240 – One Reality, Many Descriptions Part 4: Buddha-Nature 2
This is part four of my series called "One Reality, Many Descriptions," Buddha-Nature Part 2. I first talk about Buddha-Nature as trust. Then I offer the requisite discussions of what Buddha-Nature is...
31 Touko 202325min
239 – One Reality, Many Descriptions Part 3: Buddha-Nature 1
This is part three of my series called "One Reality, Many Descriptions." While experiences of Emptiness and Suchness (or Thusness) may be liberating and transformative, we may be left with the questio...
28 Touko 202327min
238 - Eco-Anxiety and Buddhism – Part 2
It's natural to feel some eco-anxiety as the earth's natural life-support systems break down. Buddhism clearly admonishes us to refrain from killing, to actively care for all life, and see ourselves a...
12 Touko 202334min
237 - Eco-Anxiety and Buddhism – Part 1
Eco-anxiety is fear that our earth's natural life-support systems are in the process of a collapse that will be catastrophic to life as we know it. This fear may range in intensity between a vague, pe...
29 Huhti 202337min
236 - Spiritual Inquiry Part 5: Koans and Awakening
Awakening Inquiry is aimed at awakening to what I've been calling Reality-with-a-Capital-R. How do we inquire into aspects of Reality we have not yet even imagined? How do we even know what we don't k...
19 Huhti 202338min
235 – One Reality, Many Descriptions Part 2: Suchness or Thusness
What do Buddhists mean by the terms "Suchness" or "Thusness"? Over the millennia, Buddhists have employed many concepts to point us toward Reality-with-a-Capital-R, because awakening to Reality is pro...
12 Huhti 202338min
234 – Spiritual Inquiry Part 4: Investigating and Resolving Karmic Issues
In the last episode I discussed "karma work," or the process of noticing the underlying reasons for our selfish, harmful, or less-than-enlightened behaviors of body, speech, and mind, and then working...
30 Maalis 202325min
233 – Spiritual Inquiry Part 3: Identifying our Karmic Issues
An important part of Buddhist practice is spiritual inquiry. Buddhism teaches us that there are underlying reasons for every selfish and neurotic thing we do, and that we can discern what those reason...
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