Sleep as a Spiritual Journey
“Look to your experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your experience of sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake.” – Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoc...
21 Heinä 201520min
The Inevitable Tension: Going Deep vs. Spreading Wide
Melvin McLeod, Editor-in-Chief of the Shambhala Sun and Buddhadharma magazines, concludes his conversation with us, this time discussing the inevitable tensions that arise in Buddhist media. These ten...
21 Heinä 201516min
Peering Under the Hood of Buddhist Media
“Buddhism offers the most profound critique or criticism of life imaginable in it’s analysis of the role of ego, and of the nature of samsara, as well as in its basic doctrine of emptiness. There coul...
21 Heinä 201517min
Existential Threats and Risks: We Can't Escape Impermanence!
“At any moment the Yellowstone caldera could blow up, wipe out %99 of the life on the surface of the planet, and probably all humans, and in our last minutes the degree of equanimity with which we fac...
21 Heinä 201514min
Cyborg Buddhas & Techno-Utopian Pure Lands!
With radical advances in science in technology would it be possible for us to turn our world into a so-called, “Buddha Realm” or would it be more likely that we create some sort of God Realm, where aw...
21 Heinä 201515min
Transhumanism and the Authentic Self
“The longer our lives, the more we’ll have a chance to see that there’s no self living them.” – James Hughes What is Transhumanism and how is it related to Buddhist practice? Will technology enable us...
21 Heinä 201518min
Rebirth and Suffering: How Important Are They?
“I do not believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.” – Woody Allen The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche joins us again, this time to discuss the importance of the teachings of re...
21 Heinä 201521min
The Best Preparation for Dying Well is Living Well
The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche is the only Rinpoche we know who owns and uses a Blackberry! Rinpoche shares with us the different ways that he has adopted modern technology into the work that he does an...
21 Heinä 201511min
