How to Create a Meditation Space; 59 Ways to Turn Your Mind Around; Who Was the Buddha?

 

04.02.2024

How to Create a Meditation Space No matter your living situation, you can have a place to practice. Yaotunde Obiora explains.   59 Ways to Turn Your Mind Around The way to bodhicitta, the mind of compassion, is marked by the fifty-nine lojong slogans. Gaylon Ferguson points us in the right direction. Who Was the Buddha? “Buddha” means “one who is awake.” The Buddha who lived 2,600 years ago was not a god. He was an ordinary person, named Siddhartha Gautama. Para leer este artículo en español: ¿Quién fue el Buda?  ADVERTISEMENT The Revolution Begins with the Self Your individual meditation practice can aid collective liberation. Dr. g explains.   The Playful Dance of Awakened Mind Lama Döndrup Drölma on the illusory nature of phenomena and how we can wake up to reality’s true nature via the body-mind connection. Engaged Parenting as Spiritual Practice For years, Buddhist practitioner Leslie Davis felt she was too busy being a mother to practice Thich Nhat Hanh’s tradition of “Engaged Buddhism” properly. Eventually, she discovered that parenting itself is a form of Engaged Buddhism. For Subscribers: “Facing Death with Wisdom & Compassion” Audio Pack In this audio collection available exclusively to Lion’s Roar subscribers, Trudy Goodman gives a talk and teaches a practice for “cutting through deep identification with the body”; Judy Lief explains how to relate to death (and life!) through Tibetan Buddhism’s bardo system; Roshi Joan Halifax teaches practices for transforming grief. LION’S ROAR PROMOTION