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Back to SearchKim Stanley Robinson and Robert Thurman: Climate, Politics, and the Dalai Lama #128
Episode 128
This is a very special episode in which I had the chance to introduce two of my heroes: Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman and science fiction author Ki…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Interdependent Nature of Reality #39 [rebroadcast]
The Buddhist understanding of how things exist, called emptiness, breaks objects down into parts, causes, and a mind that bundles them into the illus…
3 years, 5 months ago
Guided Meditation: Exploring the Texture of the Mind #127
Episode 127
Buddhist teacher Emily Hsu leads an analytical meditation that explores the inner landscape—texture—of the mind and the differences between construct…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Buddhist Understanding of the Mind with Emily Hsu #126
Episode 126
I've known Emily Hsu since she first started teaching Buddhist philosophy and meditation at the Tse Chen Ling Center for Tibetan Buddhism 15 years ag…
3 years, 6 months ago
Meditation on How Things Exist #38 [rebroadcast]
Objects around us ordinarily appear as if they are solid, singular, and separate from us. However, both science and the Buddhist understanding of rea…
3 years, 6 months ago
How Things Exist: Emptiness, Dependent Origination, and your Smartphone #37 [rebroadcast]
The Buddhist view on reality, called emptiness, combines the awe of scientific knowledge with the inner, experiential knowledge that comes from medit…
3 years, 6 months ago
Meditation on Equanimity for Parents and Teens #125
Episode 125
Buddhist counselor Richard Prinz leads an analytical meditation on equanimity to develop compassion, introspection, love, and non-attachment for teen…
3 years, 6 months ago
Parenting Teens with Buddhist Family Counselor Richard Prinz #124
Episode 124
Teenagers face a unique and overwhelming set of problems today, from climate change to social media to isolation induced by the pandemic. Richard Pri…
3 years, 7 months ago
Universalizing our Problems and Pleasures - Guided Meditation #32 [rebroadcast]
A guided meditation on “universalizing,” a Tibetan Buddhist mind training technique for transforming our everyday problems and pleasures through love…
3 years, 7 months ago
Universalizing: Transforming Pain and Pleasure into Love and Compassion #31 [rebroadcast]
One of the most powerful Tibetan Buddhist mind training techniques is universalizing, a practice that transforms everyday pains and pleasures into pr…
3 years, 7 months ago