Category: Mindfulness
Rent for Living on the Planet
Kate Johnson offers young New Yorkers the tools and community she could have used when she was young.
Let’s Talk: A Family Affair
Sumi Loundon Kim presents a new model for family-centered dharma communities.
Three questions to ask yourself to foster emotional awareness
In this teaching by Ken Jones, the Buddhist teacher and poet gives practical guidance on how to we can develop a positive response to our misfortunes.
I have cancer. How do I balance accepting impermanence and desiring to live?
The teachers answer the question of someone unsure how to balance her understanding of impermanence with her desire to live in the face of cancer.
Ocean, Meet Boy
As we moved from Japan to Nova Scotia, we found ourselves in Hawaii, a place that is a world entirely without category for our kids.
Your Dissatisfaction is Good News
Carolyn Rose Gimian explains why the experience of dissatisfaction — which the Rolling Stones so aptly described — might be just what we need.
How to Mind Your Feelings
While we can’t control when we feel anger or fear—or how strongly—we can gain some control over what we do while in their grip.
Another Black Mark
“No, Mama, no! I going draw on the couch!” When "Burmese Lessons" author Karen Connelly loses her cool in a battle of wills with her three-year-old, she learns valuable lessons about mindful parenting.
Wise Heart: A profile of Jack Kornfield
Jack Kornfield's brilliant synthesis of deep Buddhist practice and modern psychological insight has made him one of the most influential spiritual teachers of our time.
Josh Korda and Koshin Paley Ellison discuss spiritual bypassing
Josh Korda and Koshin Paley Ellison explore the problem of spiritual bypassing.
After the Plane Crash
Allan Lokos marvels at the despair, the joy, and the healing process that he and his wife experienced after surviving a horrific airplane crash.
Over and Over Again
According to Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, to be enlightened is to be free of obsessions. Given that I have obsessive-compulsive disorder, I usually feel very far from that ideal.
Meet a Teacher: Jack Kornfield
Jack Kornfield gets personal with the Lion's Roar readership.
What to Do When the Going Gets Rough
Pema Chödrön on four ways to hold our minds steady and hearts open when facing difficult people or circumstances.
Yoga from the Inside Out
For Christmas a few years ago, my partner, Teja, gave me a round yoga mat about six feet in diameter. When I spread it out and began to practice—by the twinkle of the Christmas tree lights—I was amazed at the way my asanas transformed.
Watch: “Hector” (aka Simon Pegg) goes to Tibet
If a good-natured, fun-loving film is your cuppa tea, you know Simon Pegg; think Hot Fuzz, Paul, Shaun of the Dead, and so on. Pegg’s latest star turn is in the title role of Hector and the Search for Happiness, in which he plays a psychiatrist who’s trotting the globe in search of, yes, happiness.…
Are you trying to “settle the score”? Try “choosing peace” instead
There is a key moment, says Pema Chödrön, when we make the choice between peace and conflict. In this teaching from her program Practicing Peace, she describes the practice we can do at that very moment to bring peace for ourselves, for others, and for the world. If we want to make peace, with ourselves and with…
Journeys: Putting on My Oxygen Mask
When faced with caring for her aging mother, Ann Potter struggles to practice both compassion for others and compassion for herself.
Extreme Detox: How Buddhist monks led me to humility and freedom from alcohol addiction
Author Paul Garrigan tells how Buddhist monks in a Thai temple helped him to drop his drinking, and even the very idea that he was an addict.
Buddhist Psychotherapist and “RAIN” Champion Tara Brach
Western psychology and Buddhism—together they offer us a complete diagnosis of the human condition. Andrea Miller talks to psychotherapist Tara Brach, who works to combine these two disciplines into a powerful path to love and fulfillment.