Category: Mindfulness
How to Establish a Daily Practice of Almost Anything
Whether it’s meditation, yoga, or art, you get more from doing it every day. Follow these six steps to enjoy all the benefits of daily practice.
Take Refuge in Your Body
When the storms of life hit, your body can be a place of refuge and healing. Cyndi Lee says it starts with making friends with your body.
4 Trauma-Informed Mindfulness Practices for Healing
In this gentle guide, Sharon Suh shares four simple and safe practices for healing and wholeness.
How to Cultivate True, Lasting Happiness
Ven. Guan Cheng on how to make every day a good day.
Fierce Determination
Awakening can strike like lightning in moments of loss and fear. The key, says Linda Myoki Ryugo Lehrhaupt, is learning to sit through the storm with unwavering resolve.
How to Set Meaningful Intentions
Regularly reminding yourself of your intentions is the key to keeping your life on target, says Sylvia Boorstein. She shares how to set meaningful intentions for yourself, your loved ones, and all beings.
5 Meditations to Calm Anxiety
Five easy meditations you can do to find calm, care for yourself, and ease your anxiety in any situation.
Three Ways of Working with Emotions
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche shares a new article and video on the five kleshas — ignorance, aversion, craving, pride, jealousy — how they lead to suffering, and how not to let them.
True Dharma Brothers
A snapshot of the special friendship between Larry Rosenberg and Jon Kabat-Zinn — two leading lights of the American vipassana and mindfulness movements — from Madeline Drexler’s introduction to the new Rosenberg book, The World Exists to Set Us Free: Straight-Up Dharma for Living a Life of Awareness. We begin in the early days, after Rosenberg had set aside a successful academic career to dive into dharma and meditation.
Thich Nhat Hanh on How to Be Present
There is only one moment for you to be alive, and that is the present moment, says Thich Nhat Hanh. Go back to the present moment and live this moment deeply, and you’ll be free.
The Heart Breaks
The Buddha saw an old man, ill man, dead man, and wise man. As her father’s health declined, Minal Hajratwala saw these same sights.
What to Do When You’re Overwhelmed
Kamilah Majied shares her advice for staying afloat when you feel like you're drowning.
10 Vows to Not Make Things Difficult
Who’s really making things difficult? asks Zen teacher Karen Maezen Miller. Here are ten ways to take care of your end.
Through the Gateway of the Senses
Francesca Fremantle on sight, sound, touch, and other sensory miracles that occur when we cleanse our perceptions of grasping and attachment.
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Answers to Children’s Deepest Questions
From “Is nothing something?” to “What do you do when you’re scared?” Thich Nhat Hanh’s answers to children’s questions offer wisdom for all ages.
The Eightfold Path: Right Mindfulness
Norman Fischer on why mindfulness is not always “right.”
Thich Nhat Hanh on How to Heal Your Inner Child
Healing the pain of our wounded child within, says Thich Nhat Hanh, is key.
The Beautiful Contradiction of Mindfulness
Beth Wallace introduces the September 2025 issue of <em>Lion’s Roar</em>.
Two Practices to Start and End Your Day with Intention
Thupten Jinpa offers two daily practices to bring intention and meaning to your day.