The Buddha's 8-Part Manual for a Good Life | Brother Pháp Dung
Today we're talking about one of the Buddha's first and most important lists: the Eightfold Path. I'm kinda surprised we've never done a deep dive into this list on the show before, but better late th...
1 Feb 202144min
How to Do Nothing | Jenny Odell
For an audience of meditators (or aspiring meditators), the idea of doing nothing shouldn't be foreign. But, speaking from personal experience, it is very possible, especially for Type A people, to ap...
27 Jan 202159min
A New Way to Think About Your Time | Ashley Whillans
For many of us, in this pandemic, our relationship to time has become particularly fraught. You may be noticing that, with no limits on your work time, you are going into overdrive and feeling more cr...
25 Jan 20211h 14min
Non-Preachy Ethics | Jozen Tamori Gibson
We're diving in on another Buddhist list today. One of the many things I like about the Buddha is that, as far as I can tell, he pretty much always aims his messages, even the hard-to-swallow ones, at...
20 Jan 20211h 3min
How to Call People In (Instead of Calling Them Out) | Loretta Ross
On this Martin Luther King day, it's tempting to fear that America, and the world, may never have been further away from the kind of inclusive society that Dr. King called for so eloquently. So today,...
18 Jan 202159min
A Big Dose of Perspective | Jack Kornfield
This is exactly what I needed right now: a huge, helpful dose of perspective in the midst of the political crisis gripping America -- a crisis which, of course, has ripple effects for the whole world....
13 Jan 20211h 7min
A Wise and Counterintuitive Way to Meditate in a Crisis | Lama Rod Owens
If you're either seething or scared — or both — in the aftermath of the attack on the US Capitol, this one's for you. In times of national and international strife, we've made it a habit of turning to...
11 Jan 20211h 5min
National Trauma–Now What? | Jon Kabat-Zinn Special Edition
I don't know about you, but I felt a lot of anger, fear, and sadness while watching those horrifying images from the United States Capitol on Wednesday. So how do we handle this with some degree of eq...
8 Jan 202159min
