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Episode 960
Here Kulanandi reflects on different qualities of beauty in the spiritual life.
From the talk entitled Beauty and the Dharma Life given at Stockhol…
4 years, 6 months ago
Aspirations Manifesting in Daily Life
Episode 959
Embodying our higher values gives life to our heart and gives heart to our life. Saddhanandi encourages us to get on with our life by gathering our l…
4 years, 6 months ago
The Arising of Samadhi
Episode 958
There’s no true meditation without happiness. Sangharakshita describes Samadhi, often translated as ‘concentration’, as dependent upon the conditions…
4 years, 6 months ago
Shifting States of Being
Episode 957
Here we have Nagesvara discussing samadhi as collectedness, integration of our energies, wholeness, openness, rather than concentration as primary. …
4 years, 7 months ago
A Non-Existing Self
Episode 956
Dhivan talks about some ways in which Buddhists deny the self beginning with how the non-self teaching is presented in the Pali scriptures. From the …
4 years, 7 months ago
Giving Shape to Our Ignorance
Episode 955
Yashobodhi recounts how the earliest Buddhist teachings arose in response to questions presented to the Buddha.
From the talk entitled The Alchemy o…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Ultimate Self Surrender
Episode 954
The mind is intrinsically pure. How do we realize the ever present purity of the mind? Tejananda offers his reflections on Buddha Nature through disc…
4 years, 7 months ago
Hither and Further Shores
Episode 953
Akashadevi expounds on the parable of the raft from the perspective of the hither and further shores.
Excerpted from a talk entitled The Raft given…
4 years, 7 months ago
Let Go, Even of the Dharma
Episode 952
Maitrisiddhi explores the fourth great thunderclap from the Heart Sutra: All Buddhist teachings are simply Relative Truth; the Highest truth cannot b…
4 years, 7 months ago
One Essential Embodied Existence
Episode 951
Bodhidasa explores the essence of what the Buddha said it was that he taught illustrated with a personal example of how the Dharma is based around on…
4 years, 7 months ago