Jon and Doug discuss the heart quality of equanimity and how to avoid its near enemy indifference.

Practice can often be most helpful when things in our life go sideways. Jon and Doug discuss practice in the context of doctors, dentists, and hospital visits. 

We return again to the topic of meditation and discuss different styles, and traditions and the “right way” to meditate.

Doug and Jon discuss various Buddhist and other traditions and how they may or may not relate to each other.

Finding some Dharma in reflecting on July 4th.

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What did the Buddha mean when he gave the instruction “Gladden the mind”. Jon and Doug discuss this question.

Letting go is a path to freedom, but how much do we need to let go of???? Well actually just about everything, but that’s easier said then done. Jon and Doug share their views!

Jon and Doug discuss how they guard the sense doors while coping with the reality of Social Media.

Is our practice a refuge from the world or an escape? What’s the difference and how does our practice act as a resource and recharge to face the world today with all its challenges.

Jon and Doug discuss how they guard the sense doors while coping with the reality of Social Media.

Jon and Doug discuss this role of Faith and Confidence in our practice.

How important are silence and solitude for our practice. What did the Buddha have to say about it. Jon and Doug discuss.

Jon and Doug discuss how we can our practice cultivates joy and the importance of bringing joy to our practice.

Jon reports in on his Buddhist Pilgrimage in India.

Jon and Doug discuss the concept of time in the Buddha’s teachings.

Jon and Doug have a conversation with the Israeli Dharma teacher and peace activitist Stephen Fulder on his work in Israel/Palestine over the last 40 plus years.

Practicing with others or practicing alone, what do you find to with a community. How is it different? Does it matter? Jon and Doug discuss this important question.

Doug and Jon discuss three key Factors of Awakening that can make a big difference in our practice

How does the habitual mind relate to consciousness and when does this become a problem. Jon and Doug discuss this final element of the five aggregates of clinging to self.

Volition, Formations, mental fabrications, constructions. . . . so many words to describe the wow of the mind and its potential karmic consequences.