Master Buddhist Thich Nhat Hanh Reveals The Brutal Truth About Happiness In Less Than 2 Lines
by Lachlan Brown: We’ve all asked the question, “what is happiness?” […]
Tibetan Buddhist Tradition Has Seen Many Highly Realised Female Lamas: His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Dharamshala: In an interaction with Tibetan community, particularly students in Bangalore last week… […]
The Mindfulness Of The Buddha
by Phillip Moffitt: The Buddha’s mindfulness has one purpose—the end of suffering. Do secular programs do the same thing? […]
Neuroscience Has A Lot To Learn From Buddhism – Matthieu Ricard
by Matthieu Ricard and Wolf Singer: A scientist and a monk compare notes on meditation, therapy, and their effects on the brain… […]
The Four Elements of True Love According to Buddha
by Francesca F: How to Deepen Our Relationships… […]
How to Practice Right Speech Anywhere, Anytime, and With Anyone
By Krishnan Venkatesh: And why right speech begins with good listening. […]
The 4 Main Spiritual Practices Of Tibetan Buddhism
by Chad Foreman: Tibetan Buddhism… […]
The Dalai Lama Says The Heart Of Meditation Is To Discover Innermost Awareness
by Dalai Lama: Innermost Awareness Is The Essence Of All Tibetan Buddhist Teachings… […]
The 14 Principles Of Engaged Buddhism – Thich Nhat Hanh
by Thich Nhat Hanh: The Order of Interbeing (Tiep Hien) was formed by the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh in the mid-1960’s… […]
Why Buddhism Is True
Robert Wright on the wisdom of mindfulness meditation… […]
Dr. Woodson Merrell
A talk by Dr. Woodson Merrell, from the Urban Zen Foundation […]
Pema Chödrön – Looking Into Laziness
Pema Chödrön: Rather than feeling discouraged by laziness, we could get to know laziness profoundly. This very moment of laziness becomes our personal teacher. […]
The 14 Principles Of Engaged Buddhism – Thich Nhat Hanh
by Thich Nhat Hanh: The Order of Interbeing (Tiep Hien) was formed by the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh in the mid-1960’s… […]
Profound Conviction: Roshi Joan Halifax and Dhammananda Bhikkhuni
The struggle to establish a Theravada Bhikkhuni Sangha in Thailand has faced immense opposition from state authorities… […]
Buddhism, Science And The Western World: Changing The Way We See Life
by Alexa Erickson: Are you religious? Spiritual? Purely scientific? […]
The Dalai Lama Says The Heart Of Meditation Is To Discover Innermost Awareness
Innermost awareness is the essence of all Tibetan Buddhist teachings… […]
Become A Buddha
by Sadhguru: On the occasion of Buddha Pournami, Sadhguru tells us what it means and what it takes to be a Buddha… […]
Women in Buddhism: Profiles, Conversations, and Teachings
LionsRoar.com presents a collection of our best teachings from, profiles on, and conversations with women in Buddhism… […]
Meditation & Divination: A Review Of The Taoist I Ching
by Bill Scheffel: This is the first of five periodic articles reviewing some of “the best books on mediation…” […]
What Is The Middle Way?
by Bill Scheffel: Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed… […]
Yoga and Buddhism: Similarities And Differences
by David Frawley: Yoga and Buddhism are sister traditions which evolved in the same spiritual culture of ancient India… […]
Stand Against Suffering: An Unprecedented Call To Action By Buddhist Teachers
Thirteen leading Buddhist teachers, joined by more than 100 additional signatories, call on Buddhists and all people of faith to take a stand against policies… […]
What Is The Subtle Body?
by Bill Scheffel: This is the second of five periodic articles reviewing some of the “best books on mediation…” […]
Graphic Buddhist Meditation to Eliminate Anger (Powerful) – Dhanpal-Donna Quesada
by Dhanpal-Donna Quesada: This is a very potent Guided Buddhist Meditation for eliminating anger and hatred, through the contemplation and imagery of death and impermanence… […]
Buddha Meets The Matrix
by Robert Thurman: What does Buddhism have in common with The Matrix? […]
Neuroscience Learns What Buddhism Has Known For Ages: There is No Constant Self
Evan Thomson, a researcher from the University of British Colombia, has confirmed that the Buddhist teaching of a constantly changing self is accurate… […]
Buddhism’s Big Lies – Karen Maezen Miller
by Karen Maezen Miller: Karen Maezen Miller breaks down the three most common lies in Buddhist discourse… […]
Greatest Love Of All
When you incorporate Buddhism’s four immeasurables into your life, your love won’t be attached to just one person, says Lodro Rinzler… […]
In The Pure Land Of The Present Moment
by Sister Dang Nghiem: : A discourse by the Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh, as told by his disciple Sister Dang Nghie… […]
Thich Nhat Hanh The Practice of Sangha
by Thich Nhat Hanh: Thich Nhat Hanh explains that sangha is more than a community, it’s a deep spiritual practice… […]
11 Pearls Of Wisdom From The 14th Dalai Lama
by Andrea Schulman: The Dalai Lama is a monk and the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism. […]
The Dalai Lama: Studying Mind from the Inside
The Dalai Lama: While scientific methods are useful, says His Holiness the Dalai Lama, mind should also be studied through rigorous observation of our own subjective experience. […]
What Is Pure Land?
by Jeff Wilson: When beings awaken to buddhahood, their realization affects the environment around them… […]
What Is The Unconscious In Buddhism?
by Bill Scheffel: In examining the Buddhist view of the unconscious we might first look at our most prevalent contemporary notions of this term… […]
Does The Buddha Always Tell The Truth?
by Shambhala Sun: Sam Harris thinks honesty is the best policy. KAREN MAEZEN MILLER argues for a more nuanced understanding of right speech… […]
Tara Brach: Awakening From the Trance of Unworthiness
by Tara Brach: Our most fundamental sense of well-being is derived from the conscious experience of belonging. Relatedness is essential to survival. […]
The Dalai Lama And Desmond Tutu: “The Book of Joy”
In the new book, “The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World” (Avery), two renowned and inspiring figures — […]
The Dalai Lama And Desmond Tutu On Seeking Joy
We hear a lot about “joy to the world” this time of year. This morning, our Seth Doane introduces us to a man for whom joy is just part of the job. […]
The New Headspace HQ Is The Happiest Office In The World
by Eleanor Halls: I magine an office in which health and happiness are at the core of everyday life. […]
Ken Wilber: What is the meaning of life?
by Ken Wilber: There are so many different ways to answer that, and of course there are so many different answers that have been given over the decades, centuries, and millennia. It’s probably the ultimate [...]
Roshi Joan Halifax Finding A Mission In Life
The Legacy of Wisdom, a non-profit project dedicated to developing a vision of best practices for living, asks Roshi Joan Halifax, […]
Pema Chödrön The Breath Of Compassion
by Tami Simon: When many people are first introduced to tonglen, a Tibetan Buddhist practice for generating compassion, they find the technique […]
Buddhism And Psychedelics
by Stephen Batchelor: It is undeniable that a significant proportion of those drawn to Buddhism and other Eastern traditions in the 1960s… […]
It! It! It!
Eeek! Eeek! Eeek! the bird cried. It! It! It! And the world as Peter Coyote had experienced it ended. […]
What Is The Unconscious In Buddhism?
by Bill Scheffel: Examining the Buddhist view of the unconscious we might first look at our most prevalent contemporary notions of this term… […]