Your Mind and Heart
Travel wakes us up to the world. Three personal stories of transformational travel in Thailand, Ethiopia, and Yemen.
How to Be a Bodhisattva
It may seem like an unattainable ideal, but you can start right now as a bodhisattva-in-training. All you need is the aspiration to put others first.
5 Buddhists on How the Buddha Nourishes Their Life
How does the Buddha nourish your life and practice? Five Buddhists contemplate this question.
Shall I Stay or Shall I Go?
More people than ever before are changing jobs, or at least thinking about it. To help you decide, says Dan Zigmond, contemplate the nature of change.
Running into Joy
Sometimes sitting with her sadness becomes too difficult. But Vanessa Zuisei Goddard has learned she can run with it—and through it.
How to Be a Mindful Bodhisattva
Mindfulness is more than just a meditation practice. Mindfulness is life, and life is love. That’s why it’s the whole path of the bodhisattva, says Zen teacher Norman Fischer.
Trust In Life
Meditation, writes David Guy, is the practice of trusting life. When we practice this trust, we can more easily accept the inevitability of death.
How to Apologize When You Say the Wrong Thing
René Rivera on how to have empathy for the person you’ve hurt—and yourself.
Navigating Marriage as a Buddhist-Christian Couple
Kaira Jewel Lingo and Fr. Adam Bucko share how their union as a Buddhist-Christian couple has revealed that love is not only a feeling, but an intentional practice
On the Spectrum, On the Path
Meditation can help with navigating challenges, cultivating calm, and connecting with others. Four Buddhists with autism on how the practice has changed their lives.
No Self, No Opponent
Are martial arts incompatible or in harmony with Zen? That depends, says Som Pourfarzaneh.
Love Thy Haircutter?
After an infuriating trim, Renshin Bunce realizes meditation isn’t helping her overcome anger—or is it?
Clarity & Calm: An Interview With Mingyur Rinpoche
In this exclusive interview, Mingyur Rinpoche tells Lion’s Roar’s Andrea Miller how he learned to befriend his anxiety. We all have an innate well-being, he says. And we can all experience it.
Finding Nonself on My Gender Journey
René Rivera shares the direct experience of nonself he discovered along his gender journey as a trans man.
Commentary: Is Advertising a Problem for Buddhism?
Buddhism values attention and self-mastery; targeted advertising generates craving. Jonathan C. Gold explores the conflict between the two, calling us to regain control of our mindful attention.
Right Here With You: Buddhist Chaplains’ Inspiring Stories of Spiritual Care
What’s it like to provide spiritual care in hospitals, hospices, prisons, and beyond? Seven Buddhist chaplains share their moving stories.
How Amida Buddha Illuminates the Path of Compassion
Rev. Dr. Kenji Akahoshi shares the history and practice of Shin Buddhism, offering a pathway to awakening through the compassion of Amida Buddha.
Meet a Teacher: Pema Khandro Rinpoche
Pema Khandro Rinpoche gets personal with the Lion’s Roar readership.
An Interview with Pico Iyer, The Contemplative Traveler
For writer Pico Iyer, travel is a spiritual experience that shakes up our usual certainties and connects us to a richer, vaster world. Iyer talks with editor-in-chief Melvin McLeod about his book, "The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise," and his eclectic contemplative practice.
The Meditative Beauty of Birding
Zen teacher Benjamin Mui Pumphrey on appreciating not just the rare birds, but also the sparrows and crows.