In this talk Stephen Batchelor muses about the Buddha’s “breakthrough” and his embrace of first…
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The Secular Buddha: Part Three
Guest teacher Martine Batchelor explains how the point of contact between sense and sense object…
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Embodying the Buddha’s Teachings
In this podcast episode, Michael introduces the bodhisattva path and the paramitas. The bodhisattva ideal…
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The Lotus Sutra: Where’s the Love?
In this second talk on the Lotus Sutra Michael provides some background about the role…
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Anger and the “Contentious” Heart
In this Awake in the World podcast Michael talks about anger, the R.A.I.N. practice, and…
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The Five Aggregates
In this Awake in the World podcast guest teacher Norman Feldman unpacks part of the…
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Confronting & Managing Our Fears, Part 2
In this Awake in the World podcast Michael provides some background about the “Fear and…
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The Two Darts: A Buddhist Psychology of Pain
In this Awake in the World Podcast Michael explains the teaching of “The Two Darts”…
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Best of Awake in the World: Gratitude in Jewish and Buddhist Practice
This week we're revisiting a favourite Awake in the World podcast episode. In this talk,…
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Gentle with Each Other, Dangerous Together with Joshua Stephens
Often when we see Buddhist practice put into conversation with radical social transformation, commitments like…
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