Category: Mindfulness

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.

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.

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.

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.

Remembering Joanna Macy’s Wisdom

The renowned Buddhist thinker, environmental activist, and author Joanna Macy passed away on July 19, 2025. She was 96. In her memory, we invite you to read this interview with her and Melvin McLeod, in which she shares her vision for the global awakening our planet needs. At heart, it’s a spiritual revolution.