Archives: LR Articles
Teachings from Meditation in Recovery: The Four Brahma Viharas
The following is from a series of essays on recovery as seen from the Buddhist perspective of the paramitas and the Brahma Viharas.
Love’s Garden
Peggy Rowe and Larry Ward reflect on the practice of metta, loving-kindness, reflected in the Buddhist imagery of the lotus flower.
David Guy on the Zen of Writing
In this exclusive web interview, author David Guy talks about his practice, the state of Buddhist publishing, and his novel Jake Fades.
Web-Exclusive Interview with Author Roland Merullo
Web-exclusive interview with Rolan Merullo, author of Breakfast with Buddha, on writing about spirituality.
Best of Inquiring Mind: 25 Years of Dharma, Drama, and Uncommon Insight
Barbara Gates and Wes Nisker, long-time editors of the long-running Buddhist journal Inquiring Mind, have just published The Best of Inquiring Mind: 25 Years of Dharma, Drama, and Uncommon Insight. Chris Faatz offers a nice review of the book at Powells.com:
Lama Zopa on Caring for Your Animals
Rinpoche had these general suggestions for ways students could care for pets in everyday life and at their death.
Street Yoga
Street Yoga founded in 2002 and offers free yoga, meditation, and wellness classes to homeless youth and to youth at risk of being homeless.
A Great Master’s Simple Goodbye
Review of Footprints in the Snow: The Autobiography of a Chinese Buddhist Monk by Master Sheng Yen.
A Lineage of Yoginis
Review of When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty by Hildegard Diemberger.
Of Course I’m Angry
As his marriage falls apart, Gabriel Cohen has a chance encounter with Buddhism that shows him the anger is his alone, and serves no one.
The Mindful Society
Not long ago seen as fringey and foreign, mindfulness practice is going mainstream. Andrea Miller looks at five fields with mindful living.
The Birth of the Sixties: When the Beats Became Hippies
Review of A Blue Hand: The Beats in India by Deborah Baker.
Q & A: Alice Waters
An interview with celebrity chef Alice Waters about healthy food, ethical ingredients and how to change the world with our eating choices.
Evaluating Eckhart
Review of "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle and "The Joy of Living" by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.