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Guided Tonglen Meditation: Exchanging Yourself with Others #30

Episode 30

Tonglen is a meditation practice that combines meditating on loving-kindness with meditating on compassion to release our own pain, suffering, and lo…

5 years, 6 months ago

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Guided Compassion Meditation #29

Episode 29

A 15-minute guided meditation on compassion: the wish to take away others’ suffering.

Episode 29. Guided Compassion Meditation

If you’d like to practic…

5 years, 7 months ago

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What Is Compassion? #28

Episode 28

Compassion is starting to rival mindfulness as the next most popular up-and-coming form of secular meditation. But what is compassion? Compassion, fr…

5 years, 7 months ago

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Khen Rinpoche Geshe Tashi Tsering on Karma, Analytical Meditation, and Mindfulness #27

Episode 27

Khen Rinpoche Geshe Tashi Tsering shares his profound insights on a secular understanding of karma, the importance of analytical meditation, and a wa…

5 years, 7 months ago

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Guided Meditation on Love #26

Episode 26

A guided meditation on love, or loving-kindness, the expansive form of love wishing happiness not only to friends and family but to all beings everyw…

5 years, 7 months ago

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What Is Love? #25

Episode 25

Love is complex in our culture, tied up with finding a single person to satisfy our huge list of needs and dreams who we then grant the exclusive gif…

5 years, 8 months ago

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The Dalai Lama’s “Simple Meditation” #24

Episode 24

On Ten Percent Happier a few weeks ago, The Dalai Lama described to Dan Harris a “simple meditation” for these times. This guided meditation is an in…

5 years, 8 months ago

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Guided Meditation: Transforming Bias with Equanimity #23

Episode 23

The Buddhist meditation on equanimity teaches a technique to eliminate bias and expand our love and concern from family and friends to strangers and …

5 years, 8 months ago

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Spiritual Democracy #22

Episode 22

In everyday life we’re torn between fierce attachment to our loved ones and anger at those that give us trouble. But Buddhism, democracy, and social …

5 years, 8 months ago

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Interview: Venerable Robina Courtin — Buddha's Science of Mind #21

Episode 21

Venerable Robina Courtin, Buddhist nun and advocate for prisoner’s rights, on how activists can leverage meditation and mind training, how Buddhism f…

5 years, 9 months ago

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