Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchUncertainty as Positive Emotion
Episode 879
A Tibetan Story shared by Vessantara about a young boy and his family and the uncertainty of the course of our lives.
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5 years, 3 months ago
Self-Transformation Through Parenting
Episode 878
What if our children are seen as aspects of our mind – this moment greed, this moment hatred. The Buddha advises us to ‘be with’ whatever arises, jus…
5 years, 4 months ago
Beyond Ordinary Mind
Episode 877
Nagapriya talks via zoom on Buddhist practice as a path towards the transcendence of our egocentric tendencies and motivations, which are the cause o…
5 years, 4 months ago
Mind is Not the Enemy
Episode 876
Nagabodhi explores a common misconception about how we’re supposed to stop all thought in meditation. Thought more generally can be very useful and c…
5 years, 4 months ago
Nourishment and Encouragement
Episode 875
In the Dhaniya Sutta, the questions arise: ‘how do we move in this world with a freedom to be creative?’ and ‘how often do we follow the addictive te…
5 years, 4 months ago
Embracing Darkness: Embracing Love
Episode 874
Saddhaloka reflects on the first Buddhist book he read, The Way of the White Clouds, by Lama Govinda, sharing a verse to Amitabha, the red Buddha of …
5 years, 4 months ago
Faith in the Path of Liberation
Episode 873
Padmasambhava is a potent symbol of transformation. Here, as part of a Padmasambhava Day Festival, Maitreyi shows us how evoke the help, energy and v…
5 years, 4 months ago
There’s A Lot of Potential Within Us
Episode 872
Kamalashila takes us into the world of the Abhidharma to investigate how positive mind states emerge. He describes the types of Shraddha (confidence,…
5 years, 4 months ago
Where Does the Spiritual Path Begin?
Episode 871
Practising Buddhism (so much harder than understanding it) involves breaking the chain of the twelve negative links, or nidanas, by moving onto the s…
5 years, 4 months ago
What is Truly Beautiful
Episode 870
Punyamala describes the path of beauty and how we can move from contemplating mundane beauty to the beauty of the enlightened state and in so doing s…
5 years, 5 months ago