Category: Mindfulness
Feeling Our Way to Awakening
The emotions we wish we didn’t have, that we’d like to just get over? Those feelings, say Jody Hojin Kimmel, are not obstacles on the path — they are the path.
Dissolve Your Fixation On Yourself
Buddhist meditation is about dissolving our fixation on ourselves, on the process of meditating, and on any result we might gain from it. Through meditation, we begin to get the hang of living with a non-grasping attitude. When you sit down to meditate, you can bring to your practice the notion of the threefold purity:…
In Times of Crisis, Draw Upon the Strength of Peace
When we are called upon to help in a crisis, says Kaira Jewel Lingo, we must respond. But the way we do is crucial.
Pema Chödrön on Meditation and the Middle Way
As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don’t deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can…
A Conversation on Love and Rage: Lama Rod Owens and Kate Johnson
In this conversation featured in Lama Rod Owens' new book "Love and Rage," he and Buddhist teacher Kate Johnson discuss how the dharma can help us hold our anger and work with our rage.
Happiness Is a Kind of Flower
Thich Nhat Hanh on how we can see happiness in the world around us.
The Nature of Fear
In this classic piece from the Lion's Roar archives, Joseph Goldstein explores the different types of fear, and how we can sit with fear and hold onto it in our practice.
The Solidarity Sutra
Scholar and Soto Zen Buddhist priest Duncan Ryuken Williams shares his <em>Solidarity Sutra</em> for the coronavirus age.
Review: “Big Love”
Big Love is a comprehensive and evocative biography of Lama Thubten Yeshe, rich in historical and cultural context.
True Practice Is Never Disengaged
If we feel like our practice is here, and the world is over there, says Karen Maezen Miller, then we’re missing the point of practice.
How to Work With Fear and Pain in a Moment of Crisis
Even when it feels like you're lost in the universe, Emily Horn explains, you can face the unknown with a still and calm heart-mind.
Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Spring 2020
Joie Szu-Chiao Chen reviews "The First Free Women" by Matty Weingast, "Tsongkhapa" by Thupten Jinpa, "Dharma Matters" by Jan Willis, and more.
Thich Nhat Hanh: Be Beautiful, Be Yourself
Andrea Miller’s exclusive interview with Thich Nhat Hanh from 2012.
The Simplest Meditation
In the opening editorial of our March 2020 issue, editor-in-chief Melvin McLeod looks at the perfectly simple lesson the Buddha taught.
My Bully Became a Buddhist
When Eric Steuer discovered his childhood bully was now a Buddhist teacher, he asked him the question he’d always wanted to: Why did you treat me that way?
The Uneasy Dialogue between Buddhism and Feminism
Jue Liang reviews "Buddhist Feminisms and Femininities," edited by Karma Lekshe Tsomo.
Ram Dass, spiritual pioneer, dies at 88
The spiritual teacher and psychologist, Ram Dass, and author of "Be Here Now," died on December 22, 2019 in Maui, Hawaii. He was 88.
Stepping in It
When Grace Schireson gets it all wrong with her socks, she learns what’s more important than the rules.
Sangha Can Be the Next Buddha
Kenley Neufeld offers three ways we can rethink community and fulfill Thich Nhat Hanh’s aspiration for the Buddhist community.
More Yokes for More Folks
The Buddha told a famous story about a blind turtle and a golden yoke to illustrate how rare the chance to discover the dharma is. Let’s make it less rare, says Bri Barnett, for oppressed and marginalized people.