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Back to SearchSteps Along the Path: The Four Stages of Progress
Season 3 Episode 21
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Stream-entry, once returning, non-returning, and arahantship are the traditional four stages of progress along the Buddhist path. Wha…
1 year, 10 months ago
How We Become a Self
Season 3 Episode 20
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The Buddha described humanity as tangled like string, knotted like a ball of thread. This tangle is a result of not seeing clearly t…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Heart Quality Equanimity
Season 3 Episode 19
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Equanimity- Upekkha has an important place in many of the key Buddhist teachings. It's the fourth of the Divine Abodes, the seventh …
1 year, 10 months ago
Letting Go Again: The Unquenchable Thirst
Season 3 Episode 18
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How can we work with our thirst for clinging and identification that seems unquenchable? We will discuss various aspect of letting go…
1 year, 10 months ago
More on Letting Go
Season 3 Episode 17
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We can't let go of letting go so we continue discussion from the prior episode.
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1 year, 11 months ago
Insights into Insight , and a New Platform
Season 3 Episode 16
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What is Insight (Vipassana) practice? Doug and Jon discuss its origins and how it orients our approach to the dharma. They also discu…
1 year, 11 months ago
Is Your Livelihood Right Livelihood?
Season 3 Episode 15
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Right Livelihood is one of the factors of the Buddha's Eightfold Noble Path. Of course, times have changed in the last 2500 years, s…
2 years ago
The Question of Internal, External and Both.
Season 3 Episode 14
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The refrain in the teaching on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness refers to contemplating internally, externally, and internally and…
2 years ago
Freedom and Free Will
Season 3 Episode 13
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What is free will? Do we have free will? What does it mean to be free, and what does this have to do with our ethical and karmic resp…
2 years ago
Truthfulness and Authenticity
Season 3 Episode 12
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Truthfulness is one of the Paramis or perfections of the heart. In this episode we dig into what it means to not only be factually …
2 years, 1 month ago