Archives: LR Articles
It’s Time to Listen
Margaret Wheatley discusses how to heal in the months following the tragedy of September 11, 2001.
You Are Avalokiteshvara
Eric Holm on how visualization practice helps us overcome ego and pacify obstacles. Includes “A Visualization Practice: Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion.” The buddhadharma is renowned for its skillful methods of meditative training. In Vajrayana Buddhism, many of these methods are based on the visualization of archetypal wisdom forms, or deities. Visualization practices come from…
Don’t Be So Sure
In a changing world, certainty doesn't give us stability; it just creates more chaos. "Now is the time for far less certainty and far more curiousity."
Taking the Time
If we feel we're changing in ways we don't like then we need time to think-about where we are now and how we might start to change things.
What did Yan T’ou Whisper? A Commentary on “Te Shan Holds His Bowl”
Zen Buddhist priest Norman Fischer gives a commentary on "Te Shan Holds His Bowl", a Zen koan.
Something Has to Change: Blacks in American Buddhism
Lawrence Pintak tells the compelling stories of three African-American dharma teachers. He asks them why American Buddhism attracts so few people of color and what can be done about it.
Zen’s Radical Conservative: John Daido Loori Roshi
John Daido Loori is an imaginative modernizer yet fierce upholder of the old ways of Zen. John Kain reports from Zen Mountain Monastery.
The Miracle of Downward Dog
Buddhist practitioner Mark Epstein discovers the joys of hatha yoga.
Religion Without God
What does it mean to be a religion without a God? More broadly, what does it mean to live without an exterior savior of any kind?