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Episode 336 :: Paul Keddy :: Darwin Meets the Buddha
Paul Keddy Paul Keddy joins us to speak about Darwin Meets the Buddha: Human Nature, Buddha Nature, Wild Nature. The interconnectedness of all life sometimes takes a back seat in Buddhism, with the spotlight going to lists in service of release from rounds of rebirth. The earning of that freedom, however, happens in samsara, and…
Read MoreEpisode 335 :: Ajahn Sona :: Bloom: Buddhist Reflections on Serenity and Love
Ajahn Sona Ajahn Sona joins us to speak about Bloom: Buddhist Reflections on Serenity and Love. While not all of us will choose the monastic path, those who do have an amazing opportunity to live a life steeped in thousands of years of tradition. And from that foundation, the rest of us get to learn…
Read More6/29 Practice Circle: Meeting Difficult Emotions with RAIN
This is a time of difficult emotions. We are scared, anxious, angry. We might be grieving everything and everyone who has been lost, or we might be frustrated by the slow chaos of progress. It doesn’t matter that we’re all feeling these things, or that it is very natural to have turbulent emotions in the…
Read MoreEpisode 334 :: Matteo Pistono :: Roar: Sulak Sivaraksa and the Path of Socially Engaged Buddhism
Matteo Pistono Matteo Pistono returns to the podcast to speak about his new book Roar: Sulak Sivaraksa and the Path of Socially Engaged Buddhism Buddhism is ostensibly about ending suffering by extinguishing attachment, and that may seem in conflict with the complexities of social justice, inextricably part of samsara or conditioned existence. That doesn’t look…
Read More6/14 Practice Circle: The Power of Poetry
I’ve been a poetry geek since I was a kid, and the poetry I liked best was the most mysterious. T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, were utterly indecipherable to me at 14 – and even years later, after I got a graduate degree in this stuff, it’s still hard for me to understand what…
Read MoreEpisode 333 :: Pamela Weiss :: A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism
Pamela Weiss Pamela Weiss joins us to speak about A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism. One of the challenges to Buddhism in its encounter with modernity is its relationship to gender equality. The ordination of Bhikkhunis during Gotama’s lifetime was certainly ground breaking and progressive for the time, but times have changed, and…
Read MoreEpisode 332 :: Lama Rod Owens :: Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger
Lama Rod Owens Lama Rod Owens returns to the podcast to talk about Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger. This topic reminds me of a meme I’ve been seeing for several years and agree with, “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.” Anger is frequently condemned in Buddhism, confused with hatred…
Read MoreEpisode 331 :: Barbara Bonner :: Inspiring Forgiveness
Barbara Bonner Barbara Bonner joins us to speak about Inspiring Forgiveness. Forgiveness is a term that can mean different things to different people, whether we’re Buddhists or not, from welcome lightening of burdens to harmful judgments about having to practice it. From the guest in today’s interview, “As we go through this time and we…
Read MorePractice Circle 4/26: Love is the Antidote to Fear
There is the liberation of the heart by loving-kindness; frequently giving wise attention to it — this is the denourishing of the arising of ill-will that has not yet arisen, and the decrease and weakening of ill-will that has already arisen. — SN 46:51 There is much fear in the world now. Most of us…
Read MoreGuided Meditation: Visiting the Sick
https://secularbuddhism.org/wp-content/uploads/Visiting-the-Sick.mp3 I have been very moved lately by the suffering of people who are sick with coronavirus and who must be isolated from their family and loved ones. For those of us who are not directly affected by the pandemic, it’s easy for the suffering of those who are sick to feel abstract and remote.…
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