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Season 4 Ep 11: The Dharma of Independence (Day).
Finding some Dharma in reflecting on July 4th.
Please join us!
Season 4 Ep 10: How Do We Gladden the Mind?
What did the Buddha mean when he gave the instruction “Gladden the mind”. Jon and Doug discuss this question.
Season 4 Ep 9: Letting Go is Hard to Do
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!
Season 4 Ep 7: Guarding the Sense Doors while Dealing with Social Media
Jon and Doug discuss how they guard the sense doors while coping with the reality of Social Media.
Season 4 Ep 8: Practice as Refuge and Recharge
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.
Season 4 Ep 6: Practicing with the Attitude of Acceptance
Jon and Doug discuss how they guard the sense doors while coping with the reality of Social Media.
Season 4 Ep 5: The Role of Faith or Confidence in our Practice
Jon and Doug discuss this role of Faith and Confidence in our practice.
Season 4 Ep 4: Silence and Solitude
How important are silence and solitude for our practice. What did the Buddha have to say about it. Jon and Doug discuss.
Season 4 Ep 3: Finding Joy Through Practice
Jon and Doug discuss how we can our practice cultivates joy and the importance of bringing joy to our practice.
Season 4 Ep 2: Pilgrimage and Spiritual Seekers
Jon reports in on his Buddhist Pilgrimage in India.
Season 4 Ep 1: It’s About Time
Jon and Doug discuss the concept of time in the Buddha’s teachings.
Season 3 Ep 38: Practicing in Challenging TImes: a conversation with Stephen Fulder
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.
Season 3 Ep 37: Refuge in Practice: Self or Sangha?
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.
Season 3 Ep 36: Investigation, Energy and Joy
Doug and Jon discuss three key Factors of Awakening that can make a big difference in our practice
Season 3 Ep 35: Conscious of Consciousness
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.
Season 3 Ep 34: Sankharas, What Are They? Volitional Formations/Mental Constructions, etc.?
Volition, Formations, mental fabrications, constructions. . . . so many words to describe the wow of the mind and its potential karmic consequences.
Season 3 Ep 33: Bringing Our Practice to an Unwanted Outcome
Given the results of the US Election (not the outcome desired by Doug or Jon), how can our practice be a support.
Season 3 Ep 32: Takin’bout Feeling (Vedana)
For many, at least in the US, this election season has created a great deal of anxiety. It’s not very pleasant! This is one aspect of Vedana, the feeling tone of experience. Doug and Jon have a lively discussion on this important key to freedom.
Season 3 Ep 31: Forms as an Aggregate of Clinging.
Doug and Jon continue to explore the Five Aggregates of Clinging. How do we cling to the form I call me, or the form I call you and beyond.
Season 3 Ep 30: "Things Are Not as the Seem , Nor are they Otherwise*"-- Perception and Mis-Perception
Perception is always an interesting aspect of mind to talk about. Doug and Jon, of course, have mis-perceptions about many things, and decide to speak about them here.