Mónica Jordan explora cómo relacionarnos con la ira de una manera consciente. imagen via Pixabay. Aunque no me considero una persona que se enoja fácilmente, siempre he tenido mucha curiosidad con respecto a la ira. Cuando era niña, recuerdo haber experimentado un miedo profundo en los momentos caóticos de ira de mi madre. Me sentía impotente y ansiosa, pero reprimía […]
Ezra Bayda, the former teacher at Zen Center of San Diego, and two of his former students have settled a civil lawsuit alleging sexual assault and harassment out of court for an undisclosed amount of money earlier this year, Tricycle has learned. The two women filed the civil lawsuit in San Diego Superior Court in May 2020, court documents show. […]
On this episode of The Lion’s Roar Podcast, Brother Phap Hai talks about the connection between suffering and wisdom. The post The Lion’s Roar Podcast: Wisdom and Suffering with Brother Phap Hai appeared first on Lion's Roar. Source link
Monica Jordan explores how to meet anger with conscious awareness. Image via Pixabay. While I don’t consider myself an angry person, I have always had an open curiosity about anger. As a child, I remember experiencing deep fear in the chaotic moments of my mother’s angry spells. I felt helpless and anxious, but I suppressed these emotions because of my […]
A number of years ago, I was the manager of a thriving Buddhist meditation center in a large urban center. The community was full of sincere, deeply committed practitioners, many of whom had turned to the dharma after experiencing trauma or addiction. I loved the sangha deeply and was committed to serving what had become a refuge for so many. […]
Damcho Diana Finnegan and Dr. Carola Roloff (Bhiksuni Jampa Tsedroen) report on Thursday’s historic ceremony that saw the full ordination of 144 female monastics in Bhutan, establishing a bhikshuni sangha. All photos courtesy of Dongyu Gatsal Ling. Nuns joyfully await their turn to receive their bhikshuni vows. The first ceremony to fully ordain women within Tibetan Buddhism in modern times […]
Lindsay Kyte profiles law professor Rhonda Magee, who teaches mindfulness and other contemplative practices to help us do the inner and outer work of creating racial justice. Photo by Blake Farrington The summer that Rhonda Magee was sixteen, she got a phone call that marked a turning point in her life. Jake, her boyfriend at the time, called to tell […]
Questions around rebirth—from how it works to whether it’s even real—have energized and divided Buddhists for millennia. In this excerpt from his book Rebirth, Roger R. Jackson unpacks the complexity of it all and offers four basic approaches to incorporating it (or not) into our own practice. Photo by Philippe Frangiere. The writings of philosophically inclined scholars of Buddhism published […]
A century ago, Buddhists in Vietnam—and in much of Asia—started rewriting their traditions, and in some cases even their history. Alec Soucy explains how what we think we know of Vietnamese Buddhism points to a much more complex reality. Photo by William J. H. Leonard On the first and fifteenth day of each lunar month in Hanoi, Vietnam, temples teem […]
How does Buddhism make sense of war? In the abstract, the teachings are straightforward. But according to Bhikkhu Bodhi, if we find ourselves supporting those who are fighting back in Ukraine, then we have to ask some hard questions—and maybe accept some uncomfortable truths. Image by S.T., 2021. Oil-based crayon on cover stock, 9 x 11 in. Day after day, […]
