It is with great sadness that we report the death of our dear friend and colleague Cindy Littlefair on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. Cindy was known to many members of the Lion’s Roar community and our partners as the creator of our annual fund-raising auction. She was...
‘The Buddha’s presence is not confined to moments of deep meditation or profound insight; it is alive in the ordinary and the mundane, in the very fabric of our daily lives.’ Everyday Buddhism
In an historic ceremony held on April 11, the City of New York officially co-named a stretch of West 109th Street between Riverside Drive and Broadway as “Thich Nhat Hanh Way” in honor the late Vietnamese Zen teacher and his enduring legacy in the fields of...
As The Intercept, The New York Times, and other outlets are reporting, Mohsen Mahdawi — a student activist who has been critical of Israel’s actions in Gaza, and is the former president of Columbia University’s Buddhist Association — was detained by immigration...
On the eightfold path, right thought, right speech, and right action all go together and cannot be separated from each other. The most important is right thought, because—as Buddhism teaches—everything starts from thought. A passage in the Dhammapada phrases it this...
‘It’s astonishing how repetitive thoughts are. Sit quietly, and you will start to see it — the same worries, cravings, resentments looping over and over. This is not a failure of meditation; it’s the mind revealing itself.’ Everyday Buddhism
‘When faced with the forces of distraction and delusion — personified in Buddhism as Mara — he didn’t try to push them away or conquer them. He simply said, ‘I know you, Mara.’ Recognition was enough to loosen their grip.’ Everyday Buddhism
‘There is something urging you to look deeper, something which seeks to be known. Don’t you see it yet?’ Harada Tangen Roshi
When I watched Outie Mark try to convince Innie Mark to give up his life so he could be reunited with his wife, I couldn’t help but wonder how different Mark Scout’s life would be if he understood the dharma. In fact, I often think about that when watching Severance,...
‘If one really practises, one will hear the Buddha-Dhamma whether sitting at the root of a tree, lying down or in whatever posture. This is not something to merely think about. It arises from the pure mind.’ Ajahn Chah