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Back to SearchSeeing Our Teachers as Ordinary Human Beings
Episode 970
Vidyadaka talks about his spiritual teachers as offering the Dharma in an ordinary, straightforward way.
Spiritual friendship is not an added-on par…
4 years, 5 months ago
Building Spiritual Power Together
Episode 969
Viveka concludes this Anapanasati Sutta: Instructions for Awakening retreat with a final exploration of the wisdom tetrad, focusing on the experience…
4 years, 5 months ago
Starting to See Through
Episode 968
Dhammarati illuminating the process of conditionality that is put in motion when engaged in Anapanasati meditation. Here he is introducing the fourth…
4 years, 5 months ago
Ancestral Sense of Being
Episode 967
Dhivan, author of 'This Being, That Becomes', talks about some of the historical Buddha's ideas on how conscious awareness can influence unconscious …
4 years, 5 months ago
A Weak Spot in Reality
Episode 966
Maitreyabandhu reminds us that the Buddha was cautious to describe things that were best directly experienced. The Lakshanas are not a metaphysical d…
4 years, 6 months ago
Being in Connection with Other Beings
Episode 965
Parami touches on aspects of Sangharakshita's 'system of meditation', and most specifically the area of positive emotion. Parami is an ideal guide fo…
4 years, 6 months ago
Why the Buddha Taught Impermanence
Episode 964
All conditioned things are impermanent... Not just a truism, but the central teaching of Buddhism upon which so much else follows. Jnanaketu starts o…
4 years, 6 months ago
There’s Nothing About Us That is Fixed
Episode 963
Silanatha reveals our collective blind spot of applying our awareness of change in the external world with change our inner experience.
From the tal…
4 years, 6 months ago
There Really Isn’t a Me
Episode 962
Locana offers an excellent introduction to the most subtle and complex part of the Buddha's teaching on impermanence: that all things in conditioned …
4 years, 6 months ago
The Three Liberations
Episode 961
Sangharakshita describes the three liberations (vimokshas) arising from transcending the three marks (lakshanas) of conditioned existence.
From the …
4 years, 6 months ago