Archives: LR Articles
Omitting None: The Deep Practice of Community
The practice of community, says Mushim Patricia Ikeda, is more than including beyond all people, even all beings. It mean including all thoughts, all emotions, all realities—the bad as well as the good.
Review: “Mop Rides the Waves of Life”
We review "Mop Rides the Waves of Life" by Jaimal Yogis and Matthew Allen.
Erased No More
After years of painful struggle to fit in, Yenkuei Chuang decides to stand up for her identity, her anger, and the heritage of Asian American Buddhism. She will resist erasure.
Love Trumps Hate
Bill Gaston despises a certain someone at the White House. Can any good come of it?
The Fifth Sight: The Suffering of Injustice
To the Buddhism’s traditional four causes of suffering we must now add a fifth: the suffering caused by racism, sexism, poverty, and all the other forms of human injustice. Only when seeing that clearly, says Ann Gleig, will our compassion will be complete.
The Heart of Good Spiritual Friends
When we are with others in times of suffering, says contemplative care expert Koshin Paley Ellison, we can take the four noble truths as our guide.
Our Inner Light
Only when we awaken to our own light can we be fully present to another person’s inner light and life, says Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat. "Only then can we respond fully, with nothing in the way."
In the Zone: The Zen of Sports
Mystics and poets aren't the only people who experience the transcendent. Andy Cooper on sports beyond conventional mind.
A Dive Into Emptiness
A talk by Dainin Katagiri Roshi about the Buddhist idea of emptiness — and, an unusual sport.