Pema Chödrön: How We Get Hooked and Unhooked; Practice Death Awareness; Help When Your Heart Breaks

 

08.17.2021

How We Get Hooked and How We Get Unhooked Pema Chödrön on shenpa, or the urge, the hook, that triggers our habitual tendency to close down. We get hooked in that moment of tightening when we reach for relief. To get unhooked, we begin by recognizing that moment of unease and learn to relax in that moment.

Spiritual Free Agents: The Buddhists of Gen Z Gen Z has been called the “least religious generation,” but their story is still being written. Kevin Singer reports on why some Gen Zers are drawn to Buddhism and the findings of Springtide Research Institute’s survey The State of Religion and Young People.

Help When Your Heart Breaks Caring for people who are suffering is a loving, even heroic calling, but it takes a toll. Roshi Joan Halifax teaches this five-step program to care for yourself while caring for others.

The Life-Changing Practice of Death Awareness Chris Pacheco, Lion’s Roar’s Associate AV Editor, on why you might take up the Buddhist practice of maranasati, or mindfulness of death — even if you really, really don’t want to.

Comparando el Mahamudra y el Dzogchen Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920–1996) acerca de las diferencias entre las prácticas del Mahamudra y el Dzogchen, y la relación entre ellas. Read “Comparing Mahamudra and Dzogchen” by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche in English here.

How to Practice Chanting It’s an expression of oneness — with the Buddha, with the sangha, with the cosmos itself. Mark Unno teaches you how to let go into the flow of chanting.

Dharma Realm Buddhist University launches graduate certificate program in Buddhist translation The new program beginning this fall offers students the opportunity to “immerse themselves in ancient eastern languages at the graduate level.”