Active Days, Restless Nights
Exhausted from the daily protests and sleeping at a different monastery roof with fellow protesters every night for safety, his face darkened from being out under the hot sun all day, his voice hoarse...
2 Mars 20212h 15min
The Power of Mettā in Action
In looking back at the turbulent recent history of her country, Sayalay Chandadhika, a Burmese Buddhist nun based in Germany, sees a never-ending spiral of destructive patterns that continue to produc...
22 Feb 20211h 34min
Facing Darkness with Light
“We are already in the danger. So we don’t care anymore. The dawn won’t be that much darker than the midnight. And we are already in the midnight, so the darkness can’t be much worse. We are at the pe...
16 Feb 202152min
Finding Inner Stability in Troubling Times
“The Dhamma is so central to this culture, and [yet] not understood by the people who write about this place in the media from overseas. So all those sorts of things get reported from a vacuum of unde...
6 Feb 20211h 19min
The Mystery of U Lokanatha, Part 1
Antonio Costanzo and his team may never solve all the mysteries of the life of the great Italian monk U Lokanatha, but they are certainly trying!Even the little we know of U Lokanatha’s spiritual resu...
2 Feb 20211h 8min
From the River Bank of Consciousness
“And then there was a particular moment in the meditation where it was almost as if awareness separated out from the rest of the objects of consciousness.” So begins David Sudar on sharing about one o...
24 Jan 20211h 21min
Luissa Burton
Today’s episode explores a journey from the fashion runway to the meditation hall. An actress, model, and beauty queen, Luissa Burton discusses the circuitous route that ultimately brought her to medi...
15 Jan 20212h 19min
Detached Engagement: Racial Equity Training in the Vipassana organization of S.N. Goenka
What place does engagement in social justice issues have, if any, within vipassana meditation centers in the tradition of S.N. Goenka? That is question Clyde Ford is asking, and is at the heart of a t...
6 Jan 20211h 55min
