Guided Loving-Kindness Meditation with Sharon Salzberg; How Koans Show Us the Way; Mindfulness for Activists

 

10-Minute Guided Loving-Kindness Meditation with Sharon Salzberg Join renowned meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg for a guided loving-kindness meditation to offer metta to yourself and others.

How Koans Show Us the Way Koans, says Zen teacher Rachel Boughton, are a gate into the never-boring world of what we don’t know. She shares how to work with them.

Mindfulness for Activists Butterfly (Tony Pham) on how to act from clarity instead of rage, from compassion instead of fear.

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Buddhism A-Z: Five Buddha Families Each of the five buddha families represents a particular emotion, which has both a confused aspect and an enlightened aspect.

Share Your Wisdom: What dharma book has been most important to your life? What dharma book has been most important to your life and practice? Why has it meant so much to you? Send your answer, location, and a photo of yourself to themoment@lionsroar.com for possible inclusion in the next issue of Lion’s Roar magazine.

The Building Blocks of Belonging According to Willa Blythe Baker, making a strong, healthy community starts with understanding how it is constructed.

For Subscribers: “Great Dharma Teachers: Tenshin Reb Anderson” Audio Interview In this audio interview, Lion’s Roar’s Melvin McLeod sits down with Tenshin Reb Anderson, senior dharma teacher of the San Francisco Zen Center community, for a far-ranging conversation on the role of joy and warmth in practice, the bodhisattva path of dedication to others, and more.