Lessons of Covid-19; Six kinds of loneliness; The wisdom of anger

07.21.2020

Lessons of Covid-19 Recovering from Covid-19 has felt like a losing game of Chutes and Ladders, says hospital chaplain Kristina Pearson. She shares the lessons of impermenance, acceptance, and wise hope she’s learned along the way.

Trane of No-Thought: How Meditation Inspired Jazz Great John Coltrane On the 53rd-anniversary year of the death of John Coltrane, Zen teacher Sean Murphy looks back at the jazz icon and how meditation practice and a deep interest in Eastern traditions informed his monumental late-period work.

The Wisdom of Anger If you know how to use it, says Melvin McLeod, the energy of anger becomes fierce and compassionate wisdom. Because even the buddhas get angry about suffering and injustice.

Six Kinds of Loneliness To be without a reference point is the ultimate loneliness. It is also called enlightenment.

The Lion’s Roar Podcast: Apology from an Abusive Father with Eve Ensler Sharing your most personal stories can seem impossible. But in her book The Apology, Eve Ensler goes one impossible step further: she tells the story of her abusive father from his perspective. In this interview with Lion’s Roar’s Andrea Miller, she explains how she found the courage to tell the story of her abuse.

The Longstanding Debate over Vegetarianism in Tibet In his review of Geoffrey Barstow’s The Faults of Meat, Rory Lindsay examines the little-known teachings around vegetarianism in Tibetan Buddhism.

Thich Nhat Hanh on Healing the Child Within The cry we hear from deep in our hearts, says Thich Nhat Hanh, comes from the wounded child within. Healing this inner child’s pain is the key to transforming anger, sadness, and fear.