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Back to SearchEpisode 39: The River of Love and Compassion
Loving kindness and compassion are two strong currents that run through the entire Buddhist path • they are directly intertwined with the two sides…
4 years, 7 months ago
Episode 38: Awareness, Kindness, Openness
According to the Buddha, all sentient beings have buddhanature or bodhichitta • Trungpa Rinpoche spoke in terms of having “enlightened genes” — we …
4 years, 8 months ago
Episode 37: Meditation and Buddhanature
Meditation is based on the understanding that the deepest nature of human beings—buddhanature—is the capacity to grow and flourish and awaken, to exp…
4 years, 8 months ago
Episode 36: Situations and Choices
The teachings of karma are vast and profound, and they are central to the message of the Buddha • the term “karma” is often oversimplified, dumbed …
4 years, 8 months ago
Episode 35: Spirit of Dharma
The spirit of dharma is more about the process of investigating than it is coming up with the right answers • it’s based on a sense of genuine inte…
4 years, 8 months ago
Episode 34: A Gentle Interruption of Samsara
What is meditation’s role in finding nirvana within samsara? • samsara moves very quickly; confusion arises instantaneously, exploding and expandi…
4 years, 9 months ago
Episode 33: Six Samsaric Realms
Today’s topic is about how our moment-to-moment habits and impulses congeal into solid psychological realities or realms of existence • the wheel o…
4 years, 9 months ago
Episode 32: Enabling Samsara Step by Step
Another section of the wheel of life breaks things down into twelve steps, which illustrate how we perpetuate samsara • the first step is ignorance…
4 years, 9 months ago
Episode 31: Rooster, Snake, Pig
A traditional image in Tibetan Buddhism is called the wheel of life; it pictures our life as a wheel that rolls along, and that we keep pushing along…
4 years, 9 months ago
Episode 30: The Dance of Samsara and Nirvana
Samsara and nirvana are two fundamental concepts that run throughout the Buddhist tradition • Trungpa Rinpoche said it is by discovering the truth …
4 years, 9 months ago