Mangala Shri Bhuti - The Link

Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. Rinpoche advises how we can use the pandemic to enrich our practice with prayers and aspirations to end the suffering this sickness is causing the world. He describes what he is personally doing to help.

Speaker: Okabayashi Katsutochi. Oka-san conveys how being a practitioner brings the joy of discovery, the ability to apply the dharma to all situations, more confidence and a sense of appreciation and freshness.

Speaker: Valeska Agasto. Valeska contemplates the lessons presented by the current period of sheltering in place during the coronavirus pandemic and how to bring the Dharma into practice at this time.

Speaker: Will Prunkl. Will reflects on how cultivating integrity and discipline allows freedom from habit and conceptual mind to arise.

Speaker: Judy Montgomery. Judy shares how she practices vigilant introspection, mindfulness, acceptance and intention to apply the teachings to her experience.

Speaker: Hillary Campbell. Hillary describes how she experiences and explores her thoughts fully in order to transform painful feelings and clarify obscurations.

Speaker: Joey Waxman. Joey suggests ways we can apply the Dharma to shift our perspective about and our relationship with the problems that confront the country and the world.

Speaker: Peter Lauritzen. Peter reflects on how suffering offers a precious opportunity to open the mind and heart and to cultivate appreciation for and faith in the Dharma.

Speaker: Greg Seton. Greg offers an in-depth explanation of the three wisdoms (study, contemplation, and meditation) and explains why training in each is vital to effective practice of the Dharma.

Speaker: Fredi Kaufmann. Fredi reflects on how relating our own experiences to the life story and teachings of the Buddha helps us to cultivate wisdom, tsewa, and happiness.

Speaker: Katarina Bergh. Katarina talks about what caring for animals has taught her about the Dharma.

Speaker: Mary Newton. Mary muses about how to work with the experience of not knowing.

Speaker: Kate Keach. Kate discusses what it means for her to be a practictioner of the Buddhadharma from the points of view of conventional and spritual wisdom.

Speaker: Andy Wasserman. Andy explores the four thoughts that turn her mind toward the dharma.

Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. For the new year, Dungse-la advises us to reflect upon our past year using the Four Thoughts That Turn the Mind Toward the Dharma as our guide, then make our new years aspirations based upon bodhicitta.

Speaker: Scott Gallagher. Scott explores the topic of tsewa, and how holding grudges act as an impediment to having a tender, open heart.

Speaker: Chris Parmentier. Chris offers rich stories that illustrate how to walk the line between opposites with openness and equanimity.

Speaker: Pat Noyes. Pat describes her progression from initially being resistant to letting go of thinking to closely watching her mind, even in extreme situations.

Speaker: Frank Allen. Frank explores obstacles to practice, one being a low sense of self worth.

Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la adresses how we need to approach our practice with a sense of balance and use self reflection to determine when we are pushing ourselves too hard or not hard enough.