Category: Buddhist Wisdom
The Beautiful Energy of Thoughts
Thoughts can make meditation a challenge. Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche tells us how we can experience thoughts as freedom, not imprisonment.
Embracing Change, We Discover the Changeless (Editorial/May 2012)
Editor-in Chief Melvin McLeod's editorial introduction to the May 2012 issue of Lion's Roar, explaining the theme of Embracing Change.
Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan talks about “A Mindful Nation”
Via Mindful.org: It isn't every day that we hear a U.S. congressman talking about mindfulness, much less in these terms:
Breaking Through
After twenty-one years of intensive study, Kelsang Wangmo, a German-born Tibetan Buddhist nun, has become the first woman to receive the prestigious geshe degree. In this report from 2012, Amy Yee recounts her unlikely and courageous journey.
Dzogchen and Mahamudra, Two Great Paths
Dzogchen and Mahamudra, the Great Perfection and the Great Seal, are powerful meditative systems for revealing the nature of mind.
The Genjo Koan
Dogen’s seminal teaching, The Genjo Koan, translated by Robert Aitken and Kazuaki Tanahashi.
All This Is Genjo Koan
The lifetime teaching of Dogen can be found in one phrase: Genjo koan, says Nishiari Bokusan, the late head of the Soto school.
Ask The Teachers: Must you be a monk to attain enlightenment?
The teachers are asked whether it is necessary to be a monk to attain enlightenment.
A Cry for Freedom
Robert Thurman's commentary on the Tibetan plight and the horrifying phenomenon of Tibetans self-immolating in protest of Chinese rule.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche remembers Arbie Thalacker
Remembrance of Arbie Thalacker by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, dharma teacher and president of the Karmapa Foundation.