Archives: LR Articles
Strengthening the Will to Live
When we consider the will to live seriously, formulae such as ‘anger is bad, love is good’ become painfully simplistic.
Learning Where You Are The Experience of Place Based Education
Where are you? Who are you? How does where you are affect who you are? Place based education is interested in examining these questions.
Bonded by Gunk and Styrofoam
“I was a styrofoam tar baby. We laughed together about my appearance. My brother told me it was a thankless job and that I had done well. We made a link.”
My Year of Meats
Mirroring the journey of her novel’s heroine, Ruth Ozeki explored meat and media and discovered that writing is always political and denial always a choice. What’s in a Name? Last year my first novel was published. It’s called My Year of Meats. It’s a good title, I think. A funny title. A little proud, a…
Zen Sells: How Advertising has Co-opted Spirituality
From computers to beauty products, Madison Avenue has discovered that spirituality sells. Todd Stein on the irony of spiritual themes in materialism.
A Time to Find Meaning
“Even when disease cannot be cured, there is often a way to use this difficult experience to know more intimately the value and purpose of your life.”
How Do We Measure Progress?
Ronald Colman argues for a more human and sustainable measure of progress than simple economic growth, one that truly reflects what we value in life.
The Wisdom of Shambhala
In the classic Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, Chogyam Trungpa offered a powerful vision of spirituality founded on basic human wisdom, a path of meditation and warriorship for people of any belief or way of life. In this chapter from the long-awaited sequel, entitled Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala, Chogyam Trungpa discusses Working with Early Morning Depression. Introduction by Diana Mukpo.
The Rain and the Temple
"Pushing the dripping hair from my face, the rain running down my cheeks, I speak to my old teacher. ‘I’m here. It took me a while, but I made it.’
Jon Kabat Zinn: The Prescription is Meditation
From the inner city to hospitals and prisons, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn’s meditation courses are helping thousands handle illness stress, anger and addiction.
Mind at Peace, Body in Balance
A look at healing meditations developed by Tulku Thondup Rinpoche, author of The Healing Power of Mind.
Sex & Buddhism
Robin Kornman argues that, unlike other religions, Buddhism doesn’t view sex as a particularly important spiritual issue.
Penis Passion
bell hooks argues that our erotic lives are enhanced when men and women can celebrate the penis in ways that don't uphold macho stereotypes.
Liberalism and Religion – We Should Talk
Liberalism's objections to mythic forms do not apply to formless awareness. Thus liberalism and authentic spirituality can walk hand in hand.
Pure Passion
Judith Simmer-Brown on the role of desire in Buddhist Tantra: "The intensity of desire can only be liberated by desire itself."
Post-Porn Priestess of Pleasure: Annie Sprinkle Takes a Sex-Positive Position
Former porn-star, now artist and educator, Annie Sprinkle's real specialty is the public display of a positive attitude toward sex.
Confessions of a Spiritual Shopper
Don Morreale on checking out the Buddhist scene and finding what’s right for you. (It only took him thirty years to decide.)
Time for Boomers to Ponder Old Age
So perhaps this is an apt time to discover dignity in old age, lest my generation become for a puling exit from the stage of life.
Is It Only Rock and Roll?
"I am constantly asked, why pay any attention to any of it? Isn't this middle brow culture somehow not really spiritual? What a small God, that."
Ordinary Initiations
"I've come to think that experiences of initiation are very common, very ordinary, very subtle. They happen to us all as a natural part of living."