108 - Buddha's Teachings 14: The Five Skandhas as Focus for the Practice of Not-Self (Anatta)
The "Five Skandhas," or aggregates, are the five aspects of a human being: Form, the body; Feelings, our positive, negative, or neutral reactions to stimuli; Perception, the basic process of labeling ...
30 Juli 201939min
107 - Finding and Enacting Our Best Response to the World's Suffering
Buddhism includes values of Right Action and Right Livelihood, generosity, goodwill, and compassion, and Mahayana Buddhists vow to free all beings from suffering. It's not easy to enact these values a...
19 Juli 201932min
106 - Dogen's Shishobo: The Four Ways Bodhisattvas Embrace Living Beings – Part 2
In the last episode I introduced an essay by Zen master Dogen called Bodaisatta-Shishobo, or the Four Ways Bodhisattvas Embrace Living Beings. I briefly defined the bodhisattva's four embracing action...
13 Juli 201922min
105 - Dogen's Shishobo: The Four Ways Bodhisattvas Embrace Living Beings
Given the many stressful and sad things happening in the world right now, I thought I'd spend a couple episodes on an inspiring essay by 13th century Zen master Dogen called "Bodaisatta-Shishobo," or ...
7 Juli 201931min
104 – Buddhists: It's Time to Address the Climate Emergency
Most western convert Buddhist communities have had the luxury of regarding "activism" for social or environmental justice as an optional or supplemental activity some people take up because they have ...
29 Juni 201935min
103 – Twelve Pali Canon Suttas Every Buddhist Should Know – Part 3
Theravadin and Vipassana Buddhists tend to be familiar with the Pali Canon, particularly the suttas, or discourses of the Buddha. Other Buddhists don't tend to spend as much time exploring Pali texts....
14 Juni 201923min
102 – Nine Fields of Zen Practice: A Framework for Letting Practice Permeate Your Life – Part 3
Buddhist practice can permeate every aspect of our lives. To help practitioners appreciate this outside the full-immersion experience of residential training, I've defined Nine Fields of Zen Practice:...
7 Juni 201928min
101 – The Koan of Awakening: Do You Know the Essential Truth Yet, Or Not?
From the beginning, it's been clear that the highest rewards of Buddhism are experienced through a fundamental and radical shift in the way you understand the world and your place in it. This shift ha...
3 Juni 201933min
