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Back to SearchEpisode 132: Eight Everyday Preoccupations
[This episode originally aired on August 1, 2023] The eight everyday preoccupations are eight ways we occupy our minds in order to avoid experiencing…
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Episode 131: Genuine Effort
[This episode originally aired on July 25, 2023] Effort plays a very important part on the Buddhist path; it’s one of the three main components of d…
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Episode 130: Two Kinds of Bypassing
[This episode originally aired on July 18, 2023] Someone recently asked me, “Am I spiritually bypassing?” • I took that term to mean using one’s pr…
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Episode 129: Lighthearted Practice
[This episode originally aired on July 11, 2023] Today I’d like to explore the problem of becoming an adult • the world of children is filled wit…
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Episode 128: Simple Compassion
[This episode originally aired on July 4, 2023] The word “compassion” can seem so overwhelming in the face of all the suffering in the world that it…
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Episode 127: Beginning and Ending with Kindness
[This episode originally aired on June 27, 2023] The attitude that’s encouraged whenever we embark on a spiritual journey is not to approach it simpl…
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Episode 126: Settling and Looking
[This episode originally aired on June 20, 2023] We are all familiar with meditation as a way to tame and quiet the mind • another important aspec…
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Episode 125: Loneliness
[This episode originally aired on June 13, 2023] The feeling of loneliness, which is familiar to many of us, can be a very vulnerable and slightly th…
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Episode 124: Hub, Spokes, Rim
[This episode originally aired on June 6, 2023] There are many ways to look at the connection between spirituality and our everyday lives • in th…
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Episode 123: Nobility
[This episode originally aired on May 30, 2023] When the Buddha spoke of being “a son or daughter of noble family,” what was he referring to? • in…
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