Archives: LR Articles
A Thousand Thoughts, a Thousand Pieces
Roberval Oliveira on why doing puzzles can deepen your meditation practice.
Trust In Life
Meditation, writes David Guy, is the practice of trusting life. When we practice this trust, we can more easily accept the inevitability of death.
How to Do Walking Meditation
Arinna Weisman and Jean Smith shed light on a common yet often misunderstood meditative practice, via simple-to-follow instructions.
El despertar alimentado por la ira
Como maestra de dharma, afirma Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, se nos dice que no debemos sentir ni expresar ira. Ella está en desacuerdo y revela cómo la ira puede ser "revitalizadora e iluminadora" y ayudar a "impulsar una transformación hacia el despertar."
Answering the Call to Awaken
Like the Buddha, we all get our call to wake up. It often comes when life isn’t working and we may have to go a little crazy.
Loving-Kindness Meditation for All Beings & All Bodies
Metta meditation is healing and heart-opening. Arisika Razak leads us through the practice.
Coming Apart and Struggling Through Depression
A moving account by Susan Moon of her journey back from depression, and how her Buddhist practice both helped and hindered her.
What Really Makes Us Happy
As a Buddhist teacher, psychiatrist, and leading researcher, Dr. Robert Waldinger studies life from three very different perspectives. But he says they all come to the same basic conclusion about what really makes our lives happy and meaningful, and what doesn’t.
Becoming the Ally of All Beings
A teaching by Sharon Salzberg on the interconnectedness of all things.
Mindfulness as a Path to Healing and Belonging for Immigrants
Lorena Saavedra Smith reflects on how mindfulness helped her navigate challenges through the process of immigrating from Perú to the United States, advocating for the importance of culturally sensitive and inclusive mindfulness practice spaces.
Should I Try to Stop Thinking?
Good luck with that. What you can do, says Jules Shuzen Harris, is change your relationship with your thoughts.
Beyond the Binary
With our ideas of right and wrong, male and female, we’re stuck in the suffering of dualistic thinking. Nonbinary author Tomara Garrod wants freedom.
What AI Means for Buddhism
AI can articulate the sum total of human knowledge, but can it help us cultivate wisdom and compassion—or is it a danger on the spiritual path? Ross Nervig investigates.
Nuevas fronteras de la ciencia contemplativa
Una nueva generación de científicos estudia los efectos de la práctica espiritual en el cuerpo y la mente. Barry Boyce informa sobre lo que están descubriendo.
The Art of Mindfulness
Painting a picture and writing a poem can be a gateway to experiencing the present moment. Rachel Rose on how to practice mindful creativity.
The Race Koan
Are we all Black poets at night? E. Ethelbert Miller asks us to ponder this and other questions.
The Black Onyx in the Triple Gem
Lion's Roar associate editor Pamela Ayo Yetunde introduces the May 2024 “Black & Buddhist” issue.
Honoring the Form
Everything is impermanent, but a chance encounter shows another truth—continuation. A short story by the renowned novelist Charles Johnson.
10 Ways to Find True Happiness
Introduced by Kaira Jewel Lingo, ten Black dharma teachers dive deep into the paramis, the ten qualities of enlightened beings.
Practice for a World at Risk
It’s the concept of “other” that drives the evils the world suffers from, says Roshi Joan Halifax. The contemplation we need now is that in reality there is no separation.