Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
The lion roars when the domain is threatened and communicates with pride. We are at such a moment when our thinking, speaking, and behaviors require an evolutionary elevation. This virtual talk with Larry Ward was given for Naropa Practice Day 2025 to inspire and illuminate how and why we must roar, and the nature of our roar.
Larry Ward, PhD, is the co-founder of The Lotus Institute, a celebrated poet, a senior Dharma teacher in Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village tradition of Engaged Buddhism, and the author of America’s Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal. Dr. Ward holds a PhD in Religious Studies with an emphasis on Buddhism and the neuroscience of meditation. As a teacher, Dr. Ward interweaves insights with personal stories and resounding clarity that express his Dharma name, “True Great Sound.”
The Lotus Institute website: thelotusinstitute.org
Book: parallax.org/product/americas-racial-karma
The lion roars when the domain is threatened and communicates with pride. We are at such a moment when our thinking, speaking, and behaviors require an evolutionary elevation. This virtual talk with Larry Ward was given for Naropa Practice Day 2025 to inspire and illuminate how and why we must roar, and the nature of our roar.
Larry Ward, PhD, is the co-founder of The Lotus Institute, a celebrated poet, a senior Dharma teacher in Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village tradition of Engaged Buddhism, and the author of America’s Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal. Dr. Ward holds a PhD in Religious Studies with an emphasis on Buddhism and the neuroscience of meditation. As a teacher, Dr. Ward interweaves insights with personal stories and resounding clarity that express his Dharma name, “True Great Sound.”
The Lotus Institute website: thelotusinstitute.org
Book: parallax.org/product/americas-racial-karma
