How to Be Resilient; Wisdom Is Your Superpower; 3 Questions to Come Back to Now

 

11.19.2024

How to Cultivate Resilience in Tough Times Shauna Shapiro explains how to face difficult emotions, re-center, and find calm.   Your Wisdom Is Your Superpower In the latest in a series of teachings for Buddhadharma on the Abhidharma, or Buddhist psychology, Mingyur Rinpoche explains how Abhidharma practice can transform our suffering, our experience, and our very selves.     Three Questions for Coming Back to Now Buddhist practitioner Leslie Davis offers three questions you can ask yourself to reel your running mind back to the present moment. ADVERTISEMENT How to Heal from Racial Harm Rev. Liên Shutt offers two methods for reconnecting with our innate wholeness. Books in Brief: November 2024 Sandi Rankaduwa reviews eight inspiring new books by authors of Asian descent. Watch: Tara Brach on Discovering Our Innate Goodness Tara Brach shares how awareness practice and mindful reflection reveal a timeless, formless presence within each of us — a “loving awareness” that shines beyond our personality and conditioning. For Subscribers: “Deep Dive Into Vipassana” Ebook Theravada is the earliest form of institutionalized Buddhism, still vital today. In the West, it largely manifests through the teaching of Vipassana, or Insight meditation, and the application of mindfulness, the awareness of what is happening now — thoughts, feelings, sensations — without judgment or attachment. In this ebook available exclusively to Lion’s Roar subscribers, you’ll learn the history behind Vipassana and how to practice it with wisdom from Bhante Bodhidhamma, Joseph Goldstein, Bhikkhu Bodhi and more.

 

11.15.2024 3 Guided Meditations for the Heart   For this Weekend Reader, we invite you to take a break from reading and join us in exploring three guided practices for the heart from the Lion’s Roar YouTube channel. Below, Spring Washam takes us through a self-compassion meditation, Chris Germer teaches a practice similar to tonglen to give and receive compassion, and Cheryl A. Giles offers a short and sweet five-minute metta meditation. We hope you’ll take a moment to nurture your mind and body with these enriching and heart-opening practices this weekend. May they give you the moment of peace, quiet, and connection you deserve.   Guided Self-Compassion Meditation Drawing on traditional metta meditation technique, Spring Washam helps us tap into our inner resilience, self-love, and cultivate overall wellbeing. ADVERTISEMENT Guided Meditation to Give & Receive Compassion In this 15-minute practice, psychologist Chris Germer gently guides you to synchronize your breath with compassion, taking in kindness for yourself and sending out compassion to others. 5-Minute Guided Loving-Kindness Meditation   Join Cheryl A. Giles for a five-minute compassion meditation to cultivate loving-kindness for yourself and others. LION’S ROAR PROMOTION

My Meditation Journey with Susan Kaiser Greenland in Two Days

 

Don’t Miss My Meditation Journey with Susan Kaiser Greenland in Two Days Dear Friend,  If you haven’t registered yet for My Meditation Journey with Susan Kaiser Greenland, this is a reminder that this event is in two days, on November 16, at 10 a.m. EST (New York), 4 p.m. CET (Berlin), and 11 p.m. HKT (Hong Kong). This program is free and open to everyone.

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Pema Chödrön’s 3 Methods for Working with Chaos; To Have and to Hold Each Other; Guided Meditation on Impermanence with Judy Lief

 

11.12.2024

Pema Chödrön’s Three Methods for Working with Chaos Pema Chödrön describes three ways to use our problems as the path to awakening and joy.    To Have and to Hold Each Other In the wake of the U.S. presidential election result, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel reflects on the ritual of voting and calls for compassion, urging us to honor our shared humanity and the sacredness of life.     Watch: Guided Meditation on Impermanence & Death with Judy Lief Join Judy Lief in a guided meditation on impermanence and death that unfolds in three stages, helping you cultivate presence, clarity, and a deeper understanding of life’s transitions. ADVERTISEMENT When Bodhisattvas Break In this piece now at Buddhadharma, Lama Karma Yeshe Chödrön invites us to find hope and resilience in our grief, just as the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, even after shattering under the weight of samsara, finds strength to alleviate the suffering of all beings. The 18th Annual Lion’s Roar Online Auction has begun! The 18th Annual Lion’s Roar Online Auction, our biggest fundraising event of the year, runs November 11th-24th. Register to bid and check out our catalogue here. Be Beautiful, Be Yourself : Q&A with Brother Trời Bảo Tạng Kim Thai interviews Brother Trời Bảo Tạng, a monastic in the Plum Village tradition, who discusses why a non-binary monastic order is needed, and the practice of speaking up and letting go. For Subscribers: “Meditations and Advice for Tough Times” Audio Teachings Pack This audio collection available exclusively to Lion’s Roar subscribers features talks and meditations to guide you through the complexities of suffering that we will all inevitably face, helping us remain present with our suffering while at the same time staying compassionate towards ourselves.