Lewis Richmond

Lewis Richmond is a Buddhist priest, meditation teacher, and a transmitted disciple of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. He is the author of five books, including the award-winning Aging as a Spiritual Practice: A Contemplative Guide to Growing Older and Wiser, and his essays have appeared in Tricycle, Buddhadharma, Turning Wheel, and Lion’s Roar. He teaches the Tricycle online course Aging as a Spiritual Practice and currently writes a weekly column for The Good Men Project.
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Teachings Death & Dying

Aging Is Reality

Although I studied Buddhism as a young man, it wasn’t until I reached the later years of my life that I truly understood the Buddha’s first encounters with old age, sickness, and death. 

By Lewis Richmond

IdeasMagazine | Feature

Enlightenment Needs a Minyan

I want to explore the possibility, within Buddhism, of enlightenment as a collective as well as an individual process, nurtured by a practice of public truth-telling in a community of spiritual equals. The seeds of this…

By Lewis Richmond

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