184 – 14 Ways to Enliven Your Zazen – Part 1
22 Okt 202127min
183 – Natural Koans: Engaging Our Limitations as Dharma Gates
Formal Zen koans are short stories or statements by past Chan/Zen masters which have been passed down through the generations for study and contemplation by Zen students. Each koan contains a Dharma t...
11 Okt 202143min
182 - Answers to Interview Questions from Eastern Horizon Magazine
I share with you questions and answers from my 2020 written interview for Eastern Horizon, a tri-annual magazine of the Young Buddhist Association of Malaysia (YBAM). There are some basic questions ab...
29 Sep 202130min
181 - Bodhicitta: Way-Seeking Mind, or the Mind of Enlightenment
Bodhicitta can be translated as Way-Seeking Mind, or the Mind of Enlightenment. It's the part of us that recognizes and seeks truth and goodness, inspiring our spiritual search and motivating our prac...
22 Sep 202138min
180 - The Dharma of Staying Calm When Facing Challenges
When we can't - or don't want to - avoid facing challenges (our own or those of others), what does the Dharma offer us in terms of preventing anxiety, fear, overwhelm, burnout, depression, or despair?...
10 Sep 202135min
179 - Inadequacy to Abundance: Rewriting Our Self-Narrative
As human beings we have a self-narrative, and for most - if not all - of us, this narrative includes a sense of inadequacy. When we conceive of ourselves as a "small self against the world" we will al...
30 Aug 202129min
178 – Declaring War on Global Heating and What That Means to a Buddhist
I remind us of the reality of the climate emergency, and then argue that the most appropriate response to it is for us – as individuals, communities, states, and nations – to declare war on global hea...
21 Aug 202131min
177 - Unconditional Strength and Gratitude: The Medicine of Suchness
The medicine of suchness is life-saving, because even the happiest and most fortunate human life inevitably contains suffering. Sometimes – in our personal lives or in the wider world – we face terrib...
13 Aug 202133min
