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Refraining from Anger
Episode 1095
More counter-cultural stuff here, shouldn't we always express how we feel? Shantideva seems to be saying something else when he encourages us to be '…
3 years, 3 months ago
One Moment of Anger
Episode 1094
The Bodhicaryavatara is an 8th century text written by Shantideva, a Buddhist monk from the monastic 'university' at Nalanda, India. Dhammadinna off…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Essence of Bodhicitta
Episode 1093
Padmavajra shares a story of meeting on the basis of Bodhicitta arising between people. He tells us how Shantideva takes to heart, ever more firmly,…
3 years, 4 months ago
Training in Patience
Episode 1092
Khemasuri describes how a person can develop patience, translated from ksanti, drawing on verses from Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara. Excerpted from th…
3 years, 4 months ago
A Fundamentally Flawed Strategy
Episode 1091
Adverse situations of our day to day lives can provide us with opportunities to transform. Pradaya explores the Seven Point Mind Training teaching of…
3 years, 4 months ago
Dharmas Are Dreamlike
Episode 1090
Society is complicated and we have all sorts of stories about that. Satyajyoti explores how our ideas and our stories create their own realities. Wh…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Arising of Bodhicitta
Episode 1089
The Enlightenment of the Buddha was an irreversible breakthrough into a new kind of consciousness for the world. All our practice flows from this end…
3 years, 4 months ago
This Human Situation
Episode 1088
Samantabhadri explores what it was like to meet the Buddha, the fully Enlightened human being. She then discusses 'garava' as devotion for the whole…
3 years, 4 months ago
Wisdom Comes Through Silence
Episode 1087
The final talk in Padmavajra's wonderful series on the Dhammapada, the most popular of early Buddhist texts. All of the Buddha's core teachings are …
3 years, 4 months ago
A Doorway Between Poles of Experience
Episode 1086
Bhadra shares how emptiness and conditionality combine to fuel bodhicitta and create the foundations of Sangha.
From the talk Absolute and Conventio…
3 years, 4 months ago