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Back to SearchPapañca! Exactly What it Sounds Like
Season 3 Episode 7
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If one were to describe a word that illustrates the meaning of onomatopoetic, papañca fits the bill. There are a number of words in Pal…
2 years ago
Let's Talk More About Meditation
Season 3 Episode 6
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In our last few episodes, we've been discussing the Buddha's Noble Eight-Fold Path. The last three factors of the path are about meditati…
2 years ago
Coming Back to the Core: Strategies of Right Effort
Season 3 Episode 5
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Right Effort --one of the factors of the Noble Eightfold Path is an important aspect of the practice of meditation, and the teachings rela…
2 years ago
Impermanence and the Closing of the Rubin Museum
Season 3 Episode 4
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The Rubin is an important institution in New York with a very significant collection and many special exhibitions of Tibetan and Himalayan…
2 years ago
Coming Back to the Core: Knowing Right View
Season 3 Episode 3
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The Eightfold Path, the fourth of the Four Noble Truths, lays out a map to become free from suffering. In our last episode, we explore …
2 years, 1 month ago
Coming Back to the Core: Are we Understanding Our Intentions?
Season 3 Episode 2
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As we continue our wondering through the Noble Truths we discuss aspects of the Fourth Truth the 8-Fold Noble Path with a particular inter…
2 years, 1 month ago
Coming Back to the Core-- The Four Noble Truths (or 3 just now)
Season 3 Episode 1
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The New Year is a good time to return to the core teachings. And it's good to start with the Four Enobling Truths, from which much become…
2 years, 1 month ago
New Year's Episode: Time Present, Time Past, Time Future-- What is Time Anyway?
Season 2 Episode 43
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In this episode for the last day of 2023, we look at concepts of time from a Buddhist perspective in the relative and absolute sense. I…
2 years, 2 months ago
Why Buddhism?
Season 2 Episode 42
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Perhaps this is a perennial question, but it's always worth asking. What's so special about Buddhism and why have we chosen it as a guid…
2 years, 2 months ago
Again and Again. . . Rebirth ... and Death
Season 2 Episode 41
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What is meant by re-birth?? Who is reborn and when? There are a number of interpretations and Doug and Jon explore some of them. More im…
2 years, 2 months ago