SBT - Community
SBT, the Secular Buddhist Tradition, is an international sangha dedicated to the timeless wisdom of the Buddha. A community committed to goodness and improvement, embracing skillful living and a holistic spiritual lifestyle.
Visit us at: SBTonline.org
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 47 minutes
- Episodes
- 195
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
SBT - Teaching on Our True Nature
The Buddha’s teaching on ‘our true nature’ is the single most unique aspect of his teachings and that which clearly distinguishes it from all other forms of Indian thought. This topic, although poten…
SBT - Teaching on Emptiness
Emptiness (Skt. sunyata; Tib. tongpa nyi): Synonymous with voidness, suchlessness, essence-lessness, and identitylessness. The term emptiness pertains to the doctrine that all phenomena, both externa…
Meditation Vs. Vegetation 2
This is the second teaching from our Sunday retreat - Sunday, 25th, 2021
Top 10 Meditation Tips
#10) Put comfort and quality over duration - It’s the quality of your meditation that’s important, no…
Meditation Vs. Vegetation 1
This is the first teaching from our Sunday retreat - Sunday, 25th, 2021
Meditation aspiration
With a deep appreciation for this precious life and a resolve not to waste it,
I now engage in me…
Zoom Teaching on ‘buddha nature’. Sunday, April 4th, 2021
Sunday, April 4th- The topic of this teaching is ‘buddha nature’ The innate potential of all beings to awaken; or the mind’s innate potential for complete clarity; further understood as the emptiness…
Zoom Teaching on Bodhichitta and Mind Training
Sunday, March 28th.
The topic of this retreat teaching is ‘bodhicitta (the mind of awakening) and the practice of ‘Mind Training’ (or as I like to call it ‘Heart Training’) training to become a more …
Zoom Teaching on 'The Four Noble Truths'
Zoom Teaching on The Four Noble Truths - Monday, March 8th
For more on Tharpa’s teachings on The Four Noble Truths download his free texts,
Tibetan Buddhist Essentials – Volume 2 – Page 4 http://te…
Zoom Teaching on ‘Mental Discipline’
Friday the 5th – this short teaching pertains to the first of our ‘Ten Tenets of a Holistic Spiritual Lifestyle’ – ‘develop the mind’.
Free PDF Text: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Is0...
The T…
Audio Text - Secular Buddhism
Secular Buddhism can be understood as an approach to the study and practice of the Buddha’s teachings aimed at clarifying and demystifying them by lifting them out of their presumed religious, mystic…
Teaching on The Four Gifts
The Four Gifts is a daily practice of generosity that can be offered to the world throughout your day. The gifts of your stability, calmness, care, and happiness. Qualities that are contagious and br…
Q&A - What is Stillness
Venerable Tenzin Tharpa is an American Buddhist monk in the Tibetan Tradition who offers a modern and progressive presentation of the Buddha's teachings, favoring a more secular approach. Venerable T…
Q&A - How to deal with guilt?
Venerable Tenzin Tharpa is an American Buddhist monk in the Tibetan Tradition who offers a modern and progressive presentation of the Buddha's teachings, favoring a more secular approach. Venerable T…
Buddhism and politics, awkward bedfellows
Venerable Tenzin Tharpa is an American Buddhist monk in the Tibetan Tradition who offers a modern and progressive presentation of the Buddha's teachings, favoring a more secular approach. Venerable T…
Top 10 Meditation Tips
Meditation aspiration With a deep appreciation for this precious life and a resolve not to waste it,
I now engage in meditation.
With a deep conviction in the vast benefits and importance of this…
Audio Text - Mental Discipline
This content is available for free download in text format (pdf), video (avi), and audio (mp3) at: http://TenzinTharpa.com
Venerable Tenzin Tharpa is a Buddhist monk in the Tibetan Gelug Tradition an…
Audio Text - The Four Gifts
This content is available for free download in text format (pdf), video (avi), and audio (mp3) at: http://TenzinTharpa.com
Venerable Tenzin Tharpa is a Buddhist monk in the Tibetan Gelug Tradition an…
Audio Text - Mindfulness Basics
This content is available for free download in text format (pdf), video (avi), and audio (mp3) at: http://TenzinTharpa.com
Venerable Tenzin Tharpa is a Buddhist monk in the Tibetan Gelug Tradition an…
Teaching on Peeling the Onion
Venerable Tenzin Tharpa is an American Buddhist monk in the Tibetan Tradition who offers a modern and progressive presentation of the Buddha's teachings, favoring a more secular approach. Venerable T…
Teaching on Patterns, Habits, Free Will
Venerable Tenzin Tharpa is an American Buddhist monk in the Tibetan Tradition who offers a modern and progressive presentation of the Buddha's teachings, favoring a more secular approach. Venerable T…
Audio text on Meditation Basics
This content is available for free download in text format (pdf), video (avi), and audio (mp3) at: http://TenzinTharpa.com
Venerable Tenzin Tharpa is a Buddhist monk in the Tibetan Gelug Tradition an…