Thursday, April 6, 2023

What Really Makes Us Happy; Podcast: Medicine for Internalized Racism; 12 New Films that Highlight the Best in Humanity

 

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04.04.2023
What Really Makes Us Happy
As a Buddhist teacher, psychiatrist, and leading researcher, Dr. Robert Waldinger studies life from three very different perspectives. But he says they all come to the same basic conclusion about what really makes our lives happy and meaningful, and what doesn’t. From the May 2023 issue of Lion’s Roar.

The Lion’s Roar Podcast: Medicine for Internalized Racism with Karla Jackson-Brewer
Karla Jackson-Brewer is a senior teacher with the Tara Mandala Buddhist Retreat Center and longtime student of Lama Tsultrim Allione. In this conversation, Lion’s Roar’s Pamela Ayo Yetunde talks with her about internalized racism and the medicine Buddhism can offer to heal it.
 
12 New Films That Highlight the Best in Humanity
Greater Good, an output of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, recently announced the recipients of their annual “Greater Goodies” awards, highlighting films that showcase the best of human nature. This year, they gave the award to 12 films that “exemplify human strength and virtue.” 
 
 
The Boundless Energy of No-Self
Zoketsu Norman Fischer on his deep love for Shantideva and how the great teacher’s insights lead us unavoidably to a path of vigorous service to the world.
 
Dakini Energy: Feminist-Buddhist Artist Michela Martello
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong profiles the inspiring feminist-Buddhist artist Michela Martello—her life, her work, and the dream that put her on the spiritual path.
 
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.  
 
For Subscribers: for Subscribers: “Deep Dive Into Tonglen” Ebook
This ebook available exclusively to Lion’s Roar subscribers explores the an ancient Buddhist practice to awaken compassion: tonglen meditation. In this helpful guide, you’ll find two different instructions for tonglen meditation, as well as a personal accounts of how this practice can help us to strengthen our inherent capacity for compassion.
 

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