Secular Buddhism
Don't use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist. Use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are.
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- Update frequency
- every 18 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 215
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
172 - Practicing Acceptance
Psychological acceptance is "the active embracing of subjective experience, particularly distressing experiences." In this episode, I will discuss practicing acceptance and using the OODA loop as dec…
00:33:45 |
Sun 25 Sep 2022
171 - How To Feel Whole And Complete
Something whole is comprised of ALL its undiminished parts or elements. We are a combination of our body and mind (hardware and software). The key to feeling whole is to understand and embrace all of…
00:43:44 |
Sun 28 Aug 2022
170 - The Five Remembrances
The 5 remembrances are wake-up calls that help us to see more clearly, the nature of reality. They are wake-up calls that help us to live more intentionally and skillfully.
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00:41:45 |
Tue 28 Jun 2022
169 - 84000 Gates
In this episode, I will share my thoughts about the 84,000 gates and the notion of Emptiness. In the last 2 episodes, I shared my thoughts around Signlessness and Aimlessness and now I will share my …
00:29:27 |
Sun 22 May 2022
168 - Signlessness
The three doors of liberation refer to Formlessless, Signlessness, and Aimlessness. In this episode, I will talk about signlessness and what this teaching means to me and how we can practice signless…
00:26:21 |
Tue 26 Apr 2022
167 - Aimlessness
The three doors of liberation refer to Formlessless, Signlessness, and Aimlessness. In this episode, I will talk about Aimlessness and what this teaching means to me.
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00:30:20 |
Tue 12 Apr 2022
166 - Welcoming The Unwanted
Craving for and attachment to feelings is what leads to suffering; on the flip side of that, awareness and understanding of our feelings can lead to Enlightenment. In this episode, I will share my th…
00:23:47 |
Sun 06 Mar 2022
165 - Unlearning
"A student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something every day." What does it mean to "unlearn"? In this episode, I will share my thoughts around the notion of learning and unlearning in the context of …
00:18:06 |
Sun 20 Feb 2022
164 - Thrown Out Of The Nest
One of the final teachings the Buddha gave, had to do with becoming an island unto yourself. In a way, he was telling his followers that it was time to leave the nest and to take refuge in themselves…
00:21:00 |
Mon 07 Feb 2022
163 - Sticks And Stones
In this episode, I will talk about the story of Sundari, an ascetic who was killed in an attempt to frame Sidhartha and bring dishonor to him and his followers. How the Buddha handled this ordeal she…
00:33:00 |
Sun 16 Jan 2022
162 - The Games We Play
The games we play...some thoughts about Right View. Thich Nhat Hanh says: "Our happiness and the happiness of those around us depend on our degree of Right View. Touching reality deeply -- knowing wh…
00:18:30 |
Sun 02 Jan 2022
161 - The Backwards Law
The backwards law proposes that the more we chase after something, the more difficult it becomes to catch it and the more disappointed we feel. In other words, the harder we try, the less likely we a…
00:21:03 |
Tue 14 Dec 2021
160 - Gratitude And Patience
In a culture that tends to feel gratitude for only the pleasant things in our life, the Buddhist approach is to feel gratitude for all things, even the unpleasant ones. Gratitude develops patience an…
00:18:10 |
Sun 28 Nov 2021
159 - When Things Fall Apart
The nature of reality is that things come together and things fall apart and then things come together and things fall apart and that cycle goes on and on. Instead of running from the difficulties an…
00:15:00 |
Sun 21 Nov 2021
158 - I See You Mara
Mara is "the personification of the forces antagonistic to enlightenment." Mara wants to be feared. We tend to run from the things that we fear, but what happens when we stop running and we look at M…
00:22:35 |
Sun 31 Oct 2021
157 - This Is Because That Is
Dependent Origination is a Buddhist notion that is common among all schools of Buddhism. It's the doctrine that states that all phenomena arise in dependence upon other phenomena. In other words, "th…
00:21:43 |
Mon 25 Oct 2021
156 - Circle Of Skills
Within any given discipline, we all have a circle of skills. In order to grow the circle of skills, we need to do things that are just outside the circle and once we master a new skill, that circle g…
00:18:44 |
Mon 11 Oct 2021
155 - The First Meditation
In this episode, I will talk about "The First Meditation" a story about an experience that Siddhartha (the Buddha) had when he was 9 years old. I believe this experience shaped his understanding of t…
00:17:40 |
Wed 22 Sep 2021
154 - Taking The Long View
It can be easy to get caught up "in the thick of thin things" when our perspective is too narrow or zoomed in. When we take the long view, we learn to zoom out and see things from a different perspec…
00:16:29 |
Mon 23 Aug 2021
153 - The Beauty Of Not Knowing
Zen Master Seung Sahn said "I do not teach Buddhism. I only teach don't know." The beauty of not knowing arises when we understand that reality is unknowable as a complete picture. First, because it'…
00:22:47 |
Fri 06 Aug 2021
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