Mindfulness from the Heart
This series explores and points to how mindfulness is really a transformation of our hearts and mind and not only our minds. With the exploding popularity of mindfulness, we are using it as a tool to de-stress in order to get something we want, in total opposition to what mindfulness is really all about.
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Episodes
Friday Mar 17, 2023
Friday Mar 17, 2023
The Platform Sutra is a seminal Zen text. It contains the collected teaching by the sixth Patriarch of Zen, Zen Master Huineng. In this talk, he explains that Concentration and Wisdom are ONE. They cannot be separated. He also explains what is 'No Thought' as taught in Zen. #zen #zenmeditation #samadhi #meditation #mindfulness #buddhism
Sunday Feb 19, 2023
Sunday Feb 19, 2023
In this lucid explanation of spirituality, Bhikkhu Buddhadhasa (a 20th century meditation Thai meditation teacher) gives a lucid explanation of how all religions are one and the same - because true spiritual practice is the end of the feeling of a Self (ego).
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Ramana Maharashi, the silent South Indian saint of the 20th century, gives an illuminating talk on helping spiritual seekers to realise their true selves (not the body, five senses, their objects, or the elements of earth, fire, wind, water, air, or space).
Sunday Jan 22, 2023
Sunday Jan 22, 2023
An excellent explanation of what vipassana (insight) or Buddhist meditation really is from the "Essentials of Mahamudra".
Sunday Jan 15, 2023
Sunday Jan 15, 2023
Devotion is one of the most beautiful qualities in religions (provided it doesn't become distorted into bias and something for the ego to use as an excuse to make war). Most religions require devotion to a Creator God. But how does it work in Buddhism, since there is no notion of a Godhead?
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
In the Essentials of Mahamudra, Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche explains the text "Moonbeams of the Mahamudra" in simple terms. In this excerpt, he talks about the causes and hindrances leading to a calm mind.