The House of Inner Tranquillity Podcast
The House of Inner Tranquillity is a Buddhist Insight meditation centre located in south-west England. The centre was established in 1980 for those in search of a practical approach to the Buddha's teaching.
Stripped of ritual and cultural accretions, the path is presented in a manner ideally suited to the needs of the modern westerner. Today, just as in the times of the Buddha, someone committed to truth can travel right to the end of the path and realise the goal of enlightenment.
Countless talks on all aspects of the Buddha's teaching have been given at the Centre over the years. We have created these weekly podcast programmes as a way to make some of these talks available to a wider audience.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 182
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
S3 Ep10: "Other Dimensions" by Paul Harris
The Buddha taught that there are many more realms and dimensions to life than just the human. Paul describes life as an infinite game of snakes and ladders. Dependent on the kinds of actions we perfo…
00:24:22 |
Fri 13 Mar 2020
S3 Ep9: Discussion Show March 2020
Sally Passfield is a long-standing member of the HoIT community. Together with the Centre's spiritual director Paul Harris they answer some questions posed via social media.
Running order:
00.30 - C…
Running order:
00.30 - C…
00:57:30 |
Fri 06 Mar 2020
S3 Ep8: Vipassana Series: "Knowledge"
We are making the audio files from the House of Inner Tranquillity YouTube channel available. This is a series concerning the practical application of the Buddha's teaching through the development of…
00:20:12 |
Fri 28 Feb 2020
S3 Ep7: "Inner Wealth" by Jacqui James
The main reason for meditating is to become conscious of unconscious areas of mind, in order to understand and let go of habitual patterns of mind that create dissatisfaction. Most people try to find…
00:36:25 |
Fri 21 Feb 2020
S3 Ep6: Vipassana Series: "Views"
We are making the audio files from the House of Inner Tranquillity YouTube channel available. This is the third episode in a series concerning the practical application of the Buddha's teaching throu…
00:30:11 |
Fri 14 Feb 2020
S3 Ep5: "Climate Concerns, Acceptance and Right Action" by Paul Harris
In answering a meditator's question about how to respond to current concerns about the climate, Paul widens the scope to dealing with any view that is based in resistance to unfolding reality. Accept…
00:33:43 |
Fri 07 Feb 2020
S3 Ep4: Discussion Show January 2020
Jason Rebello is a long-standing member of the HoIT community. Together with the Centre's spiritual director Paul Harris they answer some questions posed via social media.
Running order:
1:07 - "Is …
Running order:
1:07 - "Is …
00:41:45 |
Fri 31 Jan 2020
S3 Ep3: Vipassana Series: "Spiritual Maturity"
We are making the audio files from the House of Inner Tranquillity YouTube channel available. This is a series concerning the practical application of the Buddha's teaching through the development of…
00:19:14 |
Fri 24 Jan 2020
S3 Ep2: "The Art of Sacrifice" by Alan James
Alan James founded the House of Inner Tranquillity, along with his wife Jacqui James in 1980. He continued to teach the way to enlightenment until his retirement in 2010.
This talk was originally …
This talk was originally …
00:35:00 |
Fri 17 Jan 2020
S3 Ep1: Vipassana Series: "Introduction"
We are making the audio files from the House of Inner Tranquillity YouTube channel available. This is the first episode in a series concerning the practical application of the Buddha's teaching throu…
00:30:46 |
Fri 10 Jan 2020
S2 Ep33: "Transcendence" by Paul Harris
Most people get caught up in the appearance of things and attempt to get the world to conform to desires and expectations. Paul’s talk guides us through the alternative. Rather than entailing worldly…
00:26:02 |
Fri 20 Dec 2019
S2 Ep32: "Of Men, Mountains and Trees" by Alan James
Two types of truth, conventional and ultimate, are distinguished. Conventional truth is based in generalisation, e.g. 'All men have 2 legs'. Problems can arise from making such truths into laws which…
00:35:14 |
Fri 13 Dec 2019
S2 Ep31: "Relationships" by Jacqui James
Masculine and feminine sides to personality; double messages and super-image; total relationship with oneself needed before possible with another. Recognition that it is the feelings, not the person,…
00:39:16 |
Fri 06 Dec 2019
S2 Ep30: "Spiritual Revolution" by Paul Harris
Looking back at all the revolutions and transformations through which humans have gone, be they cultural, political or technological, we find there are fundamental aspects of life that have not been …
00:32:30 |
Fri 22 Nov 2019
S2 Ep29: "A Joyful Path" by Paul Harris
A video of Tibetan monks playing a game demonstrates how to take joy in the simple things in life. Meditators need that same guileless and unpretentious approach to following a spiritual path. We kno…
00:38:22 |
Fri 15 Nov 2019
S2 Ep28: "Buddha-Dhamma and the Culture of Blame" by Paul Harris
The blame culture has become all pervasive and has led to a very paranoid, cautious society. This talk discusses the need for meditators to understand the dynamics of blame. We need to know why we bl…
00:30:30 |
Fri 08 Nov 2019
S2 Ep27: "Does the Body Rule the Mind...?" by Paul Harris
Is consciousness simply the outcome of chemical processes? Or does the mind condition the arising of physical matter, as Buddhism maintains? These are important questions because the views we hold ab…
00:32:12 |
Fri 01 Nov 2019
S2 Ep26: "The Harvest of Meditation" by Alan James
Buddhism is criticised for being 'pessimistic', yet the Buddha often spoke of joy being in the world. Joy can be relatively coarse (arising from inefficient actions, e.g. hunting) or refined (arising…
00:32:18 |
Fri 11 Oct 2019
S2 Ep25: "Volition" by Paul Harris
Volition is that mental quality that wills experience into being. As such we use it all the time and it is present in every moment of consciousness. Volition is kamma and understanding how it works i…
00:37:26 |
Fri 04 Oct 2019
S2 Ep24: "The Totality of Compassion" by Alan James
Any withdrawal from reality brings suffering. Meditation increases awareness of suffering; one learns that one is responsible - suffering is volitional. The worse the escapism, the worse the sufferin…
00:30:43 |
Fri 27 Sep 2019
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