Lion's Roar

The Lion's Roar celebrates the spirit of wakefulness wherever it appears - in the arts, relationships, politics, livelihood, popular culture, and all the challenges of modern life. It offers a Buddhist view for people of all spiritual traditions who are open, inquisitive, passionate and committed.

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Lion's Roar US • BUDDHIST WISDOM TO AWAKEN YOUR HEART & MIND

THERE’S ALWAYS A LIGHT

“HUNGRY GHOST, LET GO OF THIS WOMAN!” • Zen priest RENSHIN BUNCE tells the dramatic story of the time she performed a successful exorcism. The key was respect and compassion—for both the haunted woman and the spirits.

THE HEALING POWER OF THE TRUTH • Playwright EVE ENSLER’s most recent book, The Apology, describes the terrible abuse she suffered growing up. She talks to Andrea Miller about why it’s so important to tell the true story of your trauma.

STEADFAST IN THE MIDST OF TURMOIL • Humanity has always been plagued by ignorance, greed, and bigotry. But, says SHINSHU ROBERTS, we’ve also been rescued by people dedicated to the truth of interconnection.

WHAT BUDDHIST TEACHING OR PRACTICE IS HELPING YOU THE MOST IN THIS CRISIS?

LOVE IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS • How does a three-year-old make sense of viruses, social distancing, and talking pandas? IRA SUKRUNGRUANG on caring for his son while sheltering in place.

THE RIGHT WAY TO REACH THE TOP • We have a whole system built on striving and it causes a lot of suffering—anxiety, competition, misplaced priorities. BRAD STULBERG looks at ways we can change our stressful striving into right effort.

NOT TOO STRICT, NOT TOO LOOSE

REV. DOYEON PARK

Buddhist Wisdom to GET US THROUGH • Buddhist teachings and meditations are made for times like these. When we need it most, they help us access the best of who we are as human beings. Calm, kind, and resilient, we can help ourselves and others get through this.

The Healing Power in Your Heart

Dear Bodhisattvas

A Time for Remembering

3 Short Practices for This Time

How to Have Wise Hope

Remove the Second Arrow of Suffering

Give Yourself a Little T & B

Omitting None: The Deep Practice of Community

3 Ways to Work with Your Money Worries

What’s Next: Keep Your Mindfulness Going

How to Have the World—and the Life—We Want • As we work to face the immediate crisis, we can’t lose sight of our hope to create a more compassionate, just, and sustainable society. Leading Buddhist teacher SHARON SALZBERG talks about how to care for ourselves, for others—and for our future. Because we’re in it for the long haul.

5 Tips for Spiritual Activists • BILL AIKEN offers five Buddhist insights to be a more effective agent of change

The Real Change We Need • Using Buddhist principles, economist CLAIR BROWN identifies the policies we need to have a caring society and a sustainable future.

A Marriage Made in Heaven • Leading Christian writer Anne Lamott is married to Vipassana practitioner Neal Allen. ANDREA MILLER on how this interfaith couple has found the sweet spot where their beliefs meet. They call it “the holy moment.”

Hope Does Push-Ups • Hope can be dashed so easily. Just as easily, says ANNE LAMOTT, it can be restored.

5 Ways to Get into the Meditation Habit • There’s nothing like the benefit of a regular meditation practice, and there’s no better time to do it than now. Zen Buddhist JESSE JIRYU DAVIS on five ways you can make meditation a helpful part of your daily routine.

You Can Start Meditating Today • CRAIG and DEVON HASE teach a five-minute practice you can do to start meditating right now.

The Fashion Fantasy • In the world of fashion, there is no old age, sickness, or death. In the world of...