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How to Write About a Spiritual Journey

Journalist and author Perry Garfinkel reflects on the first travel journal he ever kept and explores how transformative journeys become stories worth telling.

How I Learned to Sit With Discomfort

Serena Baldwin shares the surprising lesson she learned while meditating in a public place.

How Meditation Reveals the Nature of Mind

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo on how meditation opens us to the empty, luminous nature of the mind.

How to Speak Up in Difficult Moments

Mary Stancavage reflects on how the Eightfold Path can help us move through fear, find our voice, and respond to injustice with wisdom and compassion.

Pink lotus flower blooming along winding garden path.

The Path of the Dharma

The Dhammapada, one of Buddhism’s most treasured texts, distills the Buddha’s teachings into vivid, practical verses. In this excerpt from his new book At Peace, Filled with Joy, Cuong Lu delves into these teachings, illuminating the path from suffering to wisdom.

Jet Li’s Search for Truth

In this candid Q&A with Editor Andrea Miller, the action star reflects on aging, awareness, and the inner freedom he’s found through Buddhist practice—themes at the heart of his new memoir.

His Dharma Heir

Zen nun Aikon’s late teacher—a sexist—doubted she’d be able to keep his temple going. Now, in the flourishing zendo, she settles herself into his own seat. An excerpt from Ruth Ozeki’s novel The Book of Form and Emptiness.

Share Your Wisdom: How has your practice changed the way you relate to anger?

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Using Heartbreak as Practice

Mariana Restrepo explores how the bodhisattva vow invites us to transform our heartbreak in the face of injustice into compassionate action.

How to Be Present with Grief

Through painting, photography, and meditation, Erin Eberle explores how creative practice can help us be present with our grief, reconnect with the world, and find our way back to ourselves.

Read the Lion’s Roar Foundation 2025 “Report to Our Community”

Our annual community report highlights the Lion’s Roar Foundation’s activities and accomplishments in 2025.

The Life-Changing Words of Mary Oliver

Rick Bass looks at the late Mary Oliver’s poem “The Summer Day,” which asks, “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

Why Buddhists Should Celebrate Juneteenth

Pamela Ayo Yetunde reflects on why Buddhists of all backgrounds should celebrate Juneteenth, a US federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.

Dalai Lama, Buddhist teachers and leaders share tributes to Robert A.F. Thurman

“Bob lived a meaningful life and has left behind a legacy that will continue to inspire future students of Tibetan Buddhism and culture for generations to come,” His Holiness writes. “I am sure that the merit he accumulated through a lifetime of service to humanity will bear fruit in lives to come.”