You’re with Us on This Journey

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Writer Ben Moore introduces the January 2022 difficulty of Lion’s Roar.

Photograph by Mario Doblemann.

We don’t should look very far to see damage on this planet. As if the underlying uncertainty, nervousness, and trauma in our personal lives weren’t sufficient, we’re surrounded by numerous examples of struggling on this planet—local weather change, pandemic, struggle, financial insecurity…the record goes on. Life is, certainly, marked by struggling. Going through that reality, fairly than avoiding it, has marked the beginning of the religious journey for millennia. Buddhist teachings and practices supply an method to discovering peace inside ourselves; in addition they encourage us to assist others work with the myriad inner and exterior sources of battle and confusion all of us face.

The core teachings of the dharma wake folks as much as their intrinsic knowledge and goodness.

At Lion’s Roar, our mission, and our each day work, is rooted in that inspiration. Our fast objective is providing the dharma to assist folks relieve the struggling of their lives—in small methods, second to second. Our long-term objective is a minimum of lowering the struggling of the world; taming materialism and ego; and realizing a extra compassionate, harmonious society.

These objectives are usually not modest; the wants of the world are too pressing for us to be timid. The core teachings of the dharma do wake folks as much as their intrinsic knowledge and goodness. We consider this awakening not solely advantages people, it serves to profit all beings. The dharma holds the urgently wanted potential to rework society and our relationship with the world.

Over the course of forty-plus years, Lion’s Roar has grown from a small group e-newsletter to a nonsectarian, nonprofit Buddhist media group reaching a various viewers of Buddhists, mindfulness practitioners, and spiritually conscious folks from throughout North America and world wide.

Lion’s Roar goals to be a bridge-builder for these on the (typically uneven!) path of the dharma; we hope to assist clean, speed up, and lengthen this journey for everybody from the Buddhist curious to the dedicated practitioner. We provide alternatives for connection and ongoing schooling to the various newbies and skilled meditators alike who inform us that they’re “going it alone,” exterior of any formal sangha. For individuals who do apply inside a group, we assist a deepening of apply and a broader expertise of different Buddhist traditions. By bringing Buddhist knowledge to bear on present occasions—and, after all, perennial human issues—our work helps level the best way to a society that prizes common values, comparable to compassion, generosity, knowledge, and peace.

We’re deeply dedicated to doing our half, however we aren’t making change on our personal—we’ve got you to thank. From our very beginnings, readers like you might have been the guts of Lion’s Roar. By means of your subscriptions and donations, you present the important assist we’d like. Greater than ever, we depend on you to assist us talk Buddhist knowledge and practices, and additional the event of Buddhism within the fashionable world.

We’re honored to have your assist in these efforts. Thanks—and please—proceed with us on this journey.

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