Pema Chödrön shows us how we can let go of self-centered worries and become a bodhisattva-warrior. It’s the greatest happiness of all.
How to Unleash Your Creativity
From the profound teachings of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal tells us how to unleash powerful creative energy.
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness
Bhante Gunaratana explains that the Four Foundations of Mindfulness are mindfulness of body, feelings, mind, and dhamma.
Include Everything
A teaching on fear and street retreats by Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara.
Topsy-Turvy World
The strength of mind that comes from meditation, says Norman Fischer, can help us end the denial that keeps a world of problems spinning.
Feminine Principal

The principal figure in Buddhism is the teacher, a role traditionally dominated by men. Andrea Miller profiles three women teachers — Trudy Goodman, Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, and Lama Palden Drolma — who are changing the face of Buddhism and making the teachings whole.
Enter… the Bodhisattva

Members of the Buddhist Peace Delegation at a peace march in Washington, 2007. Photo by Maia Duerr, jizochronicles.com.David Loy on why Buddhism’s bodhisattva ideal is what the world needs now. Unless you’re on long retreat in a Himalayan cave, it’s becoming more difficult to overlook the fact that our world is beset by interacting ecological, […]
A laugh with David Sipress
David Sipress’ Buddhist cartoon from our November 2012 issue of Lion’s Roar.
Is This Worth It?
Sara Eckel discovers that volunteering isn’t about getting back more than you give. It’s just about giving.
Something to Believe In
Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyl on the power of belief to move us out of a small, self-focused world and into a bigger way of being.