Rod Meade Sperry | Lion’s Roar

The Buddha described equanimity as an unshakable steadiness of mind and heart that meets life’s inevitable changes without being swept away. When we are equanimous, we are not ruffled by the eight worldly winds: gain and loss, praise and blame, success...

When my Tibetan grandmother died on a winter night in Darjeeling, India, the lamas came to the house and began reading aloud from The Tibetan Book of the Deadto guide her through the bardo, the liminal state between her death and her rebirth. Seated...

1. Loving-Kindness
Susan Kaiser Greenland leads us through metta meditation, showing how simple phrases of goodwill can dissolve fear and open the heart to connection.
Buddhist tradition tells of a time, centuries before the common era, when five hundred monks set out to find a quiet clearing in the forest where they could devote themselves fully to meditation without distraction. The grove they choose, though, was...

Andrea Miller: You are an executive producer of the new documentary Wisdom of Happiness. As you define it, what is happiness?
Richard Gere: We all want to be happy, but we have different definitions of what that is. That’s why we have these conflicts in the world: We have different ideas of how the world should be to make us happy....