Category: Buddhist Wisdom
9 Essential Books for Your Meditation Library
If you're looking for good reads to begin or deepen your relationship to Buddhist meditation, you can't go wrong with these nine essential picks.
Develop a Mind Like Sky
Meditation comes alive through a growing capacity to release our habitual conflicts and worries that make up our sense of self, and to rest in awareness.
Oh Tara, Protect Us
In this teaching, Thubten Chodron comments on a prayer to the buddha Tara to protect us from the eight dangers.
Death: The Greatest Teacher
Buddhist teacher Judy Lief explains why our awareness of death is the secret of life.
Buddhist nun Ayya Khema was a force of nature — and of unconditional love
Lion's Roar's Rod Meade Sperry talks to Leigh Brasington about a new posthumous release from Ayya Khema, "The Path to Peace: A Buddhist Guide to Cultivating Loving-kindness."
The Sutta Pitaka
What was it like to gather around the Buddha and hear him teach? To find out, says Pascale F. Engelmajer, just read the suttas.
7 Things the Buddha Never Said
Monk Thanissaro Bhikkhu, a trained translator of the Buddha's words, reveals seven fake Buddha quotes he's found. See if you're not surprised.
All Alone or One With Everything?
Are we all alone in this world or at one with everything? Nick Walser shines a spotlight on the paradoxical nature of loneliness.
The Sacred Work of Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros writes to honor her ancestors, because when that’s her motivation, ego gets out of the way. Angélica Paljor profiles the celebrated author of The House on Mango Street.