Working with Holiday Loneliness; The Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg unite against climate crisis; The 2020 Holiday Buddhist Book List

 

12.22.2020

Working with Holiday Loneliness Despite what you may see on social media, many people are feeling lonely this pandemic holiday season, writes Lisa Ernst. She shares how the dharma can help us hold both connection and loneliness in our hearts through difficult times.

The Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg Unite Against the Climate Crisis Two of the earth’s most ardent climate advocates, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg, are joining their voices together to discuss what we can do collectively to correct the impact of destructive climate feedback loops.

The 2020 Holiday Buddhist Book List Looking for a last-minute holiday gift for your loved one? Here’s a collection of Buddhist books published this year that will make great gifts for those young and old.

The Story Behind the Stupa At the heart of the legend of the Great Boudha Stupa in Kathmandu, we find the pure aspiration of a “poultry-woman,” Jadzim, and her four remarkable sons. Patrick Dowd tells the tale.

What to Do When Aggression Masquerades as Compassion Rashid Hughes, co-founder of the Heart Refuge Mindfulness Community, shares how mindfulness helps us discern if our compassion is actually aggression. With patience, he says, we can undo the patterns of that aggression and instead access authentic compassion.

How to Work with the Winter Blues “Perhaps,” says Sylvia Boorstein, “these days of less sunlight are opportunities for more contemplative time, more looking deeply to see what can only be seen in the dark.”

Bringing Right and Wise Intention to POC Sanghas In this excerpt from Black and Buddhist, Pamela Ayo Yetunde offers advice for POC considering entering a dharma community, and shares the importance of utilizing Right Intention when doing so.