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Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox

JoAnn Fox: Buddhist Teacher

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox is a bi-weekly podcast that shares how to put the teachings of Buddhism into practice to be happier, more peaceful, or to become the spiritual warrior this world so desperately needs. JoAnn Fox has been teaching Buddhism for over 20 years and does so with kindness and humor.

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Episode 68 - How To Develop Love For All Beings

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2020/02/15

This episode is devoted to the meditation of loving-kindness, a profound method to develop love for all living beings. It creates immeasurable good karma, diminishes ill will toward others and creates the cause of our own enlightenment. Scientific research has also been done on the results of people practicing this meditation. Research indicates these benefits: Increases positive emotions. One study showed that seven weeks of practicing the loving-kindness meditation increased multiple positive

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Episode 67 - Kindfulness

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2020/02/08

To bring more joy and lessen the stress in our lives, we can turn to the practice of kindfulness. Mindfulness, the conscious awareness of our thoughts and intentions, tuned into ways to be kind to others is ‘kindfulness.’ First coined by the monk Ajahn Brahm, kindfulness is a gentle way to more align our life with the law of karma. According to the law of karma, every act of kindness creates the cause for our own future happiness. Being kind usually makes us feel pretty good in the moment too!

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Episode 66: How to Practice Contentment

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2020/02/02

For many, the practice of contentment is a completely new idea. Learning, practicing and becoming good at contentment means we come to enjoy our life more and more. In this episode we discover how to practice contentment with ourselves, other people, and our life. Link to the Character Strength Survey mentioned, https://www.viacharacter.org Health is the foremost possession, Contentment, the foremost wealth, Trust, the foremost kinship, And Nirvana, the foremost happiness. —Buddha, The

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Episode 65 - Radiate Peace

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2020/01/18

What if we could tune our body and mind, like a fine instrument, to peacefulness? What if we could be calm, relaxed and peaceful all the time? In this episode we return to a simple, effective mindfulness practice to de-stress. We also try to strengthen our motivation to become a peaceful person beyond ourselves alone. Mindfulness Practice to De-stress Aspire to become a calm and peaceful person, even in challenging situations. Try to be mindful of whether you’re feeling calm and when you

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Episode 64 - Ready to De-stess?

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2020/01/11

Almost everyone wants to be less stressed and more peaceful. Even as our modern world ramps up the external stressors, we can learn to make ourselves calm and relaxed. The Buddha said, “there is no happiness higher than peace”. This episode guides us through a simple process to become more peaceful and to de-stress. Mindfulness Practice to De-stress Aspire to become a calm and peaceful person, even in challenging situations. Try to be mindful of whether you’re feeling calm. Notice when you start

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Episode 63 - The Buddhist Way to Reach Goals

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2020/01/04

1,200 years ago, the Buddhist Master Shantideva offered a Buddhist approach to lasting change in his Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life. The four powers of effort can be used as steps to making a specific change reaching a goal. The Four Powers of Effort Aspiration. A strong wish (aspiration) is a fundamental basis to accomplish an important goal. The most powerful wishes comes when the outcome is meaningful to us and is an expression of our values. Living in accordance with our values is a

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Episode 62 - Practicing Emptiness and Karma

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/12/28

Within a series of episodes on happiness, we look at how to de-stress. First, we can become mindful of emptiness as an antidote to stress. We can also try to “always do our best” to loosen the grip that busyness has on us and become less attached to outcomes. To always do our best can also mean that we look honestly at where our own ethics or beliefs don't line up with our actions. For a happier and more peaceful life, we can become mindful of emptiness and practice always doing our best. Ah, so

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Bonus - List of Benefits of Cherishing Others

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/12/23

The Benefits of Cherishing Others Cherishing others is the cause of all happiness. Good karma is the root cause of every moment of pleasure or happiness, from wealth and beauty to a moment enjoying a magnificent sunset. For example, we gave to others in the past and that created the karma for us to have enough resources in this life. Why did we give to others in the past? Because we cherished them and felt their happiness was important, we gave to them to alleviate some need they had--like

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Episode 61 - Happiness 101

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/12/14

How can we be truly happy? We may wonder if it’s even possible. Buddhism is a more scientific study of the mind and offers a path to happiness. As we study the chapter called Happiness in the Dhammapada, we look specifically at how to be happy and uproot what causes us misery in our lives. Thus, there is a two-fold solution: address what causes us unhappiness and create the causes of future happiness. This episode explores both and offers a mindfulness practice to lift the mind up and create the

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Episode 60 - A World Without Hatred

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/12/09

The first person harmed by anger is oneself. The Buddha said that harming others in anger is like thrusting a burning torch at another person, but doing it upwind, so that the flames blow and scorch our own face. In this episode we look at an antidote to anger, the practice of loving kindness. Lovingkindness is the intention that wishes another to be happy. A prayer of loving kindness is “May you be happy, may you be free [from suffering]”. In this episode we meditated on loving kindness in three

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Bonus - The Bodhisattva Prayer

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/12/02

The Bodhisattva Prayer May I be a protector for the protectorless A guide for those on the path A boat, a raft, a bridge for those who wish to cross the flood May I be a light in the darkness A resting place for the weary A healing medicine for all who are sick A vase of plenty, a tree of miracles And for the boundless multitudes of living beings May I bring sustenance and awakening Enduring like the earth and sky Until all beings are freed from sorrow And all are awaken —by Shantideva,

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Episode 59 - Opening our hearts to all living beings

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/11/23

We’ve been working for our own happiness our whole lives. Every action we’ve taken has been to create or restore happiness. If we have put all this effort into a singular objective—our own happiness—and we are still not happy and satisfied, then we must be using the wrong methods. The Buddha taught that our obsessive self concern, which seeks our own happiness alone, actually destroys the causes of happiness. Instead the Buddha advises that we open our heart and start working for the happiness of

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Episode 58 - The Four Noble Truths

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/11/16

The Buddha taught The Four Noble Truths to show people a path to lasting peace and happiness. Buddha, like universal doctor, diagnosed why we suffer and have dissatisfaction. The prognosis is good, for there is a cure. The cure lies in the Eightfold Path, a noble, wise and compassionate way of life. This episode offers a mindfulness practice on the right intention, part of the Eightfold Path. The Four Noble Truths The Truth of Suffering The Origin of Suffering The End of Suffering The Path

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Episode 57 - Real Refuge or False Refuge?

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/11/11

We’re always going to refuge to something to solve our problems or alleviate our suffering. We’ve been doing this our whole life. We might take refuge in drugs, wealth, another person or food. But these are ‘false refuge’ because they do not provide lasting satisfaction and can even cause more problems. Buddhism speaks of another type of refuge. Traditionally, taking refuge in Buddhism means to turn to the 3 jewels to solve our problems and pain: dharma (the teachings), sangha (spiritual

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Episode 56 - The promise and the problem

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/11/04

This week we try to practice and improve our patience.The practice of patience is to keep a peaceful state of mind by accepting things as they are— having given up the idea that things should be other than the way they are. Further, this week we will try to untie a knot in our life, something that continuously causes us to become unpeaceful. Will do this by trying to accept the situation and changing the way that we view it. The opposite of patience, anger, arises when we experience unpleasant

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Episode 55: Karma Cleanse (no blame)

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/10/27

Whenever we patiently except some suffering, pain or irritation we purify karma that created it. To mindfully harness the power of this process, we can do a karma cleanse. The karma cleanse described in this episode requires we fast from blame—no blame for one week. In particular, we refrain from blaming any living being. It might appear to us that the source of a problem is something a person did or said. But problems are inside our mind; they are not outside of our mind. What is patience

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Episode 54: Do no harm

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/10/20

The teachings of Buddha show us how to develop habits of happiness and peace. By practicing mindfulness we can train our mind and become anyway we want. No matter how confused, lonely, anxious or angry we are habitually, we can change. In this episode, we look at a verse that distill all of Buddha's teaching into three practices: Do no harm Practice what’s skillful Purify your mind The great Tibetan Buddhist Master Je Tsongkhapa, explains how to practice mindfulness, "examine your physical, verbal,

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Episode 53: End craving. Choose peace.

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/10/11

The habit of attachment gives rise to craving, and craving robs us of our inner peace and happiness in the most deceptive ways. Attachment is on of the main mental afflictions Buddha described. The afflictions of anger and jealousy obviously steal our peace, but attachment might seem like it is creating happiness! An affliction is defined as a metal habit that, when it arises, disturbs the mind. To eliminate afflictions, you must know the afflictions’ faults, characteristics, remedies, and the

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Episode 52: Be the gift, the blessing, the miracle

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/10/06

In Buddhism, generosity is defined as the virtue of a generous attitude and any physical and verbal actions motivated by this intention. Thus, generosity is fundamentally a state of mind. Our goal would be to completely condition our mind to giving. It is conditioning our mind to wish to be the gift, the blessing, the miracle for other living beings. The practice of generosity entails generating, in various ways, the intention to give and steadily increasing this generosity, even though you may not

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Episode 51: the Power of Your Words

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/09/29

Our speech can create the most beautiful, peaceful life if we are mindful to speak with kindness and wisdom. If we lack mindfulness of our words, we can cause another to believe something negative about themselves that they carry their whole lives. We might end a long friendship with only a few sentences motivated by anger. in the episode, we learn how to become mindful of our words and purify our speech of four downfalls. This can change our lives so completely. Where there was once drama and

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