From the Pure Land Podcast
Impermanence is a core concept of Buddhism, so we understand that our lives can end in the next moment. But it took me 78 years of life and roughly four decades of practicing Buddhism to realize that I'm already in the Pure Land. Come join me there.
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- 2024 - 2025
Interview: Dr. Dominique Side
I couldn’t be happier with this first From the Pure Land interview—except that:
* There’s a weird silence at the beginning.
* Toward the end, you’ll hear a quotation from the Dalai Lama read twice, but…
Politics and Religion Don't Mix, Except When They Do
As a Buddhist blogger, it’s essential to maintain my equanimity. I know that life is perfect as it is because it is shaped by causes and conditions, and there could be no other way. And I know that e…
Taking What's Broken and Giving What's Whole
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with a lacquer mixed with powdered gold. The image came to me as I considered a brief way to describe tonglen, the Tibetan Buddhist meditation…
No, I Won't Obliterate My Real Enemy
I’m about to give vent to my contrarian side. Before I do, though, let’s consider what civilization was like when Gautama Buddha began teaching and as Buddhism spread throughout South, Southeast, and…
Finding Equanimity in a Troubled World
Equanimity…is the quality of heart that balances the movement of the heart with wisdom. Equanimity allows us to care, while also owning the limits of that care…. It is not detachment, because our hea…
The Nature of Mind Is Beyond Words
No words can describe it No example can point to it Samsara does not make it worse Nirvana does not make it better It has never been born It has never ceased It has never been liberated It has never …
Finding Your Island of Refuge
I won’t claim that I invented the meditation I’m about to guide you through. It’s adapted from other sources. For example, here’s a video of an hour-long dharma talk called “Taking Refuge in the Isla…
How to Become Enlightened in This Lifetime
After three decades of practicing Theravada (foundational) and Mahayana (second wave) Buddhism, I was still confused about one thing. As far as I could tell, every form of Buddhism teaches that all b…
Guided Meditation--The Five Touchings
In the 1980s or ‘90s, Thich Nhat Hanh and his longtime companion, Sister Chan Khong, turned a ritual called the Five Prostrations, with roots in Theravada Buddhism, into a profoundly healing meditati…
Love Is a Many-Faceted Thing
The perfection of loving-kindness is the wish to provide for the welfare and happiness of the world, accompanied by compassion and skillful means; literally, it means benevolence. —Insight Meditation…