Rest In Your Buddhanature; The Practice of Generosity; Listen Deeply for Peace

 

03.15.2022

Rest In Your Buddhanature Your true nature is like the sky, says Mingyur Rinpoche, its love and wisdom unaffected by the clouds of life. You can access it with this awareness meditation.

First, an Open Hand In any presentation of the paramitas, dana, or generosity, always comes first — Nikki Mirghafori explains why. From the Spring 2022 issue of Buddhadharma.

Listening Deeply for Peace Without deep listening and gentle loving speech it is very difficult to move towards peace. Peace will only become a reality, says the late Thich Nhat Hanh, when world leaders come to negotiations with the ability to hear the suffering at the root of all conflicts.

How to Practice Dedicating Merit When we dedicate our meditation to others, says Lama Palden Drolma, we make our practice more open and beneficial. Illustrations by Carole Hénaff.

New for Subscribers: “How to Die a Good Death” Audio Teachings Pack In this audio collection from our Audio Library available exclusively to Lion’s Roar subscribers, Trudy Goodman gives a talk and teaches a practice for “cutting through deep identification with the body”; Judy Lief explains how to relate to death (and life!) through Tibetan Buddhism’s bardo system; Roshi Joan Halifax teaches practices for transforming grief.

Meet a Teacher Bhante Sanathavihari An interview with Bhante Sanathavihari from our “Meet a Teacher” series in the March 2022 issue of Lion’s Roar magazine.

How Endings Make Room for Beginnings “When I recognize the pain I feel because of loss,” says Sylvia Boorstein, “I am respectful of its presence and kind to myself. And in the truth of what has ended, I see displays of what might be beginning.”