Category: Mindfulness
Don’t I Know You?
When we overlook the strangers among us, we miss the chance to connect to people as they are, free of the usual ways we judge them.
How to Tame the Wanting Mind
You’re hungry, but what are you really hungry for? Sasha Loring on opening your heart, offering your attachments, and being mindful.
When Sadness Rages Like Fire
Pema Khandro Rinpoche shares the life of the Tibetan yogi Shabkar, whose practice and teachings were inseparable from loss and grief.
Finding Freedom: The Death Row Journey of Jarvis Jay Masters
Susan Moon on the spiritual journey of Jarvis Jay Masters, a Buddhist practitioner on death row in San Quentin prison.
The Supreme Meditation
Aging, illness and death are treasures for those who understand them. They’re Noble Truths, Noble Treasures. If they were people, I’d bow down to them.
Meditation & Therapy Working Together
Psychotherapy can be a powerful complement to spiritual practice, supporting our inspiration to develop awareness and compassion.
Don’t Pull the Trigger
Sometimes all it takes is a word or simple event and our thoughts and emotions are off to the races. David Richo on the fear that’s behind our triggers—and the antidote to it.
Notice Craving and Aversion
To give yourself a fighting chance against negative patterns, says Josh Korda, you’ve got to get at the driving forces behind them.
The Healing Power of the Truth
Playwright Eve Ensler’s book The Apology, written in her father’s voice, tells the story of the terrible abuse she suffered growing up. She talks to Andrea Miller about why it’s healing to tell the true story of your trauma.
Feeling Our Way to Awakening
The emotions we wish we didn’t have, that we’d like to just get over? Those feelings, say Jody Hojin Kimmel, are not obstacles on the path — they are the path.
Dissolve Your Fixation On Yourself
Buddhist meditation is about dissolving our fixation on ourselves, on the process of meditating, and on any result we might gain from it. Through meditation, we begin to get the hang of living with a non-grasping attitude. When you sit down to meditate, you can bring to your practice the notion of the threefold purity:…
In Times of Crisis, Draw Upon the Strength of Peace
When we are called upon to help in a crisis, says Kaira Jewel Lingo, we must respond. But the way we do is crucial.
Pema Chödrön on Meditation and the Middle Way
As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don’t deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can…
A Conversation on Love and Rage: Lama Rod Owens and Kate Johnson
In this conversation featured in Lama Rod Owens' new book "Love and Rage," he and Buddhist teacher Kate Johnson discuss how the dharma can help us hold our anger and work with our rage.
Happiness Is a Kind of Flower
Thich Nhat Hanh on how we can see happiness in the world around us.
The Nature of Fear
In this classic piece from the Lion's Roar archives, Joseph Goldstein explores the different types of fear, and how we can sit with fear and hold onto it in our practice.
The Solidarity Sutra
Scholar and Soto Zen Buddhist priest Duncan Ryuken Williams shares his <em>Solidarity Sutra</em> for the coronavirus age.
Review: “Big Love”
Big Love is a comprehensive and evocative biography of Lama Thubten Yeshe, rich in historical and cultural context.
True Practice Is Never Disengaged
If we feel like our practice is here, and the world is over there, says Karen Maezen Miller, then we’re missing the point of practice.
How to Work With Fear and Pain in a Moment of Crisis
Even when it feels like you're lost in the universe, Emily Horn explains, you can face the unknown with a still and calm heart-mind.