Wise Effort and the Window of Tolerance
This talk offers suggestions about how we can wisely respond to challenging states of mind and find ways to cultivate wholesome ways of being in the world.
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Mindfulness as a Spiritual Power
Mindfulness is the embarkation point of a path. One way of understanding mindfulness is through some of the similes found woven into the early teachings.
Understanding the Power of Relationship and Turning It Towards the Good
Insight Dialogue harnesses the power of relationship to amplify mindfulness and deepen concentration so this enriched meditative power can be applied to understanding and fully living the dharma.
Becoming a Child of Illusion
What does it mean to see the world as illusory? One could argue the trajectory of the path is to bring appearance in harmony with reality.
The Conditions for Ethical Well-Being and Happiness
Why do ethics matter? As soon as we ask the questions ‘How do we live?’ and “What do we do?’ we are in the territory of ethics.
The Four Noble Truths: Living Life with Purpose
The Four Noble Truths are the core foundation of Buddhism, offering profound insights into the very nature of human existence.
Living Courageously
Bradley Donaldson discusses the principles of living with courage and compassion through the lens of the Middle Length Discourses.
Becoming A New Saint
Lama Rod Owens reinterprets the bodhisattva tradition and outlines the four qualities of the New Saint.
The Eight Awarenesses of the Awakened Being
Laura Burges discusses “The Eight Awarenesses of the Awakened Being” as realizations that are available to us all.
The Wisdom of Equanimity in Global Crisis
In this talk, Lama Karma presents equanimity as a facet of primordial wisdom, and the basis for an authentic response to the challenges we face both personally and as a global community.
Daily Dharma
Our suffering is not mysterious and inexplicable; it is grounded in the bare facts of human existence. To understand it, we must unflinchingly accept the nature of the human condition, its finiteness, limitation, and circumscription by the metaphysical particulars of the world.
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