Archives: LR Articles
How to Find True Refuge in an Uncertain World
We all want security, yet too often we look for it in the wrong places. Br. Phap Huu on a safety that does not depend on circumstances.
How to Be a Mindful Parent
Whether you’re the parent of a newborn, young child, teen, or grown child, mindful parenting can help bring more awareness and love to bear in your family. Four dharma teachers tell you how.
Books in Brief: November 2024
Sandi Rankaduwa reviews eight inspiring new books by authors of Asian descent.
Elephant Wisdom
Animals are forced to live in a man-made world. Andrew Lam on the colonization of the wild.
Celebrating Asian American Buddhists
Noel Alumit introduces the November 2024 issue of <em>Lion's Roar</em>, which celebrates Buddhists of Asian descent.
A Mindful Movement Practice for Embodied Awareness
You don’t just practice mindfulness with your mind. You practice it with your body too. Yoga teacher and Buddhist Cyndi Lee teaches us how.
Recursos para afrontar los abusos en las comunidades espirituales
Por Ann Gleig y Amy Langenberg, autoras de «Sexual Ethics and Healthy Boundaries in the Wake of Teacher Abuse» (Ética sexual y límites saludables tras el abuso de maestros), del número de invierno de 2023 de Buddhadharma, llega esta recopilación de sitios web, comunidades y proyectos selectos de valor para comunidades, maestros y estudiantes budistas que buscan desarrollar y mantener las mejores prácticas para fomentar relaciones saludables entre maestros y estudiantes y abordar conflictos y dificultades.
Consejos para mujeres con una relación sexual secreta con su maestro budista
Willa Blythe Baker ofrece nueve consejos a las mujeres que mantienen relaciones secretas con sus maestros.
Toward a Revolution of Love
In this important essay, the late bell hooks inspires us to make her vision of a culture of love come true.
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Love Letter to the Earth
The earth is you. You are the earth. When you realize there is no separation, says the late Thich Nhat Hanh, you fall completely in love with this beautiful planet.
3 Mindful Movement Exercises
Thich Nhat Hanh offers three mindful movement exercises for well-being, "a wonderful way of connecting your mind and body in mindfulness."
Si te encuentras con Buda en el camino, ¿mátalo?
Chris Pacheco, explica el verdadero significado de la famosa cita del monje budista chino Linji Yixuan del siglo IX.
¿Cuál es el significado de la flor de loto en el budismo?
La for de loto es uno de los símbolos de la iluminación más reconocibles del budismo y es importante en muchas tradiciones budistas.
Meet a Teacher: Rev. Doyeon Park
Rev. Park is a minister in the Won Buddhist community and the Buddhist chaplain at two New York universities.
Don’t Let Hatred Destroy Your Practice
His Holiness the Dalai Lama takes an in-depth look at how we can work with anger and hatred in our practice.
You and Me — It’s All One Thing
James Ishmael Ford finds that an ancient Zen story's wisdom speaks quite well to our confusion around questions of identity, sexuality, and gender.
The Ticking Watch Meditation to Overcome Negative Thoughts
Sensei Alex Kakuyo shares a practice to work with suffering by calming the mind one second at a time.
El camino completo de la atención plena
Un viaje que cambia la vida comienza con una sola respiración. Con el simple acto de prestar atención consciente a una respiración, afirma Melvin McLeod, nos adentramos en un camino completo que va más profundo y más lejos de lo que podemos imaginar.
Watch: Jon Kabat-Zinn on the Universal Power of Awareness
In conversation with Lion’s Roar editor-in-chief Melvin McLeod, Jon Kabat-Zinn explains the powerful “hidden dimension” of awareness and how exploring it reveals who we truly are.
Watch: Jon Kabat-Zinn on Trusting the Present Moment
Jon Kabat-Zinn explains how meditation offers us an opportunity to fall in love with the present moment — “the only moment,” he says, “that we're ever actually alive in.”