How to Practice Metta for a Troubled Time
Mushim Patricia Ikeda
Mushim Patricia Ikeda teaches us how to generate loving-kindness and good will as an antidote to hatred and fear.
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5 Reasons to Meditate
Pema Chödrön
The simple act of stopping, says Pema Chödrön, is the best way to cultivate our good qualities. Here are five ways meditation makes us better people.
What do all of the terms for Buddhist meditation mean?
Lion's Roar Staff
How to Practice Shamatha Meditation
Lama Rod Owens
How to Do Mahamudra Meditation
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Zen Mind, Writer’s Mind
Natalie Goldberg
The Moment is Perfect
Thich Nhat Hanh
Nothing to Fix, Nowhere to Go
Vanessa Zuisei Goddard
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ARTICLES
How to Do Metta
Jack Kornfield
Jack Kornfield on beginning this time-honored, heart-opening practice.
This Floating World
Joan Sutherland
Zen teacher Joan Sutherland on life’s dreamlike nature and why it should be embraced.
How to Practice Metta for a Troubled Time
Mushim Patricia Ikeda
Mushim Patricia Ikeda teaches us how to generate loving-kindness and good will as an antidote to hatred and fear.
Feeling Unworthy?
Pilar Jennings
Author and psychoanalyst, Pilar Jennings, offers advice to a practitioner who continues to feel unworthy and unloved.
Meditation is the Key to Knowing Yourself
Pema Chödrön
Meditation practice awakens our trust that the wisdom and compassion that we need are already within us.
Cutting Through Views: Three Practice Verses by Machig Labdrön
Charlotte Rotterdam
Charlotte Z. Rotterdam shares three verses by Machig Labdrön, the founder of Chöd, that we can carry with us in our daily lives.
The Lion’s Roar Podcast: Guided Tonglen Meditation with Lama Tsomo
Lion's Roar Staff
Buddhist teacher Lama Tsomo shares a guided tonglen meditation to cultivate compassion and move from
How to Do Metta
Jack Kornfield
Jack Kornfield on beginning this time-honored, heart-opening practice.
The Dalai Lama congratulates President Joe Biden following inauguration
Lilly Greenblatt
“I pray for your success in meeting the challenges that lie ahead in fulfilling the hopes and aspirations of all Americans,” His Holiness writes.
Cómo practicar Tonglen
Pema Chödrön
Pema Chödrön nos enseña “tomar y dar,” una práctica budista antigua para desarrollar compasión. Con cada inhalación, tomamos el dolor de otros. Con cada exhalación, enviamos alivio.
Las hijas de Buda: una entrevista con la maestra de dharma y autora Judy Lief
Andrea Miller
Cuando estaba compilando la antología Buddha’s Daughters: Teachings from Women Who Are Shaping Buddhism in the West [Las hijas de Buda: enseñanzas de las mujeres que están dando forma al budismo en Occidente], una de las primeras maestras que pensé en incluir fue Judy Lief, ya que sus enseñanzas son algunas de las más notablemente esclarecedoras, relevantes y también fácilmente disfrutables.
Yes, We Can Have Hope
Joan Halifax
Roshi Joan Halifax reflects on the idea of “wise hope” and why we should open ourselves to it.