Category: Mindfulness
Heal in Community
Come together with others, says Arisika Razak, to grieve, heal, and fight for a better world.
A Thousand Thoughts, a Thousand Pieces
Roberval Oliveira on why doing puzzles can deepen your meditation practice.
Answering the Call to Awaken
Like the Buddha, we all get our call to wake up. It often comes when life isn’t working and we may have to go a little crazy.
Coming Apart and Struggling Through Depression
A moving account by Susan Moon of her journey back from depression, and how her Buddhist practice both helped and hindered her.
What Really Makes Us Happy
As a Buddhist teacher, psychiatrist, and leading researcher, Dr. Robert Waldinger studies life from three very different perspectives. But he says they all come to the same basic conclusion about what really makes our lives happy and meaningful, and what doesn’t.
Becoming the Ally of All Beings
A teaching by Sharon Salzberg on the interconnectedness of all things.
How does a meditator deal with major depression?
The teachers are asked how a meditator deals with episodes of depression.
Mindfulness as a Path to Healing and Belonging for Immigrants
Lorena Saavedra Smith reflects on how mindfulness helped her navigate challenges through the process of immigrating from Perú to the United States, advocating for the importance of culturally sensitive and inclusive mindfulness practice spaces.
How to Drive Mindfully
Driving doesn’t have to be stressful. Roberval Oliveira offers mindfulness tips for cruise control, road rage, and more.
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.