Send us Fan Mail Sarah Bender Roshi gives her second talk for the Springs Mountain Sangha Retreat, on March 10. * About us: Desert Rain Zen is located in Tucson, Arizona. But almost all our activities take place on Zoom or as hybrid events, so you don't need to live here to practice with us. Desert Rain Zen podcasts are free. If you'd like to support our podcasting and other activities, you can make a tax-deductible donation on our website at https://www.desertrainzen.org/donate.h...

The class opens with the dictionary root of sila, virtue, as a natural rather than acquired way of living, then reads the chapter's turn from how hard a human life is to obtain to how easily it is lost. The line "it is inappropriate to enjoy myself" is taken not as a ban on pleasure but as a warning against frittering a precious life away on enjoyment that serves no liberation. It closes on shraddha, faith, and finds intimacy among its meanings: confidence comes from knowing something in the bones,

July 5 2026 Venerable Moggallāna raises the topic of admonishment, without which healthy community is not possible. He lists a number of qualities that will encourage others to think it worthwhile to admonish you in a constructive way.https://lnk.bio/delsonarmstrong https://delsonarmstrong.com Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center https://www.dhammasukha.org

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If you would like to join live, please visit: SIT CLUBIf you would like to donate to Davin as an energetic exchange for these offerings, please do so here: DONATE -- Born out of the pandemic, Sit Club began in September of 2020 and continues every Sunday morning at 10am CT. Typically an hour in length, an intimate group of all ages, genders and races, from all over the world gathers on Zoom to sit in guided meditation, contemplate a reading and then share in conversation. Each gathering is centered

Questions include: the meaning of sati (and whether the Buddha used the word); the karma of common vices; underwater meditation; the justice of earning wages; becoming less complacent; later Buddhist schools as symptoms of degeneracy; St. John of the Cross on bad meditation; a description of Nibbana; the Srimad Bhagavatam; the USA-Iran war and its protracted length; the new Q&A upload schedule; Buddhism on gambling; making sense of Idealism; humor in Samsara; the ethics of publicly declaring

Each day we highlight a talk given by Phiroz — he gave this one at the Convent of the Cenacle, Grayshott, Hampshire on 25th June 1982.

Life Meaning and Existential Concerns. In this episode, the hosts will tackle the void that many people feel when living a conventional life. They will explain that relying on shifting, impermanent external goals for meaning will always end in frustration because the "goalposts shift all the time." True meaning, they will explore, is created internally by cultivating connection, virtue, compassion, and wisdom. The episode will emphasize that our life's purpose is not defined by our external a...

11.15 The meditation on love has eleven benefits.11.16 Asked by a householder to teach a path to freedom, Venerable Ānanda explains no less than eleven meditative states that may serve as doors to the deathless.11.17 A cowherd with eleven qualities is competent to look after a herd of cattle. Likewise, a mendicant with eleven qualities can grow in the Dhamma.11.18 The Buddha is asked by the mendicants about a deep state of meditation where all normal perception has ceased, but there is still

An exhibition by contemporary conceptual artists reflects the Buddha’sFirst Noble Truth: that suffering is an inescapable part of life. Yet,while the world appears to be undergoing profound change, enlightenedbeings tell us that life is already perfect as it is.In this talk, Paul explores whether the world as conceptualised by themind is truly as it appears, and how our experience of reality isbeing constructed moment by moment. Within each of us lies thecapacity to understand how life works and

Dependent origination is one of the deepest teachings in Buddhism — and also one of the most misunderstood.In this talk, Travis Hicks works through the Buddha's teaching on dependent co-arising, the framework that answers a question the Four Noble Truths point to but don't fully explain: how exactly does suffering arise, and where can we actually intervene?Moving through the chain — from aging and death back through birth, becoming, clinging, craving, feeling, contact, and consciousness — Travis

If you would like to join live, please visit: SIT CLUB If you would like to donate to Davin as an energetic exchange for these offerings, please do so here: DONATE -- Born out of the pandemic, Sit Club began in September of 2020 and continues every Sunday morning at 10am CT. Typically an hour in length, an intimate group of all ages, genders and races, from all over the world gathers on Zoom to sit in guided meditation, contemplate a reading and then share in conversation. Each gathering is centered

Send us Fan Mail In this class, Rev. Chikyo Ryunin Ewan Magie shares the foundational elements of the Buddha Way as expressed in the great range of Zen poetry from ancient China through Japan to the modern West. The complete syllabus is available on our website. Week 2: Chan becomes Zen – form is emptiness, emptiness form. Support the show Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In Part Three of my conversation with my longtime teacher and spiritual friend Sam Bercholz, we talk about the strange and wonderful ways teachers can enter our lives, and how meditation can help us become more receptive to what is already here. We talk about devotion, wakefulness, Buddhist deities, and faith as something we investigate and put into practice rather than simply believe. Highlights: How Sam and I became spiritual friends more than 30 years agoRecognizing a teac...

Each day we highlight a talk given by Phiroz — he gave this one at Dilkusha, Forest Hill, London on 3rd July 1981.

Last week, Shifu Shengchi was invited by Tesla to give a talk and guided meditation at the Tesla Melbourne office. In this talk, Shifu shares practical wisdom on navigating life’s challenges with greater awareness, acceptance and non-attachment — and how to be okay, even when things are not okay. The session concludes with a guided Nianfo meditation to help us let go and find stillness within. May all beings find peace, wisdom and freedom from suffering. ✨🪷🙏Namo Amitabha Buddha 🪷🙏 Namo

We will dedicate this week of practice to meditation with the in and out breath, following the Buddha's careful guidance.In the discourses on practice with the in and out breath, the Buddha offers guidance on important aspects of the path: bringing a kind sensitivity to the body and the breath; developing skill in relation to pleasure and pain; finding nourishment and well-being in the body; discerning helpful and unhelpful mental activity and learning how to calm body and mind; and cultivating

The class continues the chapter on the precious human life, reading that a human life is defined by capacity - the ability to attain either the higher realms or definite goodness - and Atisha's three types of person: the inferior who seeks the pleasures of Samsara, the mediocre who seeks only their own peace, and the superior who wants to exhaust the suffering of others. It takes up virtue as sila, actions that cool rather than heat, and closes with Marpa telling Milarepa that had he finished the

Sunim explains Yebul (from a cassette)