Latest Compassion Buddhism Podcast Episodes
Cherishing Each Other: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Father Gregory Boyle
Tara Brach - April 25, 2024 20:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.3K ratingsMany are familiar with the Dali Lama’s words “My religion is kindness.” In this conversation you will sense the gritty and real way that we struggling humans can learn to cherish one another. We talk about the relationship between boundaries and compassion; the unshakeable goodness at our core; ...
Cherishing Each Other: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Father Gregory Boyle
Tara Brach - April 25, 2024 20:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.3K ratingsMany are familiar with the Dali Lama’s words “My religion is kindness.” In this conversation you will sense the gritty and real way that we struggling humans can trust our unshakeable goodness and find a path of loving into healing. We talk about the relationship between boundaries and compassio...
2024-04-24 - Meditation: Awakening through the Inner Body
Tara Brach - April 25, 2024 00:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.3K ratingsWhen we attune to the inner body, we discover a field of energy and aliveness that is the portal to pure presence. This meditation guides our attention to the inner body, opens to the play of sound and invites us to rest in the awake awareness that includes and is the grounds of this living world.
Ep. 238 – Lovingkindness Audiobook Excerpt
Metta Hour with Sharon Salzberg - April 22, 2024 17:19 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 589 ratingsFor episode 238 of the Metta Hour Podcast, we are releasing a special extended excerpt of the brand new Lovingkindness Audiobook, set for release by Shambhala on April 23rd, 2024. This thirty-minute excerpt includes the forward of the book, written and read by Jon Kabat-Zinn, the intro...
Bhante as Mythic Guide
Dharmabytes from free buddhist audio - April 22, 2024 04:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSanghamani reveals her early days on the Buddhist path by sharing a dream she had about ‘going home’ with Bhante Sangharakshita as her guide. From the talk Discipleship, Magic and Myth given at the Triratna Buddhist Order weekend, held at Adhisthana, 2014. *** Subscribe to our Dharmab...
Spiritual Reparenting: Loving Ourselves into Healing (from retreat)
Tara Brach - April 18, 2024 17:42 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.3K ratingsMindfulness and compassion, when brought to our wounded heart, have the capacity to rewire our brain and free our spirit. This talk explores the ways we get trapped in the trance of feeling unworthy and unlovable, and how, with a wise attention, we can profoundly transform our relationship with ...
A Context for Working on Oneself
Dharmabytes from free buddhist audio - April 18, 2024 04:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMahamati talks on actualizing the myth of the Order- symbolised in the 1000 armed Avalokiteshvara. Excerpted from the talk Actualizing the 1000 Armed Avalokiteshvara given on a Triratna Buddhist Order weekend at Padmaloka, 2010. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Po...
Meditation: Inner Refuge of Calm
Tara Brach - April 18, 2024 00:13 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.3K ratingsIn times of stress, it’s crucial that we have pathways to quiet our minds, relax our bodies and rest in a calm, steady presence. This meditation guides us in using the breath, body scan, and a home base of presence to find that inner refuge that can carry us through difficult times.
Being Taken Seriously By My Teacher
Dharmabytes from free buddhist audio - April 15, 2024 04:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsExcerpted from the talk Bhante - Teacher and Friend by Dhammadinna, first in a symposium of talks about Sangharakshita given at the UK and Ireland Area Order weekend at Adhisthana, 2013. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcast...
Exploring the Teachings for Ourselves
Dharmabytes from free buddhist audio - April 11, 2024 04:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAs part of celebrations at Sangha Night to mark the 90th birthday of Sangharakshita, Ratnaghosha gives a personal talk on the influence of Bhante as a teacher. Excerpted from the talk Bhante As Teacher given at Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2015. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: ...
Ep. 237 – Fireside Chat with Jack Kornfield
Metta Hour with Sharon Salzberg - April 10, 2024 11:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 589 ratingsFor episode 237, we are launching the Fireside Chat Series on the Metta Hour. This series features intimate conversations with longtime dharma teachers about the early days of their practice and the most impactful moments with their own teachers. Hosted by IMS Online, the launch of thi...
Shoring Up Our Sense of Self
Dharmabytes from free buddhist audio - April 09, 2024 10:49 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings“All worldly activities are as immaterial as chaff.” So said the Tibetan teacher Tsongkapa. Having explored the Eight Worldly Winds, and their effects upon us; having examined our response and looked at suggestions for ways of working, is there some overarching approach we could adopt? In short...
2024-04-03 - Relating Wisely to our Inner Life: Tara and Lee C Camp
Tara Brach - April 04, 2024 19:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.3K ratingsIn this conversation, recorded for the acclaimed podcast, No Small Endeavor, award winning theologian Lee C. Camp interviews Tara about radically accepting and loving our being, just as we are. The conversation includes an unpacking of the RAIN meditation, and stories of navigating difficulty fr...
We Don't Believe the Evidence
Dharmabytes from free buddhist audio - April 04, 2024 04:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAkashamitra takes a look at one of the most difficult trainings offered in this approach. How can we find an opportunity for growth in that most upsetting situation - when someone we've trusted lets us down? Excerpted from the talk entitled Training the Mind: Learning From Betrayal, the sixth...
Meditation: A Present Heart
Tara Brach - April 04, 2024 00:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.3K ratingsOne translation of mindfulness, in Chinese, is “present heart.” In this guided meditation we begin by awakening through the body and the senses, and then open the attention to the changing flow of experience. The intention is to meet whatever arises with a wakeful and kind presence. It's so he...
A Positive Longing
Dharmabytes from free buddhist audio - April 02, 2024 11:06 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPadmavajra first met Sangharakshita when he was 17 and in this talk he shares some of his own most cherished memories of Bhante, including his experiences of being with him in India when he returned there in the 1970's to found the Order there. Urgyen Sangharakshita - Bhante - who died in 2018,...
An Invitation to Freedom: A conversation between Tara and Connirae Andreas
Tara Brach - March 28, 2024 17:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.3K ratingsConnirae Andreas was one of the first trainers in neurolinguistic programming (NLP), developed and wrote a book on the Core Transformation Process, and more recently, the Wholeness Process. Her new book, The Wholeness Work Essential Guide: Level I—Healing and Awakening is the focus of our conver...
The Conversion of King Pasenadi
Dharmabytes from free buddhist audio - March 28, 2024 04:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDhivan recounts the conversion of King Pasenadi by the Buddha. Excerpted from the talk A Courtesan, a Killer and a King given at Bristol Buddhist Centre, 2016 *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration thr...
Meditation: Widening Rings of Being
Tara Brach - March 28, 2024 00:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.3K ratingsIf we can recognize thoughts as thoughts, it becomes possible to open from virtual to living reality. This meditation guides us in awakening the senses and discovering the freedom, the awake space of Being, that is beyond the confines of thoughts.
Ep. 236 – Sameet Kumar
Metta Hour with Sharon Salzberg - March 26, 2024 14:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 589 ratingsFor episode 236, Sharon is in conversation with Sameet Kumar, Ph.D. Sameet is the clinical psychologist for the Memorial Cancer Institute. Sameet specializes in working with cancer patients and their caregivers. He is the author of Grieving Mindfully, The Mindful Path Through Worry and...
Lesser and Greater Happiness
Dharmabytes from free buddhist audio - March 25, 2024 04:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSaraha draws out examples of the Buddha’s wisdom from the Pali Canon highlighting how pleasure and bliss are not obstacles to the spiritual path, craving and attachment is the problem leading to suffering.. Excerpted from the talk entitled Wisdom In the Pali Canon given at Padmaloka Retrea...
2024-03-20 - Do you feel Overwhelmed? Turning Stress into a Gateway of Awakening
Tara Brach - March 21, 2024 18:44 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.3K ratingsStress and overwhelm are spiking around the globe. This talk explores how we can practice with the arising of stress in ways that calm our body and tap our capacity for full presence, wisdom and love.
The Buddha’s Instant Response
Dharmabytes from free buddhist audio - March 21, 2024 04:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe Buddha and Ananda once tended a sick monk, neglected by his companions because of his 'uselessness'. Sangharakshita shows that people cannot be treated as 'things' in the spiritual community. From the talk A Case of Dysentry given in 1982 as part of the series Incidents from the Pa...
Meditation: Openhearted Presence
Tara Brach - March 21, 2024 00:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.3K ratingsThis meditation guides us in embodying loving presence through a body scan, and then meeting whatever arises with a tender heart. “Resting in the awareness that includes this changing life, regarding the changing waves with care, moment-to-moment. The moments of waking up out of thought are ac...
An Unfamiliar Landscape
Dharmabytes from free buddhist audio - March 18, 2024 04:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMahamani shares some experiences around guilt, faith, losing the way and finding it. From the personal talk entitled The Way to the Top of the Hill from ‘The Way to the Beyond’ Womens AOWE held at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2021. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podca...
Navigating the Dark Ages
Tara Brach - March 14, 2024 18:11 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.3K ratingsHow do we process and respond to increasing societal oppression and violence? What helps us transform the energies of fear, hatred and delusion? This talk offers ways we can draw on our spiritual path to steady our heart and engage with presence, wisdom and care.
Friend to Friend
Dharmabytes from free buddhist audio - March 14, 2024 04:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsRatnaprabha tells the story of Meghiya, his frustrating attempt to meditate, and the advice the Buddha gives him on the necessity of mentorship, or kalyana mitrata. From the talk Meghiya, Meditation and Mentorship given at West London Buddhist Centre, 2017. *** Subscribe to our Dharmab...
Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention
Tara Brach - March 14, 2024 00:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.3K ratingsThis meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, and invites a receptive and caring presence, as we open our attention to the changing flow of life. "Our freedom comes not from what is happening, but from how we are relating to it. See if you can relate...
Ep. 235 – Suneel Gupta
Metta Hour with Sharon Salzberg - March 11, 2024 16:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 589 ratingsFor episode 235, Sharon speaks with Suneel Gupta. Suneel is a bestselling author, renowned speaker, Harvard Medical School visiting scholar, and host of a global documentary series. He studies leaders around the world to discover and share simple, actionable habits that lift our perfor...
Longing to Illuminate Truth
Dharmabytes from free buddhist audio - March 11, 2024 05:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsVishangka explores the joys and challenges that arise in a spiritual community. He explores several suttas and what we can learn from them. Excerpted from the talk Blending like Milk and Water: Sangha In the Buddha's Time given at Manchester Buddhist Centre, 2019. *** Subscribe to our D...
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