100 – Twelve Pali Canon Suttas Every Buddhist Should Know – Part 2
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....
17 Maj 201929min
99 – Nine Fields of Zen Practice: A Framework for Letting Practice Permeate Your Life – Part 2
Zen practice can permeate every aspect of our lives. To help lay practitioners appreciate this outside the full-immersion experience of residential training, I've defined Nine Fields of Zen Practice: ...
10 Maj 201922min
98 – Nine Fields of Zen Practice: A Framework for Letting Practice Permeate Your Life – Part 1
Zen practice can permeate every aspect of our lives. To help lay practitioners appreciate this outside the full-immersion experience of residential training, I've defined Nine Fields of Zen Practice: ...
3 Maj 201925min
97 – Twelve Pali Canon Suttas Every Buddhist Should Know – Part 1
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....
26 Apr 201928min
Off-Week Editorial - It's Not Enough to Respond to What's Right in Front of You
The core of Buddhist practice is cultivating mindfulness of this moment and responding as best we can to whatever we encounter in the course of our personal, daily lives. However, if we aspire to ceas...
19 Apr 201910min
96 - Zazen Pamphlet: Essential (and Brief) Instructions for the Practice of Zazen
I challenged myself to write instructions for the practice of zazen that would fit on a letter-sized, tri-fold brochure – 8 ½ by 11 inches, two sided. I figured I'd share it here on the podcast – and ...
12 Apr 201915min
95 - Lineage in Buddhism: The Intersection Between the Individual and the Collective Tradition
In many forms of Buddhism, particularly in Zen, we have the concept of "lineage:" the essential aspects of our collective religious tradition have been passed down through the generations from one rea...
7 Apr 201929min
94 - Buddha's Teachings 13 - The Five Hindrances - Part 3
The Buddha taught that there are five main "hindrances" we encounter in our spiritual practice: 1) Worldly desire; 2) ill-will; 3) sloth-and-torpor; 4) restlessness-and-worry, and 5) uncertainty (or s...
30 Mars 201936min
