Life inevitably includes both change and loss, as well as sources of steadiness, meaning, and connection that endure. In this talk, I explore how we can meet the tangles of everyday life—difficult interactions, stubborn conflicts, painful patterns, and situations we cannot control—without either withdrawing from what matters or becoming consumed by it. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these talks — for free — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-ri...

A priest is exiled to a canal in Babylon on the exact day he should have been ordained in a Temple that no longer exists. Then he sees the machine behind reality — wheels within wheels, four-faced beings, geometry that watches. This isn't the melting world of an acid trip. It's something far more specific, and Rick Strassman gave it a name decades before anyone thought to point it at Ezekiel. Four possible explanations, one real archaeological find, and a Tibetan Buddhist tradition that

For episode 296 Tim Desmond returns to the Metta Hour to discuss his new book series with Sharon.Tim Desmond is a psychotherapist, best-selling author, Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Antioch University, and student of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hạnh, under whom he was ordained into the Order of Interbeing in 2005. Founder of Peer Collective, and co-founder of Morning Sun Mindfulness Center, Tim lives in Oakland, CA, and teaches mindfulness and self-compassion practices to audiences around the world. He

In this episode, Shifu Shengchi asks the question: Will a truly enlightened being think that they are enlightened?Namo Amitabha Buddha 🪷🙏 Namo Amituofo 🪷🙏 🪷 Hai Hui Shan Foundation (Australia) website: https://haihuishan.au 🪷 Official Dharma contents website: https://www.pure-land-buddhism.com

This episode is a talk given by the forest meditation master Ajahn Gunhah Sukakhamo and is titled “The Five Khandas”. It was published as part of Jai Dee - Jai Sabai - Delivery 42. You can find links to the original text in the description below. --- Forest Path Podcast Support the Forest Path Podcast via Ko-fi Chapters (00:00:00) - Introduction to the Talk(00:00:40) - The Five Khandhas Explained(00:02:54) - Impermanence and Letting Go of

Steven Hall, aka Nirosta Steel, has been making ambitious experimental music for more than forty years, though most of it has gone unreleased. This summer, the Indiana label ULYSSA dug through decades of Hall’s archives to put together his first album in years, MY SKYSCRAPER, which quickly rose to critical acclaim. Drawing from his longtime collaboration with Arthur Russell and building on their notion of “Buddhist pop,” the album presents four decades of Hall’s work, spanning folk, disco, and

Each day we highlight a talk given by Phiroz — he gave this one at Dilkusha, Forest Hill, London on 13th March 1981.

What if the spiritual path isn't a smooth coach ride to a "peace hotel" but a rough track hacked through the jungle, and that's exactly what makes it worth taking? With humour and honesty, Paramabandhu shares his own stubborn mental habits, a bodhisattva who swallows poison, and what an hour-long queue for the Bayeux Tapestry taught him about practice, offering a fresh way to walk the path by looking within, looking up and looking around.

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How to engage with inner and outer life in a way that deepens presence, awakens heart and mind, and supports a life of dignity and wisdom.Part 3 of 5 Free guided Buddhist meditation and Dharma practice. Join us live every weekday @ https://sangha.live/daily

Michael reflects on the way that ancient practices immersed in Zen are not only still relevant in today's work life but are key tools to staying grounded and making practice a 24/7 event.Zen at Work Young Urban Zen

A talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu entitled "When a Loved One Has Died"

The Earth is a circuit. Not a metaphor. A real one. Earth's magnetic field drives electricity through rock and water — through fault lines, mineral deposits, underground rivers — concentrating in certain locations, thinning in others. Telluric currents. The planet's own electricity moving through the ground beneath your feet. It does not stop at the dirt. The sky completes the circuit. A plasma shell — the ionosphere — tied to the ground by a hundred lightning strikes per second, humming the whole

In this talk, Peter Doobinin describes how we learn to see clearly into the impermanent, not-self nature of conditioned things.  He explains why it's important to develop these perceptions into the nature of our experience.  And how we move beyond our doubt and, in turn, cultivate conviction in our ability to develop insight.  The talk was given on the fourth night of the April 2026 Eight-Day Retreat at Powell House.NY Dharma:  www.nydharma.org

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Reading this piece reminds me of listening to a piece of classical music. Each movement transitions so skillfully into the next that we are barely aware that we have just entered a new room filled with new tempos and phrasing, all skillfully balanced around the theme of zazen as the bedrock of our lives.Read the Journal while listening

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