Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche shares a teaching on Buddhism’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness — form, feeling, mind, and phenomena — and how they lead us to experience the deeply analytical insights found in the Abhidharma, known more colloquially as “Buddhist psychology.”
Through mindfulness practice you can shine the light of insight on the true nature of yourself and your world. Psychologist and mindfulness teacher Rick Hanson on six different ways you’re liberated by seeing reality clearly.
Lojong is a Tibetan Buddhist practice wherein one contemplates a series of 59 slogans designed to help replace negative mental habits with positive ones. Pamela Ayo Yetunde shares a unique guided practice combining lojong slogans and loving-kindness meditation.
Mark Amaratunga explores the strange phenomenon of the Mandela Effect — collective false memories that reveal the fluid, constructed nature of perception.
Mariana Restrepo, deputy editor of Buddhadharma, speaks with Dharma teacher Scott Tusa while on pilgrimage in Nepal, reflecting on the intersections of practice, pilgrimage, and parenting — from shared monastic roots to the realities of everyday life.
Tonglen meditation, or “sending and taking”, is an ancient Buddhist practice to awaken compassion. With each in-breath, we take in others’ pain. With each out-breath, we send them relief. It can be done both as a formal meditation practice or on the spot in a moment of need. In this ebook available exclusively to Lion’s Roar subscribers, you’ll find two different instructions for tonglen meditation, as well as personal accounts of how this practice can help us strengthen our inherent capacity for compassion.
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