Detox Your Mind; Podcast: Black Male Vulnerability in Buddhist Community; I Never Gave Up on Dharma

 

05.03.2022

Detox Your Mind: 5 Practices to Purify the 3 Poisons Five Buddhist teachers share practices to clear away the poisons that cause suffering and obscure your natural enlightenment.

The Lion’s Roar Podcast: Black Male Vulnerability in Buddhist Community This episode of The Lion’s Roar Podcast features Willie Mukei Shoman Smith, SoOn Eli Brown-Stevenson, and Malik (MaLLy) Watkins.

I Never Gave Up on Dharma: Ngakpa Kalzang’s Journey from Tibet Dhondup T. Rekjong tells the story of Ngakpa Kalzang, an exile of Tibet and experienced tantric Buddhist practitioner working as a landscaper on Canada’s Vancouver Island, bridging a life of traditional knowledge and the modern world.

Reimagining School Through a Buddhist Lens Susan Yao explores how Buddhist principles could help us reimagine the American school system.

Can We Know Others’ Worlds? Constance Kassor reviews Other Lives: Mind and World in Indian Buddhism, by Sonam Kachru.

How to Practice Zazen Jules Shuzen Harris teaches Zazen, the meditation practice at the heart of Zen Buddhism.

New for Subscribers: “Great Dharma Teachers: Reb Anderson” Audio Interview This audio interview available exclusively to Lion’s Roar subscribers features a far-ranging conversation between Tenshin Reb Anderson, senior dharma teacher of the San Francisco Zen Center community, and Lion’s Roar editor-in-chief Melvin McLeod. Topics include the role of joy and warmth in practice, the bodhisattva path of dedication to others, and more.