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Episode 40
Meditating on the interdependent nature of reality, or emptiness, breaks down the illusion of independent, partless, and unchanging objects; instead …
5 years, 4 months ago
The Interdependent Nature of Reality #39
Episode 39
The Buddhist understanding of how things exist breaks objects down into parts, causes, and a mind that bundles them into the illusion of a solid, sin…
5 years, 4 months ago
Guided Meditation: How Things Exist #38
Episode 38
Objects around us ordinarily appear as if they are solid, singular, and separate from us. However, both science and the Buddhist understanding of rea…
5 years, 4 months ago
How Things Exist #37
Episode 37
The Buddhist view on reality, called emptiness, combines the awe of scientific knowledge with the inner, experiential knowledge that comes from medit…
5 years, 5 months ago
Guided Meditation: The Natural Goodness of our Mind — Ven. Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald) #36
Episode 36
A guided meditation by Ven. Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald) on the natural goodness of our mind, or Buddha nature. In this meditation we let go of …
5 years, 5 months ago
Venerable Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald) on The Natural Goodness of our Mind #35
Episode 35
Venerable Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald), renowned author of How to Meditate and fully ordained Tibetan Buddhist nun, talks about the natural good…
5 years, 5 months ago
Sympathetic Joy: Opening Your Heart to the Happiness of Others #34
Episode 34
Sympathetic joy is an easy-to-understand meditation practice that expands our love and compassion by rejoicing in all the good things that others did…
5 years, 5 months ago
Be Willing to Get Woke - Interview with Dr. Jan Willis #33
Episode 33
Dr. Jan Willis, renowned scholar and teacher of Buddhism, talks about race and racism through a Buddhist lens. She shares stories about growing up wi…
5 years, 6 months ago
Guided Meditation: Universalizing our Problems and Pleasures #32
Episode 32
A guided meditation on “universalizing,” a Tibetan Buddhist mind training technique for transforming our everyday problems and pleasures through love…
5 years, 6 months ago
Universalizing: Transforming Pain and Pleasure into Love and Compassion #31
Episode 31
One of the most powerful Tibetan Buddhist mind training techniques is universalizing, a practice that transforms everyday pains and pleasures into pr…
5 years, 6 months ago