En esta segunda parte de su serie sobre el tantra, Mingyur Rinpoche explica cómo la práctica de la visualización nos ayuda a reconocer nuestra naturaleza búdica. En la tradición Vajrayana, el buda Tara es conocido como la Madre de la Liberación. White Tara es una de las representaciones más queridas de ella. Foto de Mandalas.life Imagínese esto: ¿Qué pasa […]
In a recent solo exhibition at The Other Space gallery in McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala, India, minutes from the residence of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tibetan artist Tenzin Gyurmey delivered a complex and layered body of work that wove together Indian and Tibetan exile culture, taboos, forbidden activities, proverbs, and spiritual iconography. Titled Behind the Two Mountains, the show featured imagery […]
It’s an expression of oneness — with the Buddha, with the sangha, with the cosmos itself. Mark Unno teaches you how to let go into the flow of chanting. Illustrations by Carole Hénaff. As long as Buddhism has existed, chanting has been one of its core practices. Originally, both recitation and chanting were used as ways to help memorize teachings, […]
Karla Jackson-Brewer, senior teacher with the Tara Mandala Buddhist Retreat Center, talks with Pamela Ayo Yetunde about internalized racism and how to heal it. The post The Lion’s Roar Podcast: Medicine for Internalized Racism with Karla Jackson-Brewer appeared first on Lions Roar. Source link
Boggle, the internet giant, today announced the latest advance in its joint partnership with the World Trade Forum to harness the miracle of AI to eliminate human error by eliminating human jobs. At a conference attended by thousands of tech entrepreneurs, Anna Norma Sego, Boggle’s VP for AI development, unveiled RoboGuru, a robot that allows users to design their own […]
This is the story of Yasodhara, the woman who was married to the one who became the Buddha. Yasodhara is not the focus of most early Buddhist texts. The literature preserves fragments of her life, but the focus is (unsurprisingly) usually on her husband. The literature is genuinely scant where she is concerned—particularly regarding her youth. She is a key […]
Driving doesn’t have to be stressful. Roberval Oliveira offers mindfulness tips for cruise control, road rage, and more. Photo by Aerial Perspective Works via iStock.com. One day, while driving, I noticed that I was lost in thought. As I brought my attention back to driving, I was reminded of meditation. On the road, like on the cushion, I can try […]
Bonnie Nadzam reviews new books that can help us navigate the ups and downs of life—from personal grief to collective rage to the joy of creativity. Chenxing Han, author of widely acclaimed Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists, gives us a gorgeous, deeply sensory, and multilingual memoir of life and loss in One Long Listening: A […]
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong profiles the inspiring feminist-Buddhist artist Michela Martello—her life, her work, and the dream that put her on the spiritual path. Photo by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis Michela Martello’s bright green house announces its presence among the staid brownstones of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. It announces that an artist lives here. She answers the door a little […]
Koun Franz on seeing what’s in front of you, even the things you’d rather not see. Photo by Amanda Dalbjorn. The “right” in “right view” makes it sound—to me, at least—as if it involves a kind of seeing that’s special, with eyes that are somehow imbued with wisdom or colored by boundless compassion. But that’s a fantasy of something in […]
