Realize Your True Nature; Can a Chatbot Share Dharma?; How Menopause Made Me a Better Buddhist

 

03.28.2023

Realize Your True Nature Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche presents practices for recognizing the true nature of mind — empty and open, luminous and aware. From the May 2023 issue of Lion’s Roar.

Can a Chatbot Share True Dharma? Jiryu Mark Rutschman-Byler contemplates the dharma implications of artificial intelligence and shares the story of “Roshibot,” an AI bot he created and trained with the teachings of the late Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki Roshi.

How Menopause Made Me a Better Buddhist Chokey Tsering recounts her turbulent experience with perimenopause, and how it allowed her to access a new side to her Buddhist practice.

America Needs bell hooks The late cultural critic bell hooks played a vital role in twenty-first-century activism through her work exploring the historical function of race and gender in America. Now, writes Melvin McLeod, her work as a powerful woman of color, feminist, and penetrating critic of racial injustice in America has become a target. Lion’s Roar is proud to offer this selection of her writings and conversations from our pages on spirituality, race, feminism, and life.

How to Practice Walking Meditation In walking meditation, you place your full attention on the process of walking—from the shifting of the weight in your body to the mechanics of placing your foot.  Leslie Booker offers step-by-step instruction.

Thich Nhat Hanh on the Sunlight of Awareness Shine the warm light of awareness on your thoughts and feelings, says Thich Nhat Hanh.

Los cuatro fundamentos de la atención plena del Buda Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi desempaca el manual de atención plena original del Buda. Read “The Buddha’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness” in English, here.

For Subscribers: “Nature Meditations” Audio Pack In this audio meditation collection available exclusively to Lion’s Roar subscribers, Larry Ward encourages us to “Listen to the Sounds of the Earth”; Brother Phap Luu shows how even a pebble can bring us back home; Leslie Booker teaches a basic walking meditation (try it outdoors!) that can powerfully bring us back to the present; and Yogetsu Akasaka inspires us with an original piece of music that invokes Buddhist chants — and evokes the sounds of the universe.