Latest Sutra Podcast Episodes
Meditation - Relax and Float Downstream
Six String Buddha - June 25, 2023 05:43 ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIt’s not a stretch to say The Beatles were pioneers on many levels, from music to pop culture and their experiences with meditation and eastern wisdom undoubtedly influenced several of their songs. Of all of them, the song that planted a spiritual seed in me was “Tomorrow Never Knows” as the lyr...
Learning to Shred Like a Buddha - The What, Why & How of Buddhist Practice
Six String Buddha - March 01, 2023 20:40 ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsBy definition, practicing means doing something repeatedly, to develop skill, proficiency, or competence, in order to become “better” at it. It involves spending time, implicitly focused on a particular area of interest, to rise above the surface level and master something; then perhaps eventual...
The Eight Winds - Using Resistance to Navigate Through Adversity
Six String Buddha - November 05, 2022 08:30 ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWhether you’re a Buddhist, a Christian, Jewish, or Jedi, or even if you don’t identify with any preconceived ideology, if you’re human, there’s one thing we all have in common, without exception. That is, none of us are able to go through life without eventually encountering obstacles and advers...
Episode 35: How to Use Your Voice
Walking Dharma - August 06, 2022 06:30 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsSpeaking our truth is integral in healing ancestral trauma and allows us to cultivate the ability to express what we feel within our hearts and intuion. This episode explores how to effectively use your voice through the lense of yogic philosophy. We explore how to balance ahimsa, non-violence, a...
Enlightenment: What It Is and What It's Not
Six String Buddha - May 04, 2022 20:28 ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsOf all the terms most commonly associated with buddhism and eastern philosophy, the word “enlightenment” is likely the first one you think of, any time buddhism or meditation is the topic of conversation. It’s also the one that’s often misunderstood, misinterpreted, or thought of as some superhu...
Compassion - “Driven to Tears” - What the World Needs Now.
Six String Buddha - February 12, 2022 21:36 ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsLooking at the world through the myriad of media sources we have at our disposal, it seems as though there’s no shortage of suffering and indifference. Between the pandemic affecting all of us, to the racial injustices, political discord, threat of war and the surmounting environmental issues, i...
Mentor and Disciple: “The Death of Superman” - A Tribute to EVH
Six String Buddha - December 01, 2021 21:28 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThrough the years, there have been many different schools of buddhist thought, but they’ve all built upon the original teachings of Shakyamuni and passed down what they’d learned to the next generation. They did this by following in the footsteps of their mentor and honored them by living the te...
Karma and the “Natural Science” of Cause & Effect
Six String Buddha - October 15, 2021 07:11 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsKarma affects every one of us and our collective karma affects the entire planet as a whole. Cause & effect is the law that determines the nature of the karma we create. The lyrics to Rush’s epic song “Natural Science” from their album “Permanent Waves” provide a perfect blueprint to explain the...
Interconnectedness: “Are You Experienced” with Universal Consciousness?
Six String Buddha - September 30, 2021 00:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsApart from being an amazing song, with enough guitar wizardry to shift the axis of the planet, the title track from Jimi Hendrix’s debut album is like a psychedelic spaceship, designed to take the listener’s mind on a journey… but not to “outer” space. Listening to “Are You Experienced?” with th...
Episode 34: Do It Anyway: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Walking Dharma - November 29, 2020 17:30 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsThis week's podcast is called,"Do It Anyway: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome." Imposter syndrome comes from trying to mold yourself after someone else's vision, ideals, standards and definitions of what you should do, act like, look like, express and create. It often arises when we put ourselves ou...
Episode 33: Transmuting Anger Into Insight
Walking Dharma - July 22, 2020 05:15 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsThis week's podcast is called,"Transmuting Anger into Insight." We dive into anger and how it manifests, how to work with it, how to clear it and how to use it as fuel for motivation. Several Buddhist mind training slogans are explored in relationship with how to utilize anger as a catalyst for...
Episode 32: How to (Actually) Surrender.
Walking Dharma - April 13, 2020 13:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsThis week's episode is called "How to (Actually) Surrender." We dive into the yogic principle of Isvara Pranidhana (surrender to God) through the lense of seeing God in all of life. Yoga Sutra 2:45 says,"By total surrender to God samahdi is attained." Surrender is often seen as resignation or g...
Scenes from the Life of the Buddha 2
Simple|Suttas Podcast - April 09, 2020 14:12 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsOnce Nigantha Nataputta, a spiritual teacher and leader of the Niganthas, hatched a plan to embarrass the Buddha. He said to Prince Abhaya, “Prince, I have a plan to make you famous far and wide as the man who showed that Gotama is a fraud. Go to him and ask, ‘Do Awakened Buddhas ever speak … Con...
Scenes from the Life of the Buddha 1
Simple|Suttas Podcast - April 02, 2020 13:39 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsI was a spoiled youth. My father had lotus ponds dug for me with lotuses of all colors. My clothes and sandalwood were imported from Kāsī. A servant held a white umbrella over my head day and night to keep from from heat or rain. I had three cottages: one for summer, one for winter, … Continue re...
Nibbana 2
Simple|Suttas Podcast - March 30, 2020 14:40 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsOnce while staying at Anathapindika’s Forest Park, the Buddha was visited by a beautiful deva whose radiance lit up the forest grove. The deva asked, “How did you ford the raging river?” The Buddha replied, “I did not stop, and I did not struggle .” “But why?” “When I began to stop, I would sink....
Sutta Topics 2
Simple|Suttas Podcast - March 22, 2020 13:39 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsStand like a guard, vigilantly watching the doors of the 6 senses. When you see something, do not become entranced by it. If you have no control over where you look, you can easily be overwhelmed by unhelpful states of mind. Have self-control over your eyes, your ears, your nose, tongue, body, an...
Teaching and Learning
Simple|Suttas Podcast - March 16, 2020 13:39 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIf you long for a devoted crowd of disciples, it corrupts your heart and makes deep meditation difficult. Respect can be a dart, difficult to remove. -KN Thag 18.1 Sāriputtattheragāthā While this teaching is good and helpful, do not cling to it. Don’t treat it like a precious possession to be gua...
Nibbana 1
Simple|Suttas Podcast - March 14, 2020 14:40 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThere is a place that is uncreated, unborn, and unsupported. If there were not such a place, there would be no escape. -KN Udana 8.4 Catutthanibbana Sutta You cannot reach the end of the world by walking But to achieve the goal of the holy life You must reach the end of the world A … Continue rea...
Episode 31: Face Yourself
Walking Dharma - March 14, 2020 08:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsThis week's episode is called,"Face Yourself," and it dives deep into the yogic philosophy of svadhyaya, self study. "By study of spiritual books comes communion with one's chosen deity." - Yoga Sutras 2:44 Translated literally, svadhyaya means spiritual study as well as self study. At first g...
Wisdom 1
Simple|Suttas Podcast - February 15, 2020 14:43 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsYou should take time to be alone. If you spend time alone you will come to understand: this is suffering, this is the cause of suffering, this is the end of suffering, this is the way to end suffering. You should take time to be alone. If you spend time alone you will come to … Continue reading W...
Suffering
Simple|Suttas Podcast - February 09, 2020 14:32 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIf you tie a dog to a post, it will keep running in circles all day. In the same way, a person who hasn’t learned the Dhamma will keep running in circles, obsessed with things, with feelings, with perception, choices, and consciousness. They are not free! -SN 22.10.99 Gaddulabaddha Sutta There ar...
Kamma
Simple|Suttas Podcast - February 09, 2020 14:21 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsOnce Vacchagotta the Wanderer said to the Buddha, “I hear that you teach that people should only give alms to you and your monks, nobody else. That giving to others doesn’t make merit. Is that true?” “No, that is not true,” replied the Buddha. “Giving is always a good thing, and anyone that says ...
Lust
Simple|Suttas Podcast - February 03, 2020 14:16 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsAs a Buddhist monk, I went to a graveyard. There I saw the body of a dead woman, Covered in worms. Although most people would find it disgusting, I was filled with lust. I fled faster than The time it takes to cook rice. I went to a quiet place, To practice my mindfulness. I … Continue reading Lust
Meditation 4
Simple|Suttas Podcast - January 16, 2020 23:56 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIf you learn to practice self-control over the things you see, hear, smell, taste, touch, and think, then you will keep your mind pure. When your mind is pure, joy arises. When you are joyful, the body naturally becomes relaxed. A relaxed body leads to bliss, and bliss leads to samadhi. And for o...
Meditation 3
Simple|Suttas Podcast - January 10, 2020 18:58 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsOnce Ānanda asked the Buddha, “Is it possible to achieve a state of meditation where you no longer experience any physical sensation, any space, any consciousness, nothingness, perception, anything in this world or any other world? And yet still there is still experience?” “Yes,” the Buddha repli...
Meditation 2
Simple|Suttas Podcast - January 04, 2020 18:58 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWhat are the five things that are the hallmarks of deep meditation, of jhana? When a spiritual seeker completely withdraws from sense pleasures they enter the first stage of jhana. They are filled with bliss and happiness but are still returning again and again to the subject of meditation. Their...
Meditation 1
Simple|Suttas Podcast - December 29, 2019 18:58 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsI know of nothing that can arouse desire more than a thing of beauty. If you fixate on such a thing without wisdom, your desire will only grow. The best way to overcome desire is to focus your attention on something ugly rather than the object of your desire. If you can move your attention … Cont...
Episode 30: You Deserve to Take Up Space
Walking Dharma - December 23, 2019 12:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsThis week's podcast is called,'You Deserve to Take Up Space.' It dives into what it really takes to be out in the world living our truth, pursuing our dreams and thinking big in a way that is alignment with our highest truths and authentic self. This episode is guided by several entries in the B...
Loving Kindness
Simple|Suttas Podcast - December 11, 2019 16:40 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHatred never brings an end to hatred. Only by love can it end. This is the truth of ages. -KN Dhammapada 5 All beings fear cruelty. All beings fear death. Knowing that all beings suffer just like you, Never kill or be the cause of killing. All beings fear cruelty. All beings cherish their life. …...
Lay Life
Simple|Suttas Podcast - November 29, 2019 15:22 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsA follower of the Dhamma should not engage in certain kinds of business. For example, you should not buy or sell weapons, human beings, animals, meat, alcohol, or poison. -AN 5.177 Once Mahānāma, asked the Buddha, “Who is considered a Buddhist?” The Buddha replied, “A Buddhist is someone who has ...
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