Category: Mindfulness
Loosening the Knots of Anger
Thich Nhat Hanh teaches us how to relax the bonds of anger, attachment and delusion through mindfulness and kindness toward ourselves.
Get Curious About Your Anxiety
Buddhism and psychoanalysis take the same approach to calming the anxious mind, says Dr. Pilar Jennings—look with friendly curiosity at your anxiety and what causes it.
How Endings Make Room for Beginnings
Sylvia Boorstein on the transformative power of acknowledging life's constant cycle of creation and loss.
Awakening in the Body
Being mindful of the body is a profound—though often overlooked—opportunity to deepen our meditation and develop our insight.
Advice for Someone Who is Dying
Ajahn Chah gives simple, profound advice to an aging student as she approaches her death.
What Can I Do About Burnout?
Burnout is the feeling of exhaustion that helpers sometimes experience when they have taken on more than they can handle. But there is much we can do to prevent it, and to work with it when it occurs.
How Mindfulness Enhances Cold Water Therapy
Roberval Oliveira shares his experience with cold water therapy, highlighting the important role mindfulness has played in unlocking its numerous benefits.
The Four Givings
Buddhism’s four immeasurables aren’t just states of mind we can achieve, says Venerable Hui Cheng. They’re gifts we can give to others.
Meeting Heart-to-Heart
When it comes to difficult people, says Koshin Paley Ellison, the key is two people willing to let go of being right.
My 49-Day Journey Through Grief
After the loss of her son, Karen Wallace Bartelt sought solace beyond the practices of her Christian faith. Finding inspiration in Buddhism, she shares how she learned to sit with her grief and create a sacred space within for transformation to unfold.
3 Lessons Pema Chödrön Taught Me
On the occasion of Pema Chödrön's birthday, Lion's Roar's deputy editor Andrea Miller shares the important lessons Pema has taught her.
Understanding Self Power & Other Power
Mark Unno on how giving ourselves over to other power, an idea central to Asian Buddhist thought, can lead to awakening.
How to Make a Spectacular Mistake
You’re going to make one anyway, says Anita Feng. So why not go big? You might end up with something more beautiful than perfection.
The Sunlight of Awareness
Shine the warm light of awareness on your thoughts and feelings, says Thich Nhat Hanh.
Growing Together
To commit to another person is to embark on an adventurous journey, writes Thich Nhat Hanh. You must be wise and patient to keep your love alive so it will last for a long time.
Healing the Scars of History
Retreats are being held at Auschwitz, a former plantation, and a site where Indigenous people were massacred. Lindsay Kyte reports on how retreatants are finding freedom from their ancestral pain.
How We Get Hooked and How We Get Unhooked
Shenpa is the urge, the hook, that triggers our habitual tendency to close down. We get hooked in that moment of tightening when we reach for relief. To get unhooked we begin by recognizing that moment of unease and learn to relax in that moment.
Welcoming the Life That’s Yours
Claire B. Willis and Marnie Crawford Samuelson share how when you allow and accept all of life's experiences, you can fully open to the life that’s yours to live.
Why Should I Meditate?
Matthieu Ricard explains what Buddhist meditation is and why we do it.