Pema Chödrön: Turn Your Thinking Upside Down; 7 Life and Death Questions; A Conversation with Ruth Ozeki

 

09.28.2021

Turn Your Thinking Upside Down We base our lives on seeking happiness and avoiding suffering, but the best thing we can do for ourselves — and for the planet — is to turn this whole way of thinking upside down. Pema Chödrön shows us Buddhism’s radical side.

7 Life and Death Questions Michael Hebb, founder of Death Over Dinner, offers some important questions to guide your contemplation of mortality.

The Creative Force: In Conversation with Novelist Ruth Ozeki Ruth Ozeki is a Zen priest and the acclaimed author of My Year of Meats, A Tale for the Time Being, and the new novel The Book of Form and Emptiness. Lion’s Roar’s Nancy Chu talks to her about her creative process, the transformative power of grief, and what it’s like growing up mixed-race in America.

Songs to remind you that In This Moment, You Are Enough Rapper and musician Born I shares the inspiration behind his new album, In This Moment.

Miedo y valentía: Lo que enseñan los budistas Mucho de nuestro sufrimiento -como individuos y como sociedad- es causado por el miedo. De hecho, de acuerdo al budismo, el miedo se ubica en la mera raíz del ego y del samsara. Cuatro maestros budistas sobresalientes discuten la práctica vital de trabajar con nuestros miedos. Read “Fear and Fearlessness: What the Buddhists Teach” by Judy Lief, John Daido Loori, Robert Thurman, Sylvia Boorstein and Traleg Rinpoche in English here.

Free “Dalai Lama Compassion Summit” coming October 14 from Lion’s Roar and Tibet House This free online event is an historic investigation of the value held dearest by one of the great spiritual figures of our time, His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

The Five Remembrances To change your life now and prepare for the inevitable, says Pamela Ayo Yetunde, regularly contemplate these five home truths.