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Practice Circle: Getting Stuck
For Practice Circle this coming Sunday the 25th of August, we’ll explore experiences of getting stuck, what they’re like, and ways in which our practice can help us get un-stuck. To join us, learn more on the Practice Circle web page.
Read MoreEpisode 316 :: Richard Harrold :: My Buddha Is Pink: Buddhism for the Modern Homosexual
Richard Harrold Richard Harrold joins us to speak about his book, My Buddha Is Pink: Buddhism for the Modern Homosexual. Contemporary religious traditions are experiencing stressors unprecendented in all of history. They are being hit by a double whammy: first, planet wide, instant access to their teachings and practices, which also opens them up to…
Read More8/11 Practice Circle: Compassion for Ourselves and the World
The key to compassion, either for ourselves or for others, is the understanding that suffering is something we share. It may be easy to grasp intellectually that all sentient beings experience suffering, but this insight is also deeply counter-intuitive. When I am in pain, that suffering is mine, part of a drama that is bound…
Read MorePractice Circle 7/28: Four Tasks
When Practice Circle meets on July 28, 2019, at 6 pm Pacific, 7 Mountain, 8 Central and 9 Eastern, we’ll share practice and discussion of how the Four Noble Truths manifest themselves in secular dharma practice. To prepare, I’m sharing this article I originally wrote in 2013. A link to our free, online practice community…
Read More7/14 Practice Circle: Relax
I think every contemplative technique I’m aware of involves at least some degree of relaxation. The practices I was taught in MBSR all begin with bringing awareness to areas of tightness and holding in the body and inviting them to relax; the Body Scan, which is the first technique one learns in MBSR, consists of…
Read MoreEpisode 313 :: Ben Connelly :: Mindfulness and Intimacy
Liberate Meditation App: A Review
Article in English and Spanish. Artículo en inglés y español. English: Update (12 August 2019): Recently, it was brought to my attention that this app is part of a for-profit business, owned by the developer and ran by 10 select employees. I do not know if this represents a change (I never checked…
Read MoreEpisode 312 :: Mitra Bishop Roshi :: Programming for Women Veterans with PTSD
Mitra Bishop Roshi Mitra Bishop Roshi joins us to speak about contemplative practice for women veterans experiencing PTSD. When a popular article is published about veterans with PTSD, it is often in reference to male veterans, complete with photos to cement the concept. And though this is certainly a very real problem, women veterans are…
Read MoreEpisode 311 :: Ron Serrano :: Practice with Others and Dharmachanics
6/9 Practice Circle: Letting Go
In the Pali texts, Gotama teaches that one cause of our suffering is our inability to allow and accept our experience the way it is. Because we so desperately want conditions to be the way we want them, despite the realization (or perhaps because of it) that we can’t really control our circumstances in any…
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