Archive for May 2019
Episode 310 :: David Loy :: Ecodharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis
5/26 Practice Circle: New Attitudes of Mindfulness: Gratitude & Generosity
At Practice Circle, we have worked with Jon Kabat Zinn’s Seven Attitudes of Mindfulness: Acceptance, Nonjudging, Nonstriving, Letting Go, Patience, Humor, Trust, and Beginner’s Mind. In their terrific training manual for mindfulness teachers, A Clinician’s Guide to Teaching Mindfulness, Christina Wolf and J. Greg Serpa add three more: Curiosity, Kindness, and Gratitude and Generosity. When Practice…
Read MorePractice Circle 5/12: New Attitudes of Mindfulness: Kindness
At Practice Circle, we have worked with Jon Kabat Zinn’s Seven Attitudes of Mindfulness: Acceptance, Nonjudging, Nonstriving, Letting Go, Patience, Humor, Trust, and Beginner’s Mind. In their terrific training manual for mindfulness teachers, A Clinician’s Guide to Teaching Mindfulness, Christina Wolf and J. Greg Serpa add three more: Curiosity, Kindness, and Gratitude and Generosity. When…
Read MoreWhat Isn’t Meditation
We hear lots of different things called “meditative” in daily life. But are they really meditation in the Buddhist sense of the term? We will look at several of these and see how they stack up, and then turn to a passage from the early texts that may help illuminate the problem. This will be…
Read MoreBuddhist Practice for Social Change
How can early Buddhist practice help our effort for social change? We’ll discuss ways that these teachings can impact our efforts towards making the world a better place, and ways that they might help make us healthier and more effective. Books mentioned: Bhikkhu Bodhi, The Buddha’s Teachings on Social and Communal Harmony Richard Gombrich, Theravāda…
Read MoreEpisode 309 :: Toni Bernhard :: How To Be Sick Revised and Updated
Toni Bernhard Toni Bernhard joins us to speak about the updated and revised edition of her book How To Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers. Hi, everyone. Before we begin today’s episode, I would like to mention that this podcast and the supporting website, discussion forums, our live, online…
Read MoreDealing With Regret
We all have regrets. We’ll discuss what early Buddhism says about them. What is their role in our lives? What good can they do us? And how do we deal with them, and move forward? Suttas mentioned: https://suttacentral.net/an10.1/en/sujatohttps://suttacentral.net/sn46.53/en/sujato
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