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Wisdom Dharma Chats | Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

Please enjoy this unedited recording of our Wisdom Dharma Chat with host Daniel Aitken and special guest Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche. Daniel and Rinpoche celebrated the launch of the 84000 app and discussed:

The importance and challenges of translating the Buddha’s words
How we should think about the Buddha’s original teachings
How modern technology integrates with our practice
How Buddhism guides us through ideas like ignorance (rather than sin) and merit (which brings us closer to the truth)
The role of technology in learning and teaching Dharma
and much more.

Wisdom Dharma Chats | Ven. Bhikkhu Anālayo & Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Please enjoy this unedited recording of our Wisdom Dharma Chat with host Daniel Aitken and special guests Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and Ven. Bhikkhu Anālayo. Daniel, Venerable, and Rinpoche discuss many Buddhist ideas and practices, comparing what different Buddhist traditions have to say about them, including

how the Buddha practiced;
understanding mindfulness across different Buddhist traditions;
the difference between mindfulness and awareness, and how we translate the original terms for these practices;
defining terms like “space” and “emptiness,” and how we think about emptiness;
emptiness and compassion;
and much more.

Resources mentioned in this episode

See a list of Ven. Anālayo’s publications
Learn more about Rinpoche’s books
Book on mahamudra that Venerable mentions: Mahamudra: A Practical Guide by H. E. the Twelfth Zurmang Gharwang Rinpoche
Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation by Ven. Anālayo
Learn more about courses with Rinpoche
10 kasinas
For detailed practical practice discussion of the 16 steps of mindfulness of breathing see Ven. Anālayo’s Mindfulness of Breathing, A Practice Guide and Translations (2019)
See Ven. Anālayo’s books with Wisdom
Listen to our Wisdom Podcast episode with Rinpoche on dharma for difficult times
Listen to the Wisdom Podcast interview with Ven. Anālayo
The Shorter Discourse on Emptiness in the Majjhima Nikaya

Wisdom Dharma Chats | Karl Brunnhölzl (2)

Please enjoy this unedited recording of our Wisdom Dharma Chat with host Daniel Aitken and special guest Karl Brunnhölzl, celebrating the launch of Karl’s book Milarepa’s Kungfu.

Karl and host Daniel Aitken discuss:

the origin of the book’s unusual title,
what inspired Karl to create this book,
why the text explored in the book is so important,
exploring the meaning of view, meditation, and conduct,
the important role of devotion in practice,
shock as a teaching tool,
the meaning of nonconceptuality,
and more.

Karl Brunnhölzl is a teacher, interpreter, and translator in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Originally trained as a medical doctor, Karl studied Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy at the Marpa Institute for Translators in Kathmandu, founded by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche. He is the author and translator of several publications, including Luminous Heart, Gone Beyond, Groundless Paths, The Heart Attack Sutra, and A Lullaby to Awaken the Heart: The Aspiration Prayer of Samantabhadra and Its Commentaries.

Wisdom Dharma Chats | David Nichtern

Please enjoy this unedited recording of our Wisdom Dharma Chat with host Daniel Aitken and guest David Nichtern. In this conversation, Daniel and David discuss

various translations of the word prajna,
what discernment means in practice,
how prajna is free from aggression,
how to develop prajna,
groundlessness and comfort,
how to use the sword of prajna,
and much more.

David Nichtern, founder of Dharma Moon, is a senior Buddhist teacher who has been practicing and teaching meditation for over forty years. He was one of the initial American students of renowned meditation master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and studied closely with him soon after his arrival in the United States in 1970. David is also a business consultant, working with companies to create a variety of offerings integrating meditation in a larger health and well-being context—including for Goldman Sachs, Journey Meditation, Creative Live, True Nature Meditation (Tokyo), Balanced Athlete, The Center for Health & Healing, Om Births, and Kobre & Kim law firm, among others. He has been featured in The New York Times, FOX News, Netflix’s The Midnight Gospel, Huffington Post, the Buddhist Geeks podcast, the Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast, Pete Holmes’s You Made it Weird podcast, and many others. David is the author of the critically acclaimed Awakening from the Daydream: Reimagining the Buddha’s Wheel of Life and his recently released Creativity, Spirituality, and Making a Buck. He mentors individual students both in person and online and leads meditation teacher training programs around the world.

Lung for A Concise Commentary on the Ocean of Definitive Meaning

In this video, H. E. the Twelfth Zurmang Gharwang Rinpoche gives the lung for Bokar Rinpoche’s A Concise Commentary on the Ocean of Definitive Meaning. Gharwang Rinpoche’s book Mahamudra: A Practical Guide provides commentary on this text and guidance for mahamudra practice.

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