What is shikantaza? Suzuki Roshi, the great Zen teacher, says that it is the experience of receiving a “letter from emptiness”
This basic mindfulness meditation from Zen teacher James Ishmael Ford offers a great practice to start your day.
On the occasion of Pema Chödrön’s birthday, Lion’s Roar’s deputy editor Andrea Miller shares the important lessons Pema has taught her.
Three Buddhist teachers answer the question “Are we supposed to stop or transcend thinking altogether, or to find another, more enlightened way to think?”
Christiane Wolf on how to practice sympathetic joy, or mudita — delight in the happiness of others.
In this teaching from the late Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, he explores how looking deeply at a sunflower can help us discover the reality of interbeing.
Valerie Mason-John shares a meditation for cultivating a positive relationship with yourself, and, by extension, the world.
Out of the primordial desire to exist, everything comes into being. This sacred force, says Anam Thubten, is different from clinging, which is the source of our suffering.
Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward on how to give the wounded child inside you the love and compassion they deserve.
Shine the warm light of awareness on your thoughts and feelings, says Thich Nhat Hanh.
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