Latest Tibetan Buddhism Podcast Episodes
Practicing When Things are Difficult
Wisdom and Compassion - April 18, 2024 00:15 - 23 minutesChallenging times can be the best times to practice. Suffering is compelling, so you might find that resting awareness on your experience is easier than when things are going well. This episode has a longish riff on how to find a teacher and how you know when you've met a true teacher. ...
Guided Meditation: The Stages of Dying (concise)
Wisdom and Compassion - April 18, 2024 00:15 - 14 minutesThis is a brief guided meditation on the stages of dying or 'bardos.' In Buddhism, the term 'bardo' typically refers to the intermediate state between death and rebirth; though it can refer to any transition. The most well-known and elaborated upon teachings on the bardo come from texts...
Holding a View, True or Not
Wisdom and Compassion - April 18, 2024 00:14 - 16 minutesWhy would I experiment of holding a view if I am not sure it's true? This experiment can cause you to learn something beyond your current knowing—through direct experience. No belief is required. Just hold a new view, and see how it impacts your thoughts, speech and actions. If you like...
Common Misconceptions about Tibetan Buddhism
Wisdom and Compassion - April 17, 2024 23:02 - 26 minutesYou know those rumors you heard about Tibetan Buddhism? Listen and see if they are true. Any time we adopt a custom, philosophy or tradition from another culture, we're bound to misinterpret a few things. This talk unravels a few of the veils of misunderstanding surrounding Tibetan Budd...
Common Misperceptions about Tibetan Buddhism
Wisdom and Compassion - April 17, 2024 23:02 - 26 minutesYou know those rumors you heard about Tibetan Buddhism? Listen and see if they are true. Any time we adopt a custom, philosophy or tradition from another culture, we're bound to misinterpret a few things. This talk unravels a few of the veils of misunderstanding surrounding Tibetan Bud...
The Seven Branch Prayer
Wisdom and Compassion - April 17, 2024 22:47 - 25 minutesThe mindful recitation of Seven-Branch Prayer, which is often done inside another practice—like Green Tara, for example— epitomizes all the practices of gathering the accumulations as well as the purification of harmful deeds, thoughts, or speech and also of obscurations. All the major ...
A Short Talk on Love
Rime Buddhist Center Dharma Talks - April 16, 2024 20:09 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsDharma talk given by Daniel Scharpenburg, April 14, 2024. Music by Barefoot Bran Music.
Guided Meditation: Tonglen for a World in Conflict
Wisdom and Compassion - April 10, 2024 06:11 - 14 minutesStep into a space of introspection and compassionate inquiry as you embark on a contemplative journey through the landscape of global conflict. If you are an experienced practitioner of Tonglen, you already understand its profound power to use suffering as a springboard for compassion...
Guided Meditation: Tonglen for a World in Conflict
Wisdom and Compassion - April 10, 2024 06:11 - 14 minutesStep into a space of introspection and compassionate inquiry as you embark on a contemplative journey through the landscape of global conflict. If you are an experienced practitioner of Tonglen, you already understand its profound power to use suffering as a springboard for compassion...
Guided Meditation: Tonglen Practice for a Dying or Dead Animal
Wisdom and Compassion - April 10, 2024 05:50 - 20 minutesAs we journey through life, our paths often intertwine with those of animals, who become companions on our journey. Their presence enriches our lives, offering us love, loyalty, and a profound connection to the natural world. In their eyes, we see reflections of ourselves, reminding us ...
Guided Meditation: Tonglen Practice for a Dying or Dead Animal
Wisdom and Compassion - April 10, 2024 05:50 - 20 minutesAs we journey through life, our paths often intertwine with those of animals, who become companions on our journey. Their presence enriches our lives, offering us love, loyalty, and a profound connection to the natural world. In their eyes, we see reflections of ourselves, reminding us ...
Guided Meditation: Counting the Breath Meditation
Wisdom and Compassion - April 10, 2024 05:40 - 7 minutesCounting the breath meditation involves a deliberate and focused observation of the breath. The practitioner assumes a comfortable posture conducive to alertness and relaxation. With eyes either gently closed or slightly open, attention is drawn inward to the sensation of breathing. As the bre...
Death and Dying: Meditation on the Stages of the Bardos
Wisdom and Compassion - April 10, 2024 05:32 - 26 minutesIn Tibetan Buddhism, the term "bardo" refers to the intermediate states between death and rebirth. The most well-known bardo is the "Bardo Thodol" or the "Tibetan Book of the Dead," which describes the experiences one goes through during the intermediate state after death. According to ...
Guided Meditation: Stages of the Bardos
Wisdom and Compassion - April 10, 2024 05:32 - 26 minutesIn Tibetan Buddhism, the term "bardo" refers to the intermediate states between death and rebirth. The most well-known bardo is the "Bardo Thodol" or the "Tibetan Book of the Dead," which describes the experiences one goes through during the intermediate state after death. According to ...
What is an Unbounded View?
Wisdom and Compassion - April 10, 2024 05:27 - 19 minutesIn Buddhism, the concept of the 'unbounded view' typically refers to the perception of reality that transcends narrow, limited perspectives. It involves seeing the interconnectedness and interdependence of all phenomena, understanding the impermanent and ever-changing nature of existenc...
Shall I Practice the Mahayana or the Vajrayana?
Wisdom and Compassion - April 07, 2024 23:11 - 30 minutesThe choice between practicing Mahayana or Vajrayana Buddhism is deeply personal and depends on individual inclinations, aspirations, and circumstances. Mahayana Buddhism emphasizes the cultivation of compassion and the aspiration to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient b...
Preparing for the Bodhisattva Vows
Rime Buddhist Center Dharma Talks - April 07, 2024 22:49 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsDharma talk given by Lama Matthew Palden Gocha, April 7, 2024. Music by Barefoot Bran Music.
Tendrel
Wisdom and Compassion - April 05, 2024 22:14 - 7 minutesIn Buddhism, "tendrel" (Tibetan: རྟེན་འབྲེལ་) refers to the concept of interdependence or interconnectedness. It is closely related to the Buddhist principle of dependent origination (pratītyasamutpāda), which teaches that all phenomena arise in dependence upon causes and conditions. T...
How to be Rid of Negative Emotions
Rime Buddhist Center Dharma Talks - March 31, 2024 22:09 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsDharma talk given by Lama Matthew Palden Gocha, March 31, 2024. Music by Barefoot Bran Music.
Four Instructions Taught in the Sutras
Rime Buddhist Center Dharma Talks - March 24, 2024 22:50 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsDharma talk given by Daniel Scharpenburg, March 24, 2024. Music by Barefoot Bran Music.
Compassion: What are we afraid of?
Wisdom and Compassion - March 23, 2024 06:31 - 27 minutesCompassion is the wish that the suffering of others be relieved. It's also the wish that the causes of that suffering be dispelled. When learning compassion practices, people sometimes express fear. What are we afraid of? Vulnerability, fear of boundaries dissolving, fear of overwhelm, ...
Generosity: Can We Offer Fearlessness to the World?
Wisdom and Compassion - March 23, 2024 06:25 - 25 minutesIn Buddhism, one of the greatest generosities is to remove fear and the causes of fear for other beings. How can we practice generosity by offering fearlessness to others? What does fearlessness look like? To alleviate suffering brought about by fear, to promote safety and security, to ...
Speaking of Giraffes and Dharma
Wisdom and Compassion - March 22, 2024 21:26 - 17 minutesIn this episode I am remembering and sharing memories of my own American dharma teacher's teachings and teaching style. Even thinking about it now inspires my practice and my own teaching. He was humble and remarkably simple in his delivery—but years later I realize how much truth was i...
Six Perfections Part 2
Rime Buddhist Center Dharma Talks - March 17, 2024 21:38 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsDharma talk given by Chaplain Sergio C. Moreno-Denton, March 17, 2024. Music by Barefoot Bran Music.
Embodying Nondual Awakening with Judith Blackstone
Buddhist Geeks - March 11, 2024 14:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 389 ratingsIn this episode Ryan Oelke chats with Judith Blackstone, contemporary spiritual teacher, psychotherapist, and founder of The Realization Process, and author of her latest book, The Fullness of the Ground: A Guide to Embodied Awakening. They discuss a variety of aspects of what it means...
Embodying Nondual Awakening
Buddhist Geeks - March 11, 2024 14:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 389 ratingsIn this episode Ryan Oelke chats with Judith Blackstone, contemporary spiritual teacher, psychotherapist, and founder of The Realization Process, and author of her latest book, The Fullness of the Ground: A Guide to Embodied Awakening. They discuss a variety of aspects of what it means...
Six Perfections Part 1
Rime Buddhist Center Dharma Talks - March 10, 2024 20:32 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsDharma talk given by Daniel Scharpenburg, March 10, 2024. Music by Barefoot Bran Music.
Recognizing and Letting Go of the Illusion
Rime Buddhist Center Dharma Talks - March 03, 2024 21:12 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsDharma talk given by Nora Quiason, MD and Luis Flores, March 3, 2024. Music by Barefoot Bran Music.
World Peace Prayer [4]
BodhiHeart Podcast with Khenpo Sherab Sangpo - March 02, 2024 09:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 28 ratings“A peaceful world just does not happen to us. We need to create it. We all have the root of compassion that desires others to be free from suffering—it just needs to be developed.” -Khenpo Sherab Sangpo Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, a professor of Tibetan Buddhism in the Nyingma Lineage (bodhicittasangh...
World Peace Prayer [3]
BodhiHeart Podcast with Khenpo Sherab Sangpo - March 02, 2024 09:06 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratings“A peaceful world just does not happen to us. We need to create it. We all have the root of compassion that desires others to be free from suffering—it just needs to be developed.” -Khenpo Sherab Sangpo Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, a professor of Tibetan Buddhism in the Nyingma Lineage (bodhicittasangh...
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