Diggin' the Dharma
By Jon Aaron and Doug Smith
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Mar 4, 2025
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Diggin' the Dharma with Jon Aaron and Doug Smith is a relaxed discussion of the Buddhist dharma between friends. Jon's interest centers around practice, while Doug's centers around scholarship of the early material, so their approaches balance practice with study. Their discussions will be approachable to a broad audience of Buddhists and those curious about Buddhism, and they welcome questions and comments. Jon is a teacher at Space2Meditate and NY Insight Meditation Center and a well known teacher and trainer of teachers of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. Doug has a PhD in Philosophy and runs Doug's Dharma on YouTube and the Online Dharma Institute, where he gives courses on early Buddhism. Find them at: https://digginthedharma.com/
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Practicing for Wisdom
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May 03, 2026 |
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Practicing With Language, Languaging Practice
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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Finding Humor in Our Practice and the Teachings
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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Realms of Existence
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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Engaging in Compassion: A Chat with Ben Connelly of the Minnesota Zen Center
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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How Much is Too Much . . . News! Guarding the Sense Doors
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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Walking as Practice: The Buddhist Peace Walk
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Investigating Investigation
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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Taking Refuge in a New Year
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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Finding a Teacher, Relating to Teachers, Being a Teacher
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Practicing Kindness with Guest Bodhipaksa
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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The Secular-Traditional Divide Examined: Four Guys Talk Dhamma | Roundtable with Clear Mountain Monastery
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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Devas, Nagas, Yakkhas, a Halloween Episode
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Getting Lost in Our Stories
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Knowing Equanimity Without Falling Into Indifference
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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Bringing Our Practice to the Hospital
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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Approaching Meditation
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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Many Paths, One Destination. . Working with Different Traditions
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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The Dharma of Independence (Day)
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Gladdening the Mind
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Letting Go Is Hard to Do
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Practice as Refuge and Recharge
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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Practicing Acceptance
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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Guarding the Sense Doors and Practicing with Social Media
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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The Role of Faith or Confidence in Our Practice
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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Silence and Solitude
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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Finding Joy Through Practice
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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Pilgrimage and Spiritual Seekers
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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It's About Time in Buddhism
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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Dharma Chat with Stephen Fulder-- Practicing in Challenging Times
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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Refuge in Practice: Self or Sangha?
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Investigation, Energy, and Joy
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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Conscious of Consciousness
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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Sankharas, What Are They? Volitional Formations/Constructions/etc.?
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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Bringing Our Practice to an Unwanted Outcome
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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Talkin' 'bout feeling (Vedana)
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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The Aggregate of Form: Body and World
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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"Things Aren't as the Seem , Nor are they Otherwise*"-- Perception and Mis-Perception
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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The Fetter of Conceit
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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Disenchantment: It's not really what it sounds like, or is it?
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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A Buddhist View on Forgiveness
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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The Buddha in the Voting Booth 2024
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Is Meditation Dangerous?
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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Renunciation
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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The Value of Silence
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Experiencing Art and Entertainment in the Context of the Dharma
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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The Bodhisattva Ideal
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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Steps Along the Path: The Four Stages of Progress
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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How We Become a Self
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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The Heart Quality Equanimity
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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Letting Go Again: The Unquenchable Thirst
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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More on Letting Go
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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Insights into Insight , and a New Platform
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May 26, 2024 |
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Is Your Livelihood Right Livelihood?
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May 19, 2024 |
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The Question of Internal, External and Both.
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May 12, 2024 |
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Freedom and Free Will
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Truthfulness and Authenticity
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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The Nature of Buddha Nature
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Moving Beyond Craving and Clinging
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Buddhism and the Golden Rule
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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The Heart Quality of Courage
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Papañca! Exactly What it Sounds Like
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Let's Talk More About Meditation
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Coming Back to the Core: Strategies of Right Effort
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Impermanence and the Closing of the Rubin Museum
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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Coming Back to the Core: Knowing Right View
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Coming Back to the Core: Are we Understanding Our Intentions?
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Coming Back to the Core-- The Four Noble Truths (or 3 just now)
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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New Year's Episode: Time Present, Time Past, Time Future-- What is Time Anyway?
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Why Buddhism?
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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Again and Again. . . Rebirth ... and Death
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Miracles, Mindfulness and What the Buddha Said
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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Practicing the Precepts
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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Taking Sides
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Gratitude, Generosity and Thanksgiving
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Developing a Daily Meditation Practice with Guest Bodhipaksa
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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"Did the Buddha Really Say That?" with Guest Bodhipaksa
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Is Karma Collective or Individual?
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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How Do We Know What Response is Appropriate?
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Balancing our Effort in Meditation
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Buddhist Rupas and Other Images: is this idol worship?
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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Let's Talk About the Two Truths
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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Elemental Practice
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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It's All Practice-- or it can be!
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Turning Toward What is Here-- Whether You Like or Not.
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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The Fire Sermon
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Listener Questions and Responses: Non-Judgment, Ethics, and Working with Unwanted Criticism
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Listener Questions and Responses: The Roles of Teachers and Trauma in the Path
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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Dealing with the "Polycrisis"
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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Love but not Attachment
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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Let's Talk about Buddha Nature
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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What Is "Now"? What Was "Now"? What will be "Now"?
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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Speak Kindly and Don't Carry a Stick!
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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Do You Believe in Magic??
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May 28, 2023 |
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The Guardians of the World
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May 21, 2023 |
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Does Memory have a Role in Mindfulness?
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May 14, 2023 |
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Secular Buddhism. . . Is that a thing?
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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What Do You Mean It's Not Mine???
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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Dualism or Non-Dualism, That is the Question
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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What's the Story with Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and the idea of Secular Mindfulness
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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Does Clinging to Our Views Get Us Anywhere?
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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Signposts Along the Way
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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Does Artificial Intelligence have Direct Experience?
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Is AI Sentient?
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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The Benefactors in Our Lives
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Patience and the Patient
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Some Strange (and not recommended) Ways to Practice
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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Where is the Line Between Healthy Desire and Greed?
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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Can Our Mindfulness Practice Help Alleviate Fear?
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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The Fetters that Keep Us from Being Free
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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Support for Your New Year's Resolution to Meditate Daily
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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Embodied Meditation and a Guided Meditation
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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Holiday Book Recommendations and a Retreat
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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What's Up With Our Logo?
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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This Fathom Long Body
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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Post-Thanksgiving Edition- Buddhist Practice and Food
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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Pre-Thanksgiving Episode: Practicing Gratitude
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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Things are Not as they Seem. . . Working with Perception
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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The Buddha Walks into a Voting Booth. . .
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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Musk, Twitter, and Right Speech
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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Is Fame a Route to Happiness or Suffering?
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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The Usual Suspects-- the Five Hindrances
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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The Great Equalizer--the Buddha's Five Reflections
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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Dying Before You Die
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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All of the Pleasure, None of the Clinging
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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Buddhism in the Natural World
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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Generosity- it's more than just giving
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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Q&A with a Listener and Member: Children, Non-attachment, and the Military
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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What Are the Goals of Practice?
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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The Triple Gem and the Refuge it Provides
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Aug 21, 2022 |
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Dealing with Politics in the Buddhist Context
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Aug 14, 2022 |
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Bhikkhu Bodhi and the War in Ukraine: Lessons for Buddhists?
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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"Digital Dharma" one of the topic from The Future Of American Buddhism with Special Guest Upayadhi
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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The Future of American Buddhism? With Special Guest Upayadhi
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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What is Enlightenment Anyway?
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Jul 03, 2022 |
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Finding Joy in the Joy of Others!
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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Compassion-- Is it a quality we are born with?
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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Working with Desires -- the wholesome and the unwholesome
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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The Non-Commandments-- the Buddha's teachings on Ethics
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Jun 05, 2022 |
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The Meditation Industrial Complex- Part 1-- Making a living teaching meditation and dharma
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May 29, 2022 |
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Unconditional Friendliness?- It's a big Ask
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May 22, 2022 |
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Learning How to Respond Appropriately to Tough Situations
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May 15, 2022 |
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Being an Investigative Reporter of Our Own Experience!
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May 08, 2022 |
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So Many Ways to See: The Buddhist Maps for Liberating the Mind
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May 01, 2022 |
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Why do I Take Things so Personally? - More on Non-Self
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Apr 24, 2022 |
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Who Am I Really? The Buddha's teaching on Non-Self
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Apr 17, 2022 |
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Dukkha: I Can't Get No Satisfaction!
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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How Our Lives Change
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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Ignorance---It's not what you think!
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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How Does Anger Show Up in Our Lives
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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Who Are You Calling Greedy?
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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Integrating Mindfulness Into Our Lives
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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What is Mindfulness?
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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Why Meditate?
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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What Are Our Practices?
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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Thich Nhat Hanh and "Engaged Buddhism"
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Feb 06, 2022 |
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What Brought Us to Buddhism
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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What We Like About Buddhism
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Dec 16, 2021 |