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Season 1 Episode 74
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In this episode, I look at The Four Dharmas of Gampopa, four short sentences I've recited as part of my daily Buddhist practice for m…
9 hours ago
Your Space Shapes Your Mind
Season 1 Episode 73
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How we arrange our outer world can have a surprising effect on our inner state. In this episode, I talk about how creating an environ…
1 week ago
Pacify, Transform, Discover: A Buddhist Guide to Difficult Emotions
Season 1 Episode 72
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How do we work with strong emotions when the world feels frightening, divided, and uncertain? I look at three Buddhist approaches to …
2 weeks ago
Conversation with Samuel Bercholz, founder of Shambhala Publications and my meditation teacher, Part Three
Season 1 Episode 71
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In Part Three of my conversation with my longtime teacher and spiritual friend Sam Bercholz, we talk about the strange and wonderful …
3 weeks ago
Conversation with Samuel Bercholz, founder of Shambhala Publications and my meditation teacher, Part Two
Season 1 Episode 70
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In this episode, I continue my conversation with Sam Bercholz. We talk about bringing the dharma into the modern West without reducin…
4 weeks ago
Conversation with Samuel Bercholz, founder of Shambhala Publications and my meditation teacher, Part One
Season 1 Episode 69
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I talk with my longest time spiritual friend, Samuel Bercholz, founder of Shambhala Publications and author of the new book, Rude Awa…
1 month ago
Three Ways to Work With Heartbreak: Part Three
Season 1 Episode 68
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Heartbreak can make our usual strategies for managing pain useless. It can also show us what is true about being human: everything ch…
1 month, 1 week ago
Three Ways to Work With Heartbreak: Part Two
Season 1 Episode 67
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When heartbreak is overwhelming, the instinct is often to make it stop. But what if the practice is not to fix what we're feeling, bu…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Three Ways to Work With Heartbreak: Part One
Season 1 Episode 66
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Heartbreak is something we have the tendency to want to get rid of as quickly as possible. But some heartbreaks cannot be “fixed” or …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Learning is Remembering: The Outer, Inner, and Secret Teachers
Season 1 Episode 65
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How do we recognize a true teacher? In this episode I talk about the outer teacher, the inner teacher, and the secret teacher. Along …
2 months ago