In the spirit of the holidays, six Buddhist teachers share why generosity is the starting place of all the virtues.
You have enlightened nature, says Pema Khandro Rinpoche. If you truly know that, you’ll always be kind to yourself.
Each Friday, we share three topical longreads in our Weekend Reader newsletter. This week, Lion’s Roar magazine’s editorial assistant Hal Atwood explores the real meaning of kindness.
In any presentation of the paramitas, dana, or generosity, always comes first — Nikki Mirghafori explains why.
In the second of a three-part series of conversations, Lion’s Roar Associate Editor Pamela Ayo Yetunde talks to Sister Clear Grace about the practice of “laying it down,” and the Traveling Nunk’s continued journey. In the introduction to the first conversation, I wondered whether Sister Clear Grace would find sustaining generosity for this mission from […]
When Hilary Smith moved to an off-the-grid plot of land in Hawaii, a generous neighbor made a challenging place feel like home.
Author and teacher Janice Lynne Lundy explains how a simple question helps her to keep her heart open – to others, and to herself.
After a lifetime of trauma, Karen Connelly’s client sees the miracle of simple human goodness.
The road to happiness, says Sharon Salzberg, is paved with kindness.
There is no greater gift than to be grateful for our lives, says the late Zen teacher Blanche Hartman, and gratitude leads naturally to generosity, because we want to share this gift with others.
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