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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FINDING SHELTER IN SIMPLICITY • HILARY SMITH had no electricity, no running water, no locks. She had everything she needed.

WHAT TO SAY WHEN SOMEONE DIES • Avoid pat expressions, says VALERIE BROWN. What a grieving person needs is loving presence.

YOU ARE THE NIGHTINGALE • Scientific materialism prevents you from knowing you’re inseparable from the cosmos. A teaching by BROTHER PHAP LINH.

WHAT ADVICE DO YOU HAVE FOR NEW PRACTITIONERS?

THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE ME • ALISA DENNIS on why she honors ancestors—spiritual and biological, human and animal, water and wind.

SITTING WITH YOURSELF • Do you criticize your own meditation practice? RACHEL GOLDSMITH TUROW on how to find freedom from your inner critic.

BOOKS IN BRIEF

Better with Age • You can find more joy and fulfillment as you grow older. Five meditation teachers tell you how.

Older & Wiser • As you age, says JUDY LIEF, you can discover your true nature—timeless and luminous.

How to Make Friends with Your Aging Body • If you have a negative body image, says JENNA HOLLENSTEIN, contemplating the five skandhas can help.

What to Do When It Hurts • The best way to live with pain, says PAMELA AYO YETUNDE, is to take care of it—wisely and unapologetically.

Will You Still Need Me? • In time, says NORMAN FISCHER, we learn the true value of friends, family, and spiritual community.

Death Is Nothing to Fear • As you age, death creeps closer. JOHN TARRANT on how face mortality and truly live.

THE PRESENT TENSE • Poetry, like meditation, isn’t about doing or accomplishing. It’s about feeling what it means to be alive, in this moment. Lion’s Roar’s MARIANA RESTREPO talks with the poet laureate Ada Limón.

the Heart of The Dalai Lama • LILLY GREENBLATT on the life and legacy of one of the most beloved spiritual leaders of our time.

THE DALAI LAMA’S SKILLFUL MEANS • BHIKSHUNI THUBTEN CHODRON on what makes His Holiness such a remarkable Buddhist teacher.

A BEACON OF HOPE • YONGEY MINGYUR RINPOCHE tells us what His Holiness the Dalai Lama means to the Tibetan people.

A LONG LIFE LIVED FOR ALL • Why is the Dalai Lama an inspiration to so many people of such diverse backgrounds? ROSHI JOAN HALIFAX explains.

The Once & Future Dalai Lama • BARRY BOYCE uncovers the surprising, tumultuous history of the Dalai Lamas—and the dangers this lineage faces in the years to come.

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