To free ourselves from habitual patterns, says Valerie Mason-John, we need to see how they have become part of our identity.
TV character Ted Lasso embodies what we need right now: goodness. In a world of antiheroes, says Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, he just wants to make us better people.
We humans are gifted at finding fault. Buddhist teacher Tara Brach teaches us how we can connect to compassion instead.
From just sitting to cooking as practice, Dogen defined how most of us understand Zen today. Steven Heine on the life and global impact of Dogen Zenji.
From being to the nature of time, Dogen explored the big questions. Four experts unpack some of his most influential concepts.
Tami Simon, founder of Sounds True, brings the spirit of enlightenment not only to her company’s products but to its culture. (Plus, dogs.)
It’s the Buddha’s basic teaching. It’s life’s universal truth. It’s what we most want to deny. Sallie Jiko Tisdale on how this hard but liberating truth can transform your life.
An excerpt from Ruth Ozeki’s new novel, “The Book of Form and Emptiness.”
Editor-in-Chief Melvin McLeod reflects on the importance of death in Buddhist philosophy in the opening editorial of the November 2021 issue of Lion’s Roar.
Scholar and practitioner Ann Gleig on the backlash she and others experience against their work for racial justice in Buddhism.
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