Mental Strength in the 21st Century
In this online retreat, the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Phakchok Rinpoche shares five tips that will fortify your mind against the ever-proliferating anxieties of our brave new world.
Dharma Talks
Video teachings with contemporary Buddhist teachers
2014 Archive
Never Turn Away: Opening the Mind of Awakening
In this online retreat, the Thai forest nuns Ayya Santacitta and Ayya Anandabodhi show us how to abandon the predictable reactive patterns of our minds by turning toward all our experience completely and openly.
A Zen Approach to Conflict
How do you deal with the inevitable conflicts in your life? In this online video retreat, Diane Musho Hamilton, Zen teacher and professional mediator, will guide you through getting past the traditional fight-or-flight response and show you how to approach navigating conflict fearlessly and with innovation.
Embracing the Mad Mind
In this retreat, Ruth King will guide us to recognizing our own “mad minds” and present a series of techniques and practices to free ourselves from its grip and embrace our capacity for love and joy.
Embodied Love: Core Tibetan Trainings for an Unbounded Heart
In this retreat, Anne C. Klein will review each of the four immeasurables: equanimity, love, compassion, and joy, as a means of cultivating an unbounded heart.
Daily Practice: How to Get on the Cushion Every Day
In this retreat, Brad Warner will engage us in the fundamentals of meditating, and mastering the discipline to practice daily.
SPECIAL RETREAT : The Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind
In this special retreat, Mingyur Rinpoche offers his brief teachings on the Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind, as a means to establishing a solid foundation practice.
The Healing Power of Innate Love and Wisdom: Meditations from Tibet for Westerners
In this retreat, John Makransky will lead meditation practices from Tibet that have been adapted for fresh access to Westerners, with a special focus on our innate capacities for loving compassion and wisdom.
Understanding Dependent Origination
In this retreat, Tempel Smith will explore the twelve links within dependent origination that lead from misunderstanding (avijja) to suffering (dukkha) and how each link conditions the arising of the next.
Practices of a Bodhisattva: The Six Paramitas
In this retreat, Karma Trinlay Rinpoche walks us through the Six Paramitas, expanding on the different aspects of each virtue and exploring how they may be cultivated in practice.
Parting from the Four Attachments
In this retreat, Lama Jampa Thaye guides us through the Four Attachments, exploring the ways in which the mind, even for practitioners of the dharma, can create pitfalls and traps that lead one astray. By untangling these four attachments, we can discern further into our own motivations for practice, and adjust ourselves on the path.
Real Happiness at Work
In this retreat, Sharon Salzberg offers meditations for accomplishment, achievement, and peace in the work place. Guiding us through practices that have application in both the professional and personal realms, she outlines an attitude to achieve real happiness at work.
Transforming Our Greatest Obstacle into Our Greatest Opportunity
In this retreat, Andrew Holecek will address our views of death and offer guidance into what to do before, during, and after death.
Daily Dharma
Equanimity is said to be an anchor. It protects you against the “worldly winds”—pleasure and pain, praise and blame, gain and loss, and fame and disrepute—by keeping you anchored so you’re not tossed about by those winds.
The Daily Dharma App is now available!
