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Why Your (Real) Happiness Benefits Others
Episode 114
Real happiness is unconditional, and is achieved by releasing our suffering. Even though things are rarely how we would like them to be - within, or …
6 years, 10 months ago
Clarification: It's Okay to Use Multiple Types of Meditation
Episode 113
In my enthusiastic endorsement of shikantaza or, "just sitting," I may have given the impression I think a real Zen student would only sit shikantaza…
6 years, 10 months ago
2019-09-11 Off-Week Announcement about SFZC Talk
So sorry... no time to produce a new episode for you this week, but there's still something for you to listen to! I'll be giving the Dharma Talk at S…
6 years, 11 months ago
Dogen's "Four Ways Bodhisattvas Embrace Living Beings" - Part 3 – Loving Words
Episode 112
I continue study of 13th-century Zen master Dogen's essay, Bodaisatta Shishobo, "Four Ways Bodhisattvas Embrace Living Beings." In Episode 105 I gave…
6 years, 11 months ago
You Can't Hold on to Stillness: Practice in Activity
Episode 111
If we're lucky, our practices of meditation and mindfulness give us some sense of spaciousness, stillness, and silence. What about when we engage in …
6 years, 11 months ago
How Understanding Impermanence Can Lead to Great Appreciation
Episode 110
We do not have retreat from appreciation of conditional or material things in order to live an enlightened life. However, we must diligently turn the…
7 years ago
What Does Buddhism Have to Say About Mass Shootings?
Episode 109
Of course, traditional Buddhism doesn't say anything about mass shootings per se, but it does present teachings on human nature, behavior, and choice…
7 years ago
Buddha's Teachings 14: The Five Skandhas as Focus for the Practice of Not-Self (Anatta)
Episode 108
The "Five Skandhas," or aggregates, are the five aspects of a human being: Form, the body; Feelings, our positive, negative, or neutral reactions to …
7 years ago
Finding and Enacting Our Best Response to the World's Suffering
Episode 107
Buddhism includes values of Right Action and Right Livelihood, generosity, goodwill, and compassion, and Mahayana Buddhists vow to free all beings fr…
7 years, 1 month ago
Dogen's Shishobo: The Four Ways Bodhisattvas Embrace Living Beings – Part 2
Episode 106
In the last episode I introduced an essay by Zen master Dogen called Bodaisatta-Shishobo, or the Four Ways Bodhisattvas Embrace Living Beings. I brie…
7 years, 1 month ago