Archives: LR Articles
Suffering Opens The Real Path
Norman Fischer explains why it’s suffering that gives us the incentive, vision, and strength to transform our lives.
Knowing This Truth is Noble
When we accept dukkha or suffering in all its forms we stop denying it. A person is noble when one understands dukkha and how to work with it.
A Plea for the Animals
Animals feel suffering and want to live—just like us. Why do we withhold our compassion and kill these sentient beings by the billions?
How to Be a Help
We may not be able to stop someone from dying or suffering pain, but we can still help through the honesty, compassion and presence of mind we bring.
The Four Seals of Dharma are Buddhism in a Nutshell
People often ask me: “What is Buddhism in a nutshell?” Or they ask, “What is the particular view or philosophy of Buddhism?” Unfortunately, in the West Buddhism seems to have landed in the religious department, even in the self-help or self-improvement department, and clearly it’s in the trendy meditation department. I would like to challenge…
Leading neuroscientists and Buddhists agree: “Consciousness is everywhere”
New theories suggest Buddhist teachings on consciousness may be correct, and the implications for science could be huge.
How do Buddhism and yoga work together?
I’ve been practicing yoga for many years and love it. Recently I’ve become interested in Buddhism. How do the two practices work together?
Watch this moving TED talk on how a Zen hospice is “redesigning” death
In this TED Talk, BJ Miller, a palliative caregiver at the Zen Hospice Project, describes how he wants to see death redesigned.
This Zen priest teaches the Buddha’s middle-way approach to eating
Meet the Silicon Valley data scientist who is using the example of the Buddha to help Americans rethink their relationship to food.