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Back to SearchTen Questions for Dr. Robert Thurman (Part 1) #50
Episode 50
Buddhist scholar Dr. Robert Thurman answers 10 profound questions: What is the nature of time? What is enlightenment? Why is there no evidence for "n…
5 years, 1 month ago
Dr. Rick Hanson's Five Breaths Meditation
Episode 49
Dr. Rick Hanson, best-selling author of Buddha’s Brain and Neurodharma, shares his "Five Breaths" neuroscience-based guided meditation.
Dr. Rick Hanso…
5 years, 1 month ago
Dr. Rick Hanson, Author of Neurodharma and Buddha’s Brain #48
Episode 48
Dr. Rick Hanson, best-selling author of Buddha’s Brain, Hardwiring Happiness, and Neurodharma, shares insights from neuroscience on how to grow our e…
5 years, 2 months ago
Beginning the New Year with a Purification Meditation #47
Episode 47
Our first episode of 2021 is a guided meditation on "purification": a healthy way to let go of regrets from the last year and make a realistic path t…
5 years, 2 months ago
Dr. Jay Garfield on Healthy Realities #46
Episode 46
In this deep and fascinating interview with Dr. Jay Garfield on the connection between compassion and emptiness, he shows how, when we realize our in…
5 years, 2 months ago
Meditation on Gratitude, Dedication, and Determination #45
Episode 45
From the Buddhist, as well as the psychological and scientific perspectives, gratitude and dedication aren’t just polite bookends. The process of fee…
5 years, 2 months ago
Secular Guided Meditation on the Buddhist Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Lamrim) #44
Episode 44
We’ve spent the better part of a year going step-by-step through a modern secular version of the major topics from Tibetan Buddhism’s Stages of the P…
5 years, 3 months ago
Guided Meditation: The Interdependent Self #43
Episode 43
Who am I? From the Buddhist perspective, there’s a systematic way of asking this question of who you are in the form of a meditation on the ultimate …
5 years, 3 months ago
Who Am I? #42
Episode 42
Are you your body? Are you your mind? Are you a collection of thoughts, memories, and neural connections that could be uploaded into a computer to li…
5 years, 4 months ago
Geshe Tenzin Namdak on the Mind, Disturbing Emotions, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality #41
Episode 41
"Buddhism is not meant to make people Buddhist … but to generate happy minds." Western Tibetan Buddhist master Geshe Tenzin Namdak on the mind, distu…
5 years, 4 months ago