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    Honoring the Form
    FOR DECADES pilgrims from around the world have flocked to Lake View Cemetery on Capitol Hill in Seattle. Tens of thousands arrive every year to pay their respects to Bruce Lee, an international celebrity from Hong Kong, whom Time magazine listed as
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    Morality
    Our world is in a moral emergency affecting our social, personal, and spiritual well-being. Every day, our hearts break from what we see and endure. Fortunately, a new morality is emerging in response, catalyzing social, cultural, and political chang
    Lion's Roar5 min readGender Studies
    Books In Brief
    DR. KAMILAH MAJIED’S Joyfully Just: Black Wisdom and Buddhist Insights for Liberated Living (Sounds True) invites us to exercise playful curiosity. The book’s expansive embrace of contemplative practices supports wellness and justice for people from
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    Hands Of Compassion
    IN THE FAMILY OF CARE and concern, sympathy, empathy, and compassion are kin. Like relatives, these virtues may grow alongside each other, offering their unique perspectives on and responses to the human condition. While the three attributes are conn
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    Truthfulness
    I grew up hearing about the need for truth, I justice, equity, and peace. I’m a middle-aged daughter of human rights activists who put their lives on the line upholding their values. They were incarcerated for registering Black people to vote in the
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    Lion’s Roar
    MELVIN MCLEOD Editor-in-Chief ANDREA MILLER Editor NOEL ALUMIT Associate Editor MARIANA RESTREPO Associate Editor MIHIRI TILLAKARATNE Associate Editor PAMELA AYO YETUNDE Associate Editor MARIANNE WARD Proofreader MEGUMI YOSHIDA Art Director ANDREW GL
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    Good Food
    What drew you to Buddhist practice? Daily sitting practice helped me feel more connected to something greater than myself. In 2005, I spent a week at Deer Park, Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastery in Escondido, California. The woman who is now my wife and I
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    Generosity
    The path of wisdom and compassion begins with the discovery of our basic goodness. Basic goodness is not just a theory or idea to believe in; it is a direct experience of warmth and clarity. This spiritual realization has many practical implications
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    More From Lion’s Roar
    COURSES | EVENTS | PARTNERSHIPS | NEWS The Lion’s Roar Foundation is an independent non-profit, guided by our mission to bring the benefit of Buddhist wisdom to all, and by the counsel of our board of directors: community leaders, teachers, and media
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    Just So
    What we all need is to learn tolive without walls. We have to let the illusion ofseparation fall away and replaceit with active, lively engagementof every aspect of our lives. This is not just for personalgrowth, but collective growth.This is not int
    Lion's Roar4 min read
    Deity Practice
    WISDOM BEINGS HELP US reconnect with our innate dignity, wisdom, and freedom. We engage these enlightened energies—or they engage us—when we’re ready to be challenged and supported in our commitment to realize the fullness of our gifts, the goodness
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    Determination
    I’m deeply moved by the image the great poet Shantideva gives of the courageous bodhisattva who glides down into the sufferings of samsara “as swans sweep down upon a lotus lake.” As he described it, there’s such joy and ease in the bodhisattva’s det
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    The Race Koan
    WHO NEEDS THE Negro? What does the Negro want? I grew up hearing these types of questions. I don’t recall my parents losing sleep over them; they were busy placing food on the table so that I could eat. Black intellectuals have always wrestled with t
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    The Black Onyx In The Triple Gem
    I AM SO EXCITED about this issue that it’s impossible to be still, even after years of practice! Nevertheless, I will joyfully reflect on the ebony jewel box of an issue that you have just received. In 2014, while earning my doctorate in pastoral cou
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    Renunciation
    Renunciation, the third parami, is often spoken of or looked upon as harsh and restrictive. Whenever we are in some difficulty where we need support, harshness and restrictiveness don’t resonate. But what we should know is that renunciation actually
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    The Revolution Begins With The Self
    INTERSECTIONAL Black activists have been part of and at the forefront of many liberation movements. From Black Lives Matter to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Black activism has addressed issues such as Black mental he
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    Trace the Buddha’s Path
    Buddhism is an integral part of India’s spiritual heritage. India is the birthplace of the Buddha, and most of the important events in the Buddha’s life took place in the present-day northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which borders Nepal. In the
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    OPEN HEART, WISE HEART The Life & Teachings of Ruth King
    AS A BLACK WOMAN born and raised in these United States, I have spent much of my life not just angry, but rageful. It’s the kind of rage that finds me gritting my teeth until my jaw aches even as everything around me seems perfectly safe and serene.
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    True Liberation Black & Buddhist in America
    PAMELA AYO YETUNDE: How do you understand the particularities of Black people’s suffering in the United States? JEAN MARIE ROBBINS: I understand them as an intentional device to maintain an enslavement mentality, in order for the people on top and in
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    Loving-kindness
    At Vipassana meditation retreats in the early 1970s, when people found out I was a Vietnam combat veteran, many responded with disgust. “How could you do those things,” they asked, “and come to a retreat like this?” They did not understand how recurr
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    Patience
    Shantideva, a Buddhist sage of old, aligned his teachings on patience with one of the most difficult emotions: deep-seated anger. I suspect his teachings on patience came from his own experience of being disrespected in the monastery where he lived.
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    Wisdom
    When I was on a meditation retreat over twenty years ago, people were paired together for an exercise. One person was to ask a question; the other was to listen openly before responding. I was paired with the director of the retreat. Wanting to impre
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    Ten Ways to Find True Happiness
    The paramis or paramitas are qualities that help us develop and reach true happiness, our highest potential. They are often translated as “perfections,” as they are the perfections of character necessary for enlightenment. Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh
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    How To Create A Meditation Space
    I’VE HAD MANY EXPERIENCES that have left me wanting to create meditation spaces for myself and others. I recall, as a child, seeing my grandmother sit in a chair next to a small table with pictures of my dad, aunts, and uncle, along with a bible. In
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    Equanimity
    For some reason, equanimity—the last of the ten paramis—has a bad reputation. I imagine it is because the word “equanimous” brings to mind the image of a cold and unmoving practitioner. Yet it’s actually about peace, not apathy. When I think of equan
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    Effort
    I hear a lot of talk in Buddhist circles about I practice, but very little about attainment. Cultivating viriya improves our chance of success on the eightfold path. Viriya is the lifeblood of the paramitas; it is the quality necessary to actualize t
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    A Thousand Thoughts, A Thousand Pieces
    I REMEMBER BEING EMBARRASSED doing puzzles with my in-laws for the first time. While it took me quite a while to find a piece, they were fast because they were experienced puzzlers. After discovering the satisfaction of working on a thousand piece pu
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    The Four Givings
    WHILE NUMEROUS Buddhist traditions consider the four immeasurables—loving-kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity—an important group of principles and practices, it’s not easy to find consensus on how to apply them. Do we engage in act
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    You Are the Embodiment of Compassion
    THE BODHISATTVA CHENREZIG is the embodiment of primordial compassion that unceasingly manifests to hold and alleviate suffering. This boundless compassion and altruistic intention are innate to each of us, but are veiled to us by our habitual ways of
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    Where Did My Grandfather Go?
    THE MOMENT BUDDHIST GUIDE TO MINDFUL LIVING I ACCEPTED AN INVITATION to sit in my grandfather’s armchair. Big, blue, and like most things in the seventies, the chair was covered in scratchy fabric, but I didn’t care. I was nine, and with my legs fold

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