Buddhists on Biden’s win; Feeling our way to awakening; We are more powerful than we know

 

11.10.2020

Biden’s presidential win: Buddhists respond In the midst of the historic 2020 U.S. presidential election, Lion’s Roar reached out to Buddhism-informed leaders and teachers for their responses to the process and its result: the victory of Joe Biden. Roshi Joan Halifax, Lama Tsomo, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, Norman Fischer, and more provide commentary and look at what we can do moving forward.

We Are More Powerful Than We Know Awaiting the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Chenxing Han turns to the prose of Japanese poet and Buddhist monk Kamo-no-Chomei (1155–1216) and ponders his same questions, 800 years later.

Feeling Our Way to Awakening The emotions we wish we didn’t have, that we’d like to just get over? Those feelings, say Jody Hojin Kimmel, are not obstacles on the path — they are the path.

The Progressive Buddha Karma Lekshe Tsomo on the Buddha as social reformer — for his time and ours.

The 14th Annual Lion’s Roar Online Auction begins November 12 The 14th Annual Lion’s Roar Online Auction, our biggest fundraising event of the year, will open for bidding on November 12. Take a look at our catalog of items.

How to Do Metta Jack Kornfield on beginning this time-honored, heart-opening practice.

The Dalai Lama congratulates President-elect Joe Biden “I hope you will be able to contribute to shaping a more peaceful world in which people suffering poverty and injustice find relief,” the Dalai Lama writes to President-elect Joe Biden. “The need to address these issues, as well as climate change, is indeed pressing.”