Wednesday, April 16, 2025

The Seven Factors of Awakening; Guided Body Scan Meditation; The Samsara of “Severance”

 


04.15.2025




The Seven Factors of Awakening


From mindfulness to joy to equanimity — when you cultivate beautiful qualities, they nourish your life and spiritual practice and enable you to be an agent of change in the world. Seven Buddhist teachers explain how.


 

Guided Body Scan Meditation with Christiane Wolf

Join former physician and renowned mindfulness and Insight (Vipassana) meditation teacher teacher Christiane Wolf for a guided body scan meditation to help release tension, reduce stress, and reconnect with your body through gentle awareness.
 


 

The Samsara of “Severance”

The surreal Apple TV+ series not only shows us the workings of karma and suffering, says Kim Thai, it also hints at liberation.


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New York City Co-Names Street “Thich Nhat Hanh Way” in Honor of Renowned Zen Teacher


On April 11, New York City co-named a stretch of West 109th Street “Thich Nhat Hanh Way” in a moving tribute to the late Zen teacher. Sandi Rankaduwa reports on the historic ceremony.


Exploring the Four Elements in the Body

In this new video — part of an ongoing teaching series published by Buddhadharma on Mingyur Rinpoche’s text Stainless Prajña: Stages of Meditation on the Treasury of Abhidharma — Rinpoche guides us to reflect on The Four Elements in the Body, exploring how these elements manifest within ourselves. This is followed by a short reflection by Tsunma Kunsang Palmo.


Read the Lion’s Roar Foundation 2024 “Report to Our Community”

Lion’s Roar is delighted to announce that we have released our 2024 Report to Our Community. Our annual community report highlights the Lion’s Roar Foundation’s activities and accomplishments in 2024, introduces our board and staff, and gives an overview of financial results for the year.


Student activist and former Columbia Buddhist Association leader Mohsen Mahdawi detained; facing deportation

Mohsen Mahdawi — a student activist who has been critical of Israel’s actions in Gaza, and is the former president of Columbia University’s Buddhist Association — was detained by immigration officials on Monday after arriving at an immigration center in order to take his US citizenship test.



For Subscribers: “Simple Meditations for Everyday Life” Guided Audio Collection


This audio series available exclusively to Lion’s Roar subscribers is designed to help even the busiest of us find a few brief moments to practice through short but powerful meditations. We can all spare a few minutes to come back to the present moment, and these short, simple, lovely meditations do just that.




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