Archives: LR Articles
This Is Getting Old
Old age forces you to let go of one damn thing after another! But as Susan Moon learns from her mother, it can also be a golden opportunity.
Mindfulness: The Most Direct Path
Insight teacher James Baraz teaches how to train mindfulness with sitting meditation from the Vipassana tradition.
Survival of the Kindest
Psychologist Paul Ekman reveals Charles Darwin’s real view of compassion—and it’s not what you might think.
Age-Old Affinity
Taking her newborn to an assisted living facility, Misha Becker discovers the mysterious kinship between the very old and the very young.
Swamis, Stars & Six-Packs: Yoga’s Twisted History
Review of Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice and The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America
Charlotte Joko Beck, Joseph Goldstein, Sylvia Boorstein, and Sharon Salzberg on how meditation has changed their lives
How might meditation change a life? Author Donna Rockwell asked four teachers just that. How do their answers resonate with your experience?
Make the Most of Your Pilgrimage
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche explains how to get the most out of your spiritual journey to India, from generating proper motivation to the most effective practices for accumulating merit and wisdom while visiting Buddhism’s holy sites.
Mindfulness for pain and “FOMO”
Arnie Kozak on how subversive mindfulness meditation is to our cultural norms of healing and medicine.
Wash Your Bowl: Marc Lesser on bringing your relationships, work, and life alive
Marc Lesser reminds us of one simple fact: that it is up to us to look within ourselves and to bring our work and our lives alive.
On the Buddhism Beat: “Know Your Tendai” — A Q&A with Dr. Stephen G. Covell
Danny Fisher interviews Dr. Stephen G. Covell on the different traditions of Buddhism found in Japanese culture.