Maho Kawachi: The Power of Compassion – Podcast 154
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Maho Kawachi offers a riveting personal example of the power of compassion in meeting aggression, stimulating a discussion about compassionate action.
Robert Chender: Keeping Your Cool When You’re Stressed Out – Podcast 153
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How does meditation help you stay grounded when it’s so easy to stress out? Robert Chender discusses the science and art of keeping your cool.
Vegan Aharonian: The Science of Meditation – Podcast 152
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Feeling scattered? Stressed? Vegan Aharonian discusses the latest scientific research about meditation’s positive impact on the human brain and body.
Ethan Nichtern: No Such Thing as a Relationship Expert – Podcast 151
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If we want to wake up, we have to deal with others. Shastri Ethan Nichtern discusses the importance of our relationships to the path, while dispelling common myths about mastering them. There’s no such thing as a relationship expert.
Joseph Mauricio: The Incredible Light of Being – Podcast No. 150
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Often we judge others. Very often we judge ourselves. But what if we were already everything that we needed to be? Joseph Mauricio discusses how meditation helps us recognize our inherent value to the world.
Shanté Smalls: Protecting & Caring for the Sangha – Podcast 149
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What does it mean to protect and care for others? Dr. Shanté Smalls discusses why we need not be helpless in the face of aggression, and how meditation helps us cultivate a caring attitude toward ourselves and others.
Ethan Nichtern: How Can Buddhists Deal With Wealth? – Podcast 148
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What does the Dharma have to teach us about money? Value? Self-worth? Shastri Ethan Nichtern discusses the implications of wealth and generosity on an individual and societal level.
Joseph Mauricio: Foundations of Mindfulness – Podcast No. 147
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How we feel – emotionally, physically, and energetically – informs so much of what we do and perceive as we go about our day. This is why mindfulness of our feelings and thoughts can have such a clarifying impact on our lives.
David Perrin: Impermanence: The Bad News and the Good News – Podcast 146
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David Perrin discusses impermanence, both the bad news and the good. What does it meant to practice recognizing the reality that things are constantly changing?
Shanté Smalls: I Can’t Meditate! – Podcast 145
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Dr. Shanté Smalls discusses what it means to commit to a meditation practice, sometimes in spite of ourselves.
