129 - Why Is Self-Esteem Essential When the Self is Empty?
Self-esteem is absolutely essential in Buddhist practice, but it may seem like self-esteem has no place in Buddhism. The Buddha taught us to stop identifying anything as I, me, or mine, because doing ...
29 Feb 202029min
128 – Taking Action: Getting Out of the House and Helping Others (Crisis Buddhism Part 3)
Taking Action is the second area of practice in Crisis Buddhism. It means working to help alleviate or prevent the suffering we witness in the world by leaving our homes, interacting with others, and ...
19 Feb 202022min
127 - Crisis Buddhism - Part 2: Bearing Witness
Crisis Buddhism requires us to mindfully balance three essential areas of practice: Bearing Witness, Taking Action, and Taking Care. In this episode I discuss Bearing Witness, or exposing ourselves to...
11 Feb 202023min
126 - Crisis Buddhism: Sustainable Bodhisattva Practice in a World on Fire – Part 1
Crisis Buddhism is a new formulation of practice to help us navigate our everyday lives as we face ecological and climate breakdown. We mindfully balance three areas of practice: Bearing Witness, lear...
29 Jan 202023min
125 - Liberation Through Understanding the Five Wisdom Energies
The Vajrayana teaching of the five wisdom energies is a about five types of energy we all have within us, or five tendencies within a human being. Within each of us, one or two energies tend to predom...
21 Jan 202033min
124 - Giving Shape to Our Lives: The Buddhist Practice of Vow
Vows guide our decisions, help us prioritize how we spend our time, resources, and energy, and allow us to discern whether our actions are in harmony with our deeper aspirations - helping us live inte...
7 Jan 202037min
123 – Engaging Our Climate Emergency as a Koan and Opportunity
Our practical, lived response to our climate and ecological crisis – as individuals, Sanghas, and Dharma teachers – is inseparable from our Dharma practice. As Greta Thunberg has said, "Change is comi...
23 Dec 201936min
122 - Meditation Is NOT About Stopping Thoughts
In this episode, I talk about why we long to be thought-free. Then I discuss how meditation is not about stopping thought, but instead is a practice of diligently and repeatedly turning our attention ...
16 Dec 201930min
