Archives: LR Articles
Beyond the Upper Middle Way
Convert Buddhism has a class problem: it appeals mostly to a narrow demographic of well-off college graduates. Buddhist scholar Ann Gleig offers some class consciousness to help Buddhism drop the barriers and benefit many more people.
Restoring the Mind to Kindness
Sylvia Boorstein on how to rescue your mind when confusion overwhelms it into suffering.
How to Practice Loving-Kindness
Joanna Hardy teaches us the famed Buddhist practice of metta – offering love to ourselves and others.
Buddhism’s Next 40 Years: The Importance of Diversity
In the second issue in our 40th anniversary series, Melvin McLeod looks at the importance of diversity in the development of modern Buddhism.
Noble Black Manhood: A New Rite of Passage
Diversity is more than just representation. It’s about really meeting the needs of different communities. Pamela Ayo Yetunde suggests how Buddhism can address the mass incarceration of young black men and its terrible costs.
The Invisible Majority
The vast majority of American Buddhists are of Asian heritage, yet they are too often ignored, mispresented, and even looked down upon. Chenxing Han offers four ways we can start to heal American Buddhism.
Review: In Love with the World
Lion's Roar reviews "In Love with the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying."
Free at Last
Rima Vesely-Flad reports on Deep Time Liberation, a retreat that takes African American meditators into the heart of slavery’s past so they can free themselves from its legacy of trauma.
Sleepy Mind, Monkey Mind
Anita Feng shares how to stop going back and forth between drowsiness and "monkey mind."