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Listen to meditations, interviews, and dharma talks to awaken your heart and mind.
Like leaves in the autumn or wood in the fire, all things pass. But, there is a moment in which we can see things as they are.
Caring for people who are suffering is a loving, even heroic calling, but it takes a toll. Roshi Joan Halifax teaches this five-step program to care for yourself while caring for others.
Susan Piver applies Buddhist principles to a well-known typology of personality types. Then, a review of Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club selection, That Bird Has My Wings by imprisoned Buddhist author Jarvis Jay Masters.
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The simple act of stopping, says Pema Chödrön, is the best way to cultivate our good qualities. Here are five ways meditation makes us better people.
Life is stressful. Although some people claim that contemporary life is especially stressful, I am skeptical whether that is so. Living beings have always had to struggle for food, for shelter, and for safety. They have always had the stress of finding a mate and reproducing. The world is no Garden of Eden.
Each Friday, we share three topical longreads in our Weekend Reader newsletter. This week, Lion’s Roar magazine’s editorial assistant Hal Atwood explores the real meaning of kindness.
Thich Nhat Hanh’s life of courage and compassion, by Andrea Miller.
Hilary North-Ellasante examines how our bodies hold on to suffering and what it can tell us about our experience.
Jenny Phillips reviews “That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row” by Jarvis Jay Masters, the powerful memoir first published in 2009 and now in the news in 2022 thanks to Oprah Winfrey’s picking of it for her famed book club.
Indigo Ocean explores the concept of worship and how it can enrich the Buddhist practice of awareness.
Karen Maezen Miller on how the domestic practice of ancient Zen masters can lead us to intimate encounters with our own lives.
Valerie Mason-John shares a meditation for cultivating a positive relationship with yourself, and, by extension, the world.
With her empowered imagery, she’s connected many to the divine feminine. Andrea Miller profiles the Japanese American visionary Mayumi Oda.
Lion’s Roar’s Chris Pacheco outlines three main strategies for moving through feelings of anxiety.
Susan Moon on the spiritual journey of Jarvis Jay Masters, a Buddhist practitioner on death row in San Quentin prison.
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