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New Buddhist Coalition for Democracy launches, issues Call to Action
“As Buddhists, we are called upon to witness, respond to, and resist the ongoing systematic destruction of norms and institutions that allow free societies to flourish,” the Buddhist Coalition for Democracy’s Call to Action reads.
What Does It Mean to Be Enlightened?
Contrary to popular thought, awakening isn’t a distant goal. In fact, says Lisa Ernst, awakening is always available.
Finding Myself in the Garden
Valerie Brown returns to gardening to recover her broken spirit, and discovers what really grows in a garden is love.
Remembering Anna Douglas, Spirit Rock founding teacher (1939-2025)
Douglas taught classes and retreats in the Insight Meditation tradition for more than 40 years.
A Buddhist Approach to OCD
Naomi Matlow shares her experience with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and advice on how mindfulness can help us work with harmful thoughts.
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Mindfulness Practice to Transform Anger into Love
This mindfulness practice from Thich Nhat Hanh will help you face your anger and transform it into the energies of love and understanding.
The Power of Mindfulness
Diana Winston on how to use the tools of mindfulness to work with negative patterns like shame, guilt, and self-criticism that stand in the way of caring for and liking yourself.
Seeking Buddha in Gaza
As a Buddhist and a Jew, Linda Hess considers how to respond with wisdom and compassion to the violence inflicted on the people of Gaza and the rage she feels about it. Paintings by Malak Mattar.
Mindfulness for Connection, Communication, and Deepening Our Relationships
Read the introduction to the new book “Right Here With You,” edited by Lion’s Roar's Andrea Miller.
What Cancer Taught Me
Paul Daisuke Goodman on what leukemia has taught him about ego, impermanence, and the incredible power of community.
The Magic Moment in Meditation
Sharon Salzberg explains how to practice basic breath meditation.
How to Do Green Tara Practice
Lama Palden Drolma teaches us how to visualize the deity Green Tara, who embodies our own buddhanature.
In the Footsteps of the Buddha
When we visit the very places where the Buddha lived and taught, we discover deeper meaning in his teachings. Shantum Seth takes us on a sacred pilgrimage.
Your Enlightened Nature
The essence of mind is empty, luminous awareness. Mingyur Rinpoche on the Tibetan Buddhist practice of Dzogchen.
4 Ways to Heal Trauma with Love
Loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, equanimity—these four loving qualities are powerful ways to heal our trauma.
Thich Minh Tue: The Walking Monk
Nguyet B. Ho on how a barefoot monk’s journey through and beyond Vietnam sparks spiritual debate, testing the boundaries between faith, materialism, and state control.
Protected: Nature Is Our Teacher: Returning to the Earth, Sky and Stars
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Stepping into the Stream of Depth Practice Programs
Sukhasiddhi Foundation has been offering practice multi-year programs since 2001 as a means to support practitioners in developing and deepening their meditation practice while moving through a coinciding curriculum of Buddhist teachings in general as well as teachings of the Shangpa and Dakpo Kagyu lineages.
Welcoming the Year of the Wood Snake
For Tibetan Buddhists, this week marks Losar, the new year — a time to clean house, cherish family, make offerings, contemplate the past year and welcome the new.
Discover the Joy of Doing Nothing
Zen teacher Pat Enkyo O’Hara teaches us the practice of Shikantaza.