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How to Practice Zazen

by Jules Shuzen Harris| February 3, 2021

How to Practice Zazen

Jules Shuzen Harris teaches Zazen, the meditation practice at the heart of Zen Buddhism.

What Are the Five Skandhas?

by Lion's Roar Staff| October 22, 2019

What Are the Five Skandhas?

According to Buddhism, people are made of five aggregates, or “heaps.” These are known in Sanskrit as the skandhas.

How Do I Work with My Fear of Other People’s Anger?

by Gina Sharpe| June 21, 2019

How Do I Work with My Fear of Other People’s Anger?

You can’t stop people from being angry at you, advises Insight Meditation teacher Gina Sharpe, but you can change how it makes you feel.

For the Children We’ve Lost

by Andrea Miller| May 22, 2019

For the Children We’ve Lost

Wounded by her work with abused children, pediatrician and Zen teacher Jan Chozen Bays found healing in a special ceremony invoking Jizo Bodhisattva.

Dogen’s Instructions for Zazen

by Eihei Dogen| November 30, 2018

Dogen’s Instructions for Zazen

Shine the light inward. Body and mind will drop away. A meditation instruction from Eihei Dogen, one of Buddhism’s greatest teachers.

Everything Is Buddhanature

by Melissa Myozen Blacker| November 28, 2018

Everything Is Buddhanature

Original sin vs. original goodness: Mahayana Buddhism offers a more hopeful view of human nature. Zen teacher Melissa Myozen Blacker reveals how nondual practice frees us from our temporary obscurations and reveals our true, awakened nature.

A Buddhist pot-smoker on quitting weed

by Anonymous| April 20, 2018

A Buddhist pot-smoker on quitting weed
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Pot use is having its moment, finding new acceptance across America. So why, after a long love affair with weed, has this Buddhist kicked it to the curb?

The Problem of Evil

by Norman Fischer| April 7, 2017

The Problem of Evil

There may be no good or evil in absolute reality says Norman Fischer, but in the relative world there certainly is.

What is Pure Land?

by Jeff Wilson| January 6, 2017

What is Pure Land?

What is Pure Land? Jeff Wilson answers.

It! It! It!

by Peter Coyote| December 8, 2016

It! It! It!

Forty years after his first sesshin, actor and writer Peter Coyote finally gets the point of Zen.

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