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What Are You Shopping For?

by Sam Littlefair| November 29, 2019

What Are You Shopping For?

In our Weekend Reader newsletter, LionsRoar.com’s Sam Littlefair looks at a different kind of consumerism. 

From Getting Mad to Going Shopping: What’s Your Pattern?

by Sylvia Boorstein| November 29, 2019

From Getting Mad to Going Shopping: What’s Your Pattern?

Buddhist teacher Sylvia Boorstein on 5 styles of habitual reaction—and how to find freedom from yours.

Practicing Financial Awareness

by Laura Jomon Martin| November 28, 2019

Practicing Financial Awareness

Laura Jomon Martin suggests ways to identify our habitual patterns and attitudes around money and to foster a more generous outlook.

How does Buddhism affect your consumer choices?

by Lion's Roar Staff| June 3, 2015

How does Buddhism affect your consumer choices?
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What will you, or won’t you, buy, support, eat — consume — and how has Buddhism influenced your thinking in this way?

The Tweeting, Yelping, Flickring, Foursquaring, TripAdvising Mentality

by Michael A. Stusser| June 27, 2012

The Tweeting, Yelping, Flickring, Foursquaring, TripAdvising Mentality

Michael A. Stusser on the dangers of a wildly overstimulated brain in our modern culture of constant media consumption.

Happy Together

by Gaylon Ferguson| February 1, 2011

Happy Together

When we stop focusing on ourselves, says Gaylon Ferguson, we begin to see that our happiness is dependent on the happiness of all beings.

Food for Thought: Exercising the compassion muscle

by Jill S. Schneiderman| January 17, 2011

Food for Thought: Exercising the compassion muscle

Jill S. Schneiderman discusses Jonathan Safran Foer’s thesis in Eating Animals, where he argues that vegetarianism is a compassionate choice.

Making the Right Choice as a Consumer

by Daniel Goleman| March 1, 2010

Making the Right Choice as a Consumer
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Daniel Goleman says the key to becoming a socially engaged consumer is to be mindful at the moment we’re deciding whether to buy something. Knowing the full range of its impacts is one of the best things we can do for ourselves and for the Earth.

Confessions of a Spiritual Shopper

by Don Morreale| May 1, 1999

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.)

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