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Does Mindfulness Help Kids? There’s A Better Question to Ask
Recent studies of school-based mindfulness programs have raised doubts about the benefits of teaching mindfulness to kids. Susan Kaiser Greenland explains why those findings don’t tell the whole story.
When Caring Becomes Practice
As her mother’s illness deepens, Chokey Tsering turns to Buddhist teachings—seeking to ease her mother’s suffering while confronting her own.
To the Other Shore
Chenxing Han explores the concept of chaplaincy, and how her personal experience of apprenticing with Buddhist chaplains impacted her own relationship with death.
Love Without Limits
Sister Tue Nghiem on how the practice of true love helps us nourish happiness, alleviate suffering, and discover the freedom of the awakened heart.
The Seeds I Water
Tony Koji Wallin-Sato’s relationship with his father was marked by absence, addiction, and suicide. Through practice, he discovers how to stop growing the seeds of suffering.
How to Practice Chanting
It’s an expression of oneness — with the Buddha, with the sangha, with the cosmos itself. Mark Unno teaches you how to let go into the flow of chanting.
The Buddha’s Horse
The Buddha valued dispassion, yet he also knew the power of love. Reiko Ohnuma on the poignant relationship between Siddhartha and his horse.
Deepen Your Love with Equanimity
We so often strive to remove every discomfort. Let go of that impulse, says Gullu Singh, and discover a steadiness that needs no fixing.
A Story for Buddhists in the ICE-raid Era
First published in 2017 and newly introduced for today’s political climate, Mushim Patricia Ikeda shares a small piece of Buddhist history that she’s never forgotten, and that she hopes we’ll always remember, too.
Walking Ourselves Back to Attention
Ann Tashi Slater reflects on how circumambulation can help us navigate life when we lose our way.
4 Ways to Deepen Your Love
Loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity are the four immeasurables, the path to an open, grounded heart. In this special section, four Buddhist teachers share practices and insights for bringing these qualities to life.
Richard Gere & the Wisdom of Happiness
In this interview with Andrea Miller, Richard Gere shares how Buddhist practice has shaped his activism, his inner life, and his vision for a more compassionate world.
The Doorway to Wisdom
Through mindfulness, we can see the workings of the mind, know the roots of suffering, and discover the peace that’s always available. A teaching by Joseph Goldstein.
She Who Liberates
With the twenty-one praises of Tara, you discover your own fearless compassion. Lama Döndrup Drölma introduces this timeless practice.
Books in Brief: March 2026
Jessica Little reviews new books for the March issue of Lion's Roar.
How to Be Honest With Yourself
False positivity erodes truth and intimacy. Daniel Ahearn offers a path toward honesty.
Who Do We Want to Be in This Moment?
Buddhist scholar Cortland Dahl returns to his native Minneapolis, where he inspired to follow the example of the Tibetan people who have responded to the injustice they have suffered with compassion and wisdom.
The Power of We
Collective awareness is key to tackling the converging crises of our time. Jon Kabat-Zinn on how to move beyond I, me, and mine.
Mindfulness of the Nine Types of Hunger
Jan Chozen Bays shows how mindful attention to nine distinct “hungers” can transform eating on autopilot into a practice of awareness, gratitude, and wise nourishment.