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How to Set Better Boundaries
Guided by Buddhist teachings on the brahmaviharas, Elizabeth Hernandez-Stomp helps us learn when to say yes and how to say no.
The True Nature of a Flower
For Valerie Brown, her garden is a teacher of the dharma. In every bloom she sees impermanence, nonself, and nirvana.
5 Meditations to Calm Anxiety
Five easy meditations you can do to find calm, care for yourself, and ease your anxiety in any situation.
Toma tres respiraciones conscientes
Pema Chödrön nos enseña una técnica sencilla que podemos utilizar en cualquier momento que necesitemos un descanso de nuestros patrones habituales.
The Light Enters You: Remembering Video Artist Bill Viola
Video artist Bill Viola died Friday at his home in Long Beach, California of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He was 73. As a video artist, Viola captured not just image, but experience, showing us what video art could be. In this 2004 interview with Lion’s Roar, Viola talked in detail, for the first time, about his Buddhist practice and how it informed his art.
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Uncover the Golden Buddha Within You
The gold of your true nature can get buried beneath fear and confusion, but it can never be tarnished. Tara Brach on how to trust your basic goodness.
The Healing Power of Feeling
“The way to find freedom from difficult emotions is to find it right within the feelings themselves,” writes Andy Karr. Here, he shares a practice for locating and working with difficult feelings in the subtle body to ultimately heal them.
Thich Nhat Hanh on How to Heal Your Inner Child
Healing the pain of our wounded child within, says Thich Nhat Hanh, is key.
Como trabajar con la ira
Mónica Jordan explora cómo relacionarnos con la ira de una manera consciente.
A Practice to Work Through Difficult Thoughts
Lisa Ernst shares a practice to offer kindness to your difficult thoughts.
El samaya como relación simbiótica
Damchö Diana Finnegan habla del vínculo gurú-discípulo en el budismo Vajrayana y de cómo manejarlo de forma saludable y beneficiosa.
Finding Shelter in Simplicity
Hilary Smith had no electricity, no running water, no locks. She had everything she needed.
How to Experience the True Nature of Mind
Mingyur Rinpoche shares step-by-step instructions to experience the basic nature of mind.
Fat Dharma: Dawn Haney on Teaching Buddhism for Body Liberation
Dawn Haney, along with co-teacher Nina Herzog, will lead the upcoming online course “Fat Dharma” at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. Here, Haney talks to Lion’s Roar about the healing potential of integrating the wisdom of fat liberation with Buddhism to create a more inclusive dharma.
The Middle Way of Stress
Judy Lief on what Buddhist wisdom teaches us about stress — where it really comes from, how it manifests, and why we may need it on the spiritual path.
A Practice to Meet Bad Habits with Loving-Kindness
Sylvia Boorstein unpacks the foundational Buddhist teaching “Recognize unwholesome states in the mind and replace them with wholesome states.”
How to Work with Anxiety on the Path of Liberation
Anxiety is actually a necessary part of our path. Psychotherapist Bruce Tift gives an instruction in how to relate to it constructively.
How to Be a Friend Until the End
According to Frank Ostaseski, offering care to someone who’s dying is like meditation: there’s no one right way, but practice helps, and so do basic guidelines.