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.

SHAMBHALA PUBLICATIONS Celebrates 50 YEARS • INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER SINCE 1969

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40 More Years of Benefit

Will We Open the Door or Close It? • There’s a powerful force for change in America, says Christian leader SERENE JONES, but powerful forces oppose it. It’s a battle that is as much spiritual as political.

Time to Say Goodbye • Leaving a relationship may seem like an escape or failure, but TRUDY GOODMAN says it can be the best choice for everyone.

Silencing Your Inner Critic • LILLY GREENBLATT explores why we shouldn’t believe the little voice that tells us we’re not enough.

How to Make a Spectacular Mistake • You’re going to make one anyway, says ANITA FENG. So why not go big? You might end up with something more beautiful than perfection.

Is Buddhism Helping You Keep Up Hope?

Was There a Fifth Noble Truth? • RICHARD SALOMON offers a taste of the Gandharan Manuscripts. Do these recovered texts upend what we know about the dharma?

Chanting • 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.

BEGINNER’S MIND

Sensei Dorothy Dai-En Friedman

Power & Heart • Black and Buddhist in America

Zen Is All of Life Remembering Roshi Bernie Glassman • Bernie Glassman broke open our idea of what Buddhism could be, says ANDREA MILLER. He fed the hungry, cared for the sick, and bore witness to the world’s pain.

EVERYTHING’S MADE OF MIND • All that we are and experience is mind, explains Zen teacher NORMAN FISCHER. That mind is original enlightenment itself.

WHAT MIND IS MADE OF • To transform your mind, you need to understand how it works. GAYLON FERGUSON breaks down the different components of consciousness and how they create your outer and inner world.

HOW MEDITATION WORKS (IN MY LIFE, ANYWAY) • Practice along with Buddhist teacher KATE LILA WHEELER on her journey to becoming “a tender, flawed, slightly braver human being.”

Right Swiping • LINDSAY KYTE on the dharma of online dating

What’s the Message?

Let’s Just Call It Love

Heal the Wounds and Trauma

You Already Have What You’re Looking For

Tools to Wake Up and Grow Up

Meet the Blue Dragon

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