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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 50: Who am I? Who do I want to be?

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/09/21

Like two wings of a bird, the Buddhist Spiritual path has two essential parts: wisdom and compassion. All the teachings of Buddhism help us to develop and refine these two qualities. Also, we can use wisdom or compassion to help us to work on our problems, like anger, anxiety or an attachment causing us great pain. In this episode, we look at wisdom and compassion and ask ourselves, Who am I? Who do I want to be? Wisdom realizing emptiness is realization that leads to enlightenment. Buddha taught

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Episode 49: How to Purify Bad Karma

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/09/12

The world that appears to us depends upon our mind: our mental habits, our views and beliefs. In this episode, Buddhist Teacher, JoAnn Fox, talks about how to purify our mind and specifically how to purify our negative karma. We can create a new mind and a new world by purifying negative karma and taking positive actions toward creating the life we really want. Karma means action. Actions that caused harm to others in the past create our present painful feelings and experiences. We can purify the

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Episode 48 - Everything is Perfect

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/09/09

In the last few episodes, we have been looking at the basics of Buddhist tantric practice. In this episode, we try to get a taste of the experience of emptiness— the true nature of reality. The correct view of emptiness is one of three prerequisites for the practice of Buddhist tantra (in addition to renunciation and bodhicitta.) Over time, we try to develop this correct view of emptiness which allows us to experience this world as perfect and all living beings as perfect. Like a rainbow appearing

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Episode 47: Dedicated to the Ones I Love

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/09/02

How a person functions in this world and whether they appear to be a good person or not, depends upon the intentions that most often pervade their mind. This is because intentions cause actions. What is the highest intention a human can have? Only the most benevolent intention can create actions so powerful it can radically transform us. In this episode, we look at a human’s ultimate potential and the intentions that ripen it. It’s easy to do what is not good And things that harm oneself. It’s

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Episode 46: Definite Emergence

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/08/26

The three principal aspects of the Buddhist Path are the prerequisites for the practice of Buddhist tantra. These three are renunciation, bodhicitta and the correct view of emptiness. In this episode, we look at the mind of renunciation. The Tibetan term for renunciation is translated as “definite emergence”. What are we emerging from through this practice? We emerge from dissatisfaction and suffering. If you look up renunciation in the dictionary, the definition is something like, “ to formally

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Episode 45 - Tantra Part 2

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/08/19

Buddhist Tantra is a set of methods to quickly attain realizations of the true nature of reality (emptiness), universal compassion and great bliss. In this introduction to tantric practice, Buddhist Teacher, JoAnn Fox shares some of the fundamentals of the two stages of tantra: generation stage and completion stage. In generation stage, we imagine dissolving our ordinary sense of self and all our ordinary appearances into emptiness. We try to have some taste--some wisdom experience--of emptiness

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Episode 44: Introduction to Tantra

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/08/10

Buddhist tantric practice is a method for quickly gaining realizations like great compassion and wisdom. In this episode, we explore the stage of tantra in which imagine our self as an awakened being. Called generation stage tantra, this is a technique for becoming more and more familiar with the thoughts and actions of an enlightened being until awakening is actualized through much-repeated practice. Ultimately tantra is a quick method to realize emptiness and compassion for all living beings. In

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Episode 43: Why the Laughter, Why the Joy?

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/08/05

The root cause of all our suffering that we do not take enough time, through mindful observation, prayer, and meditation to come to know ourselves -- our true, awakened nature. Our true nature is wisdom and great love and compassion. We contemplate death and impermanence as a way to relate to our true nature, which is more than this body and this life. We are a traveler, bound beyond this life. If we can relate to our deeper, spiritual self, we naturally want to care for it. How do we care for our

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Episode 42: The Bodhisattva's Perfection of Patience

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/07/28

As we conclude the chapter called "Violence" in the Dhammapada, we look at the perfection of patience. What makes this practice of patience a 'perfection' is that it is motivated by bodhicitta. Bodhicitta is the spontaneous wish to attain enlightenment motivated by great compassion for all living beings. A person who has this motivation of bodhicitta is called a bodhisattva. We try to become familiar with the following practice of the perfection of patience this week: Notice when unpleasant

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Episode 41: Forgiving ourselves, forgiving others

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/07/22

Webster's Dictionary defines forgiveness as: "To cease to feel resentment against on account of a wrong committed." Resentment is the continuation of anger. When we think of some harm that was done to us and we dwell on it, causes us to get angry again. In this way resentment keeps the pain with us. It is like someone stabbing us once, and then we keep reopening the wound. Forgiving means putting down that burden of anger and resentment for ourselves. Ultimately it is an inner process of freeing

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Episode 40: Anger Management 101

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/07/14

Sometimes anger comes quickest, harshest and most easily with those we love or care about. Unfortunately, with those we love anger can do the greatest harm and wounds made with our words may last for a long, long time. In this episode, we learn what anger is, it’s function, and what causes it We also practice a mindfulness technique to prevent anger from arising. The process that causes anger: We encounter a situation or person that is irritating or painful And unpleasant feelings start arising in

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Episode 39 - Practicing non-violence

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/07/08

The practice of non-violence Buddha explains in the chapter of the Dhammapada called “Violence” refers to abandoning both the killing of living beings and the violence of our speech. Sometimes we harm other people most with our speech. Unlike a physical wound, hurtful words may cut a person throughout their whole life. Our words our very powerful. As people create their self (a mere perception), unkind words can shape their identity. Non-violence means to not harm or

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Episode 38 - Actions Create Self

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/06/29

The word “karma” literally means action. Fundamentally, Buddha explained that karma is the law of cause and effect; from actions of our body, speech and mind come results. Yet it is not as simple as saying that from an action of giving comes the result that others will give to us in the future. That will happen, but that action of generosity also changes us. Our actions condition us, shape us, and create our future personality, body, and the environment we will live in. Actions not only affect

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Episode 37: The Mirror of Karma

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/06/23

The Law of Karma--as explained by the Buddha--is complex, and yet any understanding that leads to belief will steer our actions in a positive direction without much effort. This is why it is so beneficial to try to grow our belief and mindfulness of karma. In this episode, we look at how to practice mindfulness on karma in daily life. There is also a simple practice given to help us purify our karma. Hasten to do good; restrain your mind from evil. He who is slow in doing good, his mind delights

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Episode 36: Malfunctioning Labels

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/06/15

The most liberating of all the Buddha’s teachings are said to be his teachings on the Two Truths: Ultimate Truth and Conventional Truth. In this episode, we try to understand these two truths a little, and then put them into practice to free our mind of something that currently causes us pain or difficulties. The two truths explain the real nature of reality, as opposed to how we normally perceive our reality. Conventional truth tells us how our conventional, day-to-day, world truly works

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Episode 35: The Way of the Spiritual Warrior

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/06/10

In this episode, we explore what it means to be a spiritual warrior. We look at what Buddha described as the real enemy of living beings is and how we can help all living beings. Buddha taught that our only real enemy is our mental afflictions, such as our habits of anger, attachment, jealousy and selfishness. These destroy our inner peace and cause us to harm others. As the Buddhist Master, Shantideva, said: “Enemies such as hatred and craving Have neither feet nor hands, And are neither brave nor

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Episode 34: Beginning a Meditation Practice

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/06/03

In this episode we explore how to start a daily meditation practice and the basic mechanics of meditation. Many people misunderstand meditation, thinking we are trying to empty our mind of thoughts. Good luck with that! :) There are several different types of meditation, such as breathing meditation, analytical meditation and tantric meditation. In this episode, you’re encouraged to try a ten minute daily meditation this week. The meditation will begin by watching your breath to calm the mind. Then

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Episode 33 - Purify Negative Karma for Your Future Self

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/05/27

In this episode we look at how to create a new mind and a new reality for ourselves by purifying negative karma (previous thoughts and actions) and taking positive actions toward creating the life we really want. Meditation on Your Future Self with an Emphasis on Purifying Negative Karma Imagine your future self (with some profound change for the better). Feel it, experience it vividly. Imagine how wonderful it will feel to accomplish this and how it will benefit others too. Power of Release

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Episode 32: Meditation on Your Future Self

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/05/12

The meditation on your future self is intended to help us create a new reality for our self. It combines imagining a new, freer, happier version of yourself and the purification of your karma (previous thoughts and actions). This meditation also helps us have some experience of the emptiness of our self, rather than intellectualizing the subtle concept. You begin by deciding what amazing new way of being you want to bring about, such as going back to school, getting fit etc. You can also choose a

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Episode 31 - FREEDOM

Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox ·

2019/05/04

This episode is about FREEDOM: freedom from sorrow giving others freedom freedom from the past In other words, we look at how to lessen our habit of attachment. This exploration of attachment is in the context of an ordinary, modern life with marriage, children, jobs and family. Attachment is a habit of mind, like anger and jealousy are habits of mind. Attachment is the habit of viewing something as a cause of our happiness and then feeling that we need it in order to be happy. Attachment is not

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