Podcasts about Prajnaparamita

Rev. Oswin Hollenbeck explores Prajnaparamita as the "Perfection of Wisdom", specifically focusing on the 8,000-Line Prajnaparamita Sutra and her personification as the "Great Mother." Rev. Oswin discusses how this foundational Mahayana Buddhist teaching emphasizes transcendent wisdom, emptiness, and the nurturing, compassionate nature of enlightenment. Ultimately, the lecture serves as a guide on how practitioners can understand and embody this profound wisdom in their daily spiritual practice. This talk was given at Shasta Abbey on Sunday May 24, 2026.YouTube: https://youtu.be/woR7EWel1GkTwitter/X: @shastaabbey

Imagine growing up believing that at the heart of existence is a Primordial Mother—and that She is the Earth.For Dekila Chungyalpa, that idea is not metaphor. It's inheritance.In Tibetan Buddhism, the feminine divine appears as Prajnaparamita, or Yum Chenmo—the “Mother of All Buddhas.” As the daughter and granddaughter of nuns, Dekila was raised in a world where spiritual teaching and healing was often female, and where land itself—especially the sacred Himalayan landscape of Sikkim—was alive with presence, meaning, and obligation.Today, she is a global conservationist and founding director of the Loka Initiative, building unlikely partnerships between climate scientists and religious leaders across traditions—from Buddhist monastics to Catholic clergy, Indigenous elders to Muslim clerics and Evangelical pastors. Her work suggests that the climate crisis is not only scientific or political—but spiritual.  — UW: About the Loka Initiative  Loka Initiative website Center for Humans and Nature: Dekila on ecology and the Buddhist concept of interdependence —0:00 Introduction4:05 Sacred Mountains of Sikkim10:20 The Sacred Feminine16:30 Rituals and the Land21:25 Scientist by Day, Buddhist by Night28:25 Bridging Faith and Science Wonder Cabinet is hosted by Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson. Find out more about the show at https://wondercabinetproductions.com, where you can subscribe to the podcast and our newsletter.

Rev. Oswin Hollenbeck continues his lecture series on iconography. In this talk he focuses on how the gender switched from Compassion as male in India to female in China. And how Wisdom switched from female in India to male in China. This talk was given at Shasta Abbey on Sunday March 15, 2026.YouTube: N/ATwitter/X: @shastaabbey

Rev. Oswin Hollenbeck continues his lecture series on Prajnaparamita. In this talk he guides us on an imaginative journey as to how ancient religion might take the respected qualities of a leader and convert them into the iconography we encounter today. This talk was given at Shasta Abbey on Sunday December 21, 2025.YouTube: https://youtu.be/cyBaH2m9Yl0Twitter/X: @shastaabbey 

Rev. Oswin Hollenbeck begins a new lecture series about Prajnaparamita who is the personification of the Scripture of Great Wisdom. This talk was given at Shasta Abbey on Sunday October 12, 2025. YouTube: https://youtu.be/xXxDGtvqRTETwitter/X: @shastaabbey

Bhante Sangharakshita described the Diamond Sutra as one of two books ‘by which I have been most profoundly influenced.' We could see it as the keystone in the central arch of the architecture of his thinking about the Dharma. In this talk, Satyalila introduces the Sutra in its context of the Perfection of Wisdom (or Prajnaparamita) tradition and explores its significance for Sangharakshita, and for us. Talk given on a Bristol Buddhist Centre Sangha Retreat at Adhisthana, 2019. *** Help us keep FBA Podcasts free for everyone! Donate now: https://freebuddhistaudio.com/donate Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dharmabytes-from-free-buddhist-audio/id416832097 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4UHPDj01UH6ptj8FObwBfB YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBuddhistAudio1967  

Rev. Oswin Hollenbeck introduces a new lecture series where he will be exploring the Scripture of Great Wisdom and what it means to us in our practice. This talk was given at Shasta Abbey on Sunday August 17, 2025. YouTube: https://youtu.be/QiLWIqNHqogTwitter/X: @shastaabbey

A talk given at Berkeley Zen Center on Saturday, May 31st 2025 by Mark Copithorne.

In this Wednesday Night concluding talk of the Prajnaparamita series, Kodo explores how these ancient teachings can be brought into everyday life through the practice of deep attention and appreciation. […]

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Short personal introduction to Prajnaparamita, the goddess of wisdom, who sits at the center of the circle of our retreat, along with sky gazing practice instructions and a brief practice period.

Buddhism Reference – Prajnaparamita. One of the vows we take to perfect our Buddha knowledge in the pursuit of Buddha wisdom. This is the clarity of full understanding of all phenomena as it happens. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available   Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm

In the second talk of the series “Darkness as Medicine,” Zenju Earthlyn Manuel begins with Prajnaparamita, an ancient deity representing the perfection of wisdom, often associated with the removal of […]

From the Buddhist perspective, the understanding and realisation of emptiness is the key to liberation from suffering – because the roots of suffering stem from primordial confusion as to the nature of reality – to be free from suffering we need to eliminate ignorance – to eliminate ignorance is to understand emptiness – hence the realisation of emptiness is the ultimate medicine. In this lecture series we are exploring some of the different ways of understanding emptiness found in Buddhism – today we will go into what is called the Madhymaka School or The Middle Way School which interprets the prajnaparamita sutras – such as the Heart Sutra and The Diamond Sutra. Prajnaparamita meaning the perfection of wisdom – where wisdom realises emptiness. Nagarjuna is the founder of the Madhymaka school and he is the first and most influential Buddhist philosopher - later in the series we will move to exploring the Yogacara view on emptiness and explore the question as to whether or not the Madhyamaka and Yogacara Schools are allies or rivals.

Greetings Friends,In the on-going exploration of the Ox-herding pictures, this podcast episode focuses on Kensho—the Japanese Zen Buddhist word for seeing into our true nature, which is the third of the ten ox-herding or bull-herding pictures. The image above is a bull painted in the Lascaux cave in France around 20k years ago. While maybe not as apparent to a modern person, the Ox and bull have a long relationship to human beings and in the history of religion and spirituality.When I first encountered the cave paintings of Lascaux, I was awe-struck. They touch my artistic sensibilities and convey, at least to me, a spiritual intimacy. Painted in the dark, fertile womb of the earth—a cave—the animals within the walls portray a liveliness of both painter and animal. It is as if they share the same spirit.In her article on Enlightenment and Awakening, Zen Buddhist Teacher Joan Sutherland tells a story of Chekhov and Tolstoy as a way of illuminating the insight of a kensho experience, she says:How large is the self softly illuminated by the moon of enlightenment? Tolstoy and Chekhov were on a walk in the spring woods when they encountered a horse. Tolstoy began to describe how the horse would experience the clouds, trees, smell of wet earth, flowers, sun. Chekhov exclaimed that Tolstoy must have been a horse in a previous life to know in such detail what the horse would feel. Tolstoy laughed and said, “No, but the day I came across my own inside, I came across everybody's inside.”She goes on to describe that awakening doesn't belong to buddhists or buddhas saying: Awakening is autonomous, existing before there were humans, or anything else, to experience it. This is personified in Prajnaparamita, mother of buddhas, who holds the universe's awakening, regardless of whether there are buddhas or Buddhist teachings in a particular era. Though I have never met these artists or animals, I feel something of them even 20k after they lived. Could it be that these artists too, knew the mind before thought—the great expanse of prajna paramita? Sitting in the womb of the earth, the radiant blackness of the wisdom mother—they lost themselves as individuals and became tiger, bull, horse—the goddess herself? Portraying their likeness on these cave walls as an act of devotion, a gesture of love?Once I came across my own inside, I came across everyone's inside.In her book on the Image of the Goddess Anne Baring connects these early cave painting cultures to the earliest depiction of a mother goddess that historians are aware of. Wisdom beyond wisdom, need not be gendered for it points to that which is prior to gender, body, form, all dualities—and yet, the metaphor of the great mother captures something essential. From the darkness of this cave-like womb—bull, hand, paint, tiger, woman, voice, body, me, you!We are currently in week one of a 14-week class series I am offering on the Sacred Feminine—as I post this recording on kensho— I am feeling how deeply the two intersect for me. As a Zen practitioner Prajna Paramita—wisdom beyond wisdom—wasn't something I immediately connected with as a feminine deity or mother goddess. Throughout the years of practice, my practice has taken on more of a devotional flavor. As I learned more about the image and history of the goddess, prajna paramita—mother of all buddhas, I feel how her depiction helps me open to the spaciousness, compassionate, freedom of Mind's nature.I have a practice now of embodying the goddess, allowing my body to take the form of prajna paramita, and everything that arises in the space of awareness—body sensations, sounds, thoughts, images, feelings, emotions—are all a manifestation of prajna paramita—wisdom beyond wisdom. Inseparable for the light of awareness.Where have you encountered the goddess?Can you see her—right now?When I look, she is everywhere:In the freedom and play of The Art Ensemble of Chicago and Moor Mother's spoken word poetry. In the oak tree still holding some of his leaves and the babbling creek running gently in spring sun, in the city lights twinkle, and the burgeoning trunk jade plant on my desk—she is everywhere, miss true nature—and gratitude, devotion, wonder and awe arise in this heart when I catch a glimpse of her various forms of compassionate expression.Can you really see her everywhere? In everyone and everything. When my heart trembles in fear, or I feel sadness over the suffering in the world—I invite this inquiry. This too, the wisdom and compassion of our awakened nature. This too, none other than the goddess's compassionate manifestation. This too, the spontaneous expression of the OX. For me, this is a koan worth pursuing.With just one glance of Miss Original FaceStanding there you will fall in love with her. —Zen Master IkkyuEach of the ox-herding pictures has a prose teaching and poem to accompany them. Below is the image, prose and poem for the third picture sometimes called Seeing the OX or The First Glimpse of Self.PROSEThrough sound you gain entry, by sight you face your source. The six senses are not different, in every activity it's plainly there.Like salt in water or glue in paint. Raise your eyebrows—it's just right here.POEMIn the trees nightingales sing and sing againSun warms the soft wind, green willows line the bankHere, there's nowhere left for it to hide,It's majestic head and horns no artist could drawThe recorded talk is commentary on this vital stage of the path, which includes commenting on these teaching points found in the prose and poem. Please enjoy and feel free to comment. I am curious to hear about your experience of Awakening, Prajna Paramita, devotion or anything else that touched you in either this written piece or the dharma talk.This Saturday I will be offering a daylong online meditation retreat exploring the Zen teachings of Shunyata, emptiness—an often misunderstood yet vital aspect of practice-awakening. We will be sharing teachings, guided practice sessions and recordings will be available for anyone who registers. You can learn more here.On Sunday evening 8P ET/5P PT, I will be hosting the monthly online dream drop-in group called DreamSky. Anyone is welcome to attend, click the link to learn more.I feel deep gratitude to be on this path of discovery with all of you!Love,Amy Kisei This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit amykisei.substack.com/subscribe

Elizabeth shares the classic Buddhist narrative of Avaloketeshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion, and asks us to contemplate the story carefully, adding, “because something similar could happen to you.” Continuing her exploration of the self, Elizabeth navigates the common responses to our challenging human experience: fixing, despairing or withdrawing…all of which are rooted in misunderstanding. Elizabeth takes inspiration, instead, from Avaloketeshvara's example to bear steadfast witness to experience.

Subconscious Realms Episode 216 - Tantric Pantheon PT4 - Princess Of Fire & Flowers - Kurukulla - Jin The Ninja. Ladies & Gentlemen, on this Episode of Subconscious Realms we welcome back Jin The Ninja for Tantric Pantheon PT4 - Princess Of Fire & Flowers - Kurukulla.... Jin bringing absolute

This episode is about motherhood in general and my mother in particular, and the sacred nature of the mother and child relationship. At the end I recite the Sutra on About the Deep Kindness of Parents and the Difficulty of Repaying It 

Hola a todos. Hoy vamos a realizar un mantra muy conocido, pues forma parte de uno de los sutras budista más enseñados y utilizados, sobre todo por la tradición del budismo Mahayana. Nos referimos al mantra: GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA, que aparece al final del Sutra del corazón o Sutra del corazón de Prajnaparamita, la Perfección de la Sabiduría o en Entendimiento Perfecto. Este sutra habla de las enseñanzas que extrajo el Buda de compasión, Avalokishtevara, en meditación profunda y del concepto de Sunyata o Vacío. La traducción de Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi svaha es: Ido, ido, ido más allá, completamente ido, !Despierto! ¡Que así sea! La meditación empieza en el minuto: 15:25. Espero que os guste y os sea provechoso. No te pierdas el inicio de nuestro curso de Autoconocimiento, Metafísica y Espiritualidad que comienza el próximo día 3 de marzo a las 19:00 hora española. Informate a través del mail: noesiscentro@gmail.com Si te interesa saber sobre cursos y talleres online, retiros presenciales y todas las demás actividades que realizamos en Centro Noesis, visita nuestra web: https://centronoesis.net Además puedes unirte y participar en nuestro Canal de Telegram, donde realizamos actividades todas las semanas: https://t.me/comunidadnoesis *** Música de fondo: EU Producciones Musicales. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo9jC3iohd3DgPqu3BB1CEA

An episode of almost 12 mins on a Saturday rambling dog walk through the fields in West Penwith, Cornwall.Also singing the Heart Sutra, from the Mahayana tradition which has been so beautiful for me recently and also reminds me of when I stayed in a Buddhist Monastery many years ago... ** I'm not a singer - so my voice isn't the best! :) - this podcast is for confidence around voice and all being perfect just as it is xGate gate para gate para sam gate bodhi swaha (Sanskrit: गते गते पार गते पार संगते बोधि स्वाहा) -  Buddhist mantra  found at the end of the Heart Sutra and included in the Prajnaparamita ('Perfection of Wisdom') section of the Mahayana Buddhist canon. It is also known as the Heart Calming Mantra.It can be translated as 'Go, Go, go beyond, go completely beyond the beyond, such awakening, so great! (hallelujah!) ...in going beyond illusion to true reality. In effect staying as that which Is and not being affected by all that is not.Thank you so much for listening x** - please see the donate button on 'Buy me a coffee' as so happy to find out about this! Any contributions towards coffees, poetry books and cat treats... (& of course the podcast/audio recording/editing costs!) gratefully received x...............................................................................................................................................................................Please see more artwork, articles and info at www.rowenascotney.com Music by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'La Di Da'Artwork by Rowena ScotneyEpisode cover - Gulval fields and sky, photographPodcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - feltingSupport the showSupport the show

Our life - our world - can be rich…and it can also be a bitch.  We walk the terrain of multiple - maybe infinite - grounds.  We move in and out of these overlapping spaces.They are not geographical territories, but rather various ways we encounter our human condition as our mind and its world engage in the playful exchange we call, ‘experience.'

The ‘the six perfections' and ‘the perfection of wisdom' although being a renowned practice of the Mahayana traditions, actually has its roots in original Nikaya Buddhist tradition and can be found in the Pali cannon, taught as ten perfections. However, within the Mahayana, the perfections become foundational, and the central practice of the bodhisattva. The Mahayana's unique presentation of the perfections originates from the Prajnaparamita or Perfection of Wisdom Sutras. Mahayanists assert the perfections as the only practice or training which leads to full buddhahood. Because of this, the perfections are often referred to as ‘the great mother' or ‘the mother of the buddhas', portraying the perfections as the ‘source' or ‘womb' of buddhahood. Venerable Tenzin Tharpa is an American Buddhist monk ordained in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition. Ven. Tharpa offers a modern and progressive presentation of the Buddha's teachings, favoring a more secular approach. Ven. Tharpa is well known for his pragmatic, no-nonsense views, his ability to clarify complex philosophical points for all audiences, and his familiarity with all traditions of Buddhist thought and non-Buddhist traditions as well. SBT – the Secular Buddhist Tradition, is an international spiritual community established by Venerable Tenzin Tharpa. A community dedicated to Secular Buddhism and the timeless wisdom of the Buddha. SBT presents the Buddha's teachings as neither a religion nor an exotic belief system, sharing a practical presentation focused on the positive life-affirming message of the Buddha while emphasizing those aspects that we deem most illuminating, plausible, and fruitful. The aim of SBT is to inform and guide without sharing presumptions of what to believe. For free original Buddhist study material and to learn more about Venerable Tharpa visit his website at: http://SBTonline.org #Buddhism #SecularBuddhism #Meditation #Mindfulness

In Open Question 303, Elizabeth explores the power of words and what it means to go beyond them in the tradition of Prajnaparamita.

"Only when one is free of the projections of the mind can one apprehend what is real." Buddha (Lankavatara Sutra) It is early in the morning here in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. The sun has just come up and there is a spectacular thunderstorm going on. My whole body feels the sound waves as they crack and rumble. It is a total, direct experience. It has passed now and I need to write a blog for the upcoming OM School Live. I had an extraordinary experience. But I could have missed it. I could have analyzed it, thought about how the lightning is static charge build up in the atmosphere, how the thunder is produced by a sonic boom. I could have consulted the weather on my phone to see how long it would last and if I would be able to get to the store later. I could have check a radar map to see the extent of it. I choose to just open the door and feel it, smell it, hear it. All of our analysis, our comparisons, our attempts to domesticate nature are an attempt to reduce the miracle of life to an idea, a picture in an album, a video on YouGoop. In other words, it is the habit of living in the mind instead of in reality. It is never any actual circumstance in our lives that bind us. It is never some person, place, situation or condition. It is always the mind. It is always our beliefs about this moment that put us into that cage. We cannot grow beyond our beliefs. They form the boundary of experience. We don't create beliefs. We acquire them, from family, friends, churches, schools and, tragically, from media, social and otherwise. And, while we do not create them we do ourselves enforce them. There is nothing more powerful than a belief. They shape our perceptions and thus form all of our experiences and relationships. They determine the limits of what is possible. They create right and wrong. But once again I point out. It is we ourselves who are the guards in this prison in which we are held captive. This is what Buddha meant in the quote above. "Only when one is free of the projections of the mind [our unexamined beliefs] can one apprehend what is real." And it says in the Heart Sutra, "...take refuge in Prajnaparamita [what is real] and live without walls of the mind. Without walls of the mind and thus without fears" In a world that is full of trite entertainment and where every event is reduced to a sound bite or a TikTok clip, learning to inquire as to what is real and what is a projection of the mind, is a rather radical undertaking. Challenging the convention wisdom and assumptions, whose fruit is obviously spoiled, takes courage and a new way of approaching our relationship with "the mind." Shall we be its servant? Do we let un scrutinized beliefs create a wall of limitations around us? Or do we claim that utilize the momentous gift of human intellect which, when turned on itself, can break down those walls of the mind, dissolve the cell walls and walk once and for all into a freedom that is self-sustained. Let me offer my definition of freedom that i think sums up what we all in our hearts desire. Freedom is a sense of well being that is independent of all conditions and circumstances Freedom, in order to be truly free, can depend on nothing but itself. You, in order to be truly free, must find the golden key within yourself that opens the prison gate. Then, as you walk through that gate you realize, there never was a gate at all. It was always a wall constructed by the mind and so you leave both the walls and the mind forever. Join us for the next episode of "OM School Live" every Tuesday at 12 noon eastern time. at http://youtube.com/gpwalsh or in the private facebook group https://facebook.com/groups/gpwalsh

Rev. Gyomay Kubose, my teacher's father, wrote about "purposeless purpose." He said: "Too much intelligence or too much efficiency can create trouble. So, we must learn non-intelligence, which is super intelligence." Does that sound nonsensical? Our sangha is studying The Diamond Sutra now and it is filled with reasoning (or non reasoning?) like that. It is the the superpower of the Dharma because the wisdom it contains is transcendent. You can't "get there" from here, by what is normally considered intelligence. You can only get there by learning "non-intelligence", as Rev. Gyomay teaches. My overall word of advice for enjoying being a student of the Dharma is to relax and not try to "figure it out." One of the main points of practicing with the Prajnaparamita sutras is to NOT try and understand it. That is what these sutras are teaching: It's NOT understanding. It's NOT about concepts. It's about living. Support the podcast through the affiliate link to buy the book, Everyday Buddhism: Real-Life Buddhist Teachings & Practices for Real Change: Buy the book, "Everyday Buddhism" Red Pine's translation and commentary of The Diamond Sutra And books from Rev. Koyo Kubose and Rev. Gyomay Kubose: Bright Dawn: Discovering Your Everyday Spirituality Everyday Suchness: Buddhist Essays on Everyday Living The Center Within

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Most spiritual traditions offer teachings on "sacred world"-the promise of a life beyond struggle-the search for a place of ease. This is a noble human quest. And yet, the "sacred" often seems to be a place other than where we find ourselves now. How do we reconcile the tension between the spiritual and temporal aspects of life? This is our conundrum

In this episode Robert Thurman share's his thoughts on the First Turning of the Wheel of Dharma, the holiday celebrations that mark the occasion of the Buddha's initial public teachings and the inherent fun and friendly nature of the wisdom and compassion found in the Four Noble Truths. Recorded on Chokhor Duchen to celebrate the Buddha's Heart Sutra or Prajnaparamita teaching, The Four Noble Truths they contain, and the launch of Professor Thurman's new book “Wisdom Is Bliss: Four Friendly Fun Facts That Can Change Your Life” Available from Hay House on August, 3rd, 2021. This episode explores the Four Noble Truths as a joyful exploration into the nature of reality through Buddha's threefold curriculum of “super-education” and the Eight Fold Path. From the book: "Buddha had to be an educator, rather than a prophet or religion founder, since he had achieved his goal of exact and complete understanding of reality by using reason, experiments to open his own mind, and vision to do so. From his own experience, he could help [others] as a teacher by streamlining the process. He could not just transplant his realization into their minds. They could not get their own realizations just by believing whatever he said. He could only provide them with a prospect of full realization along a path of learning and experiencing they could follow-they would have to travel on their own. This book is your invitation to travel that same road. Deeply felt and bracingly direct, it doesn't teach about the teaching-it is the teaching. Get ready to get real, and have fun along the way, as you chart a path to reliable, lasting happiness." To learn more about "Wisdom is Bliss", Available as a Kindle E-Book and in hardcover through Hay House, Please visit www.bobthurman.com. Four Fun Friendly Facts: Four Noble Truths Thumbnail via www.himalayanart.org.

É o discernimento transcendental que transcende a atribuição de sentido aos fenômenos, os quais não tem sentido em si mesmos. É a visão perfeita da sabedoria que extingue o sofrimento

Reminding everyone to hold bodhichitta in their hearts, Kyabje Drubwang Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche began his third and last day of teaching Tilopa's Ganges Mahamudra, the upadesha or key instructions for the practice of mahamudra. At the start of his talk, Nyenpa Rinpoche reviewed the previous verses and added new commentary. He explained that highly developed adepts could realize the whole text by simply hearing the title. Summarizing the text's meaning at the next level comes in the traditional prostration of the translator: I prostrate to the glorious Vajra Dakini. Here, “dakini” refers to the entire meaning of the verses: the nature that is the ground of mahamudra and the nature that is the path of mahamudra; when these two manifest, the fruition of mahamudra appears. In this way the dakini symbolizes the realization of ground, path, and fruition. According to the teachings of the Kalachakra, “dakini” points to Prajnaparamita, the great mother of all the buddhas. Another way to express this is that no phenomenon transcends the fundamental nature. When the great mother Prajnaparamita manifests, we can see the true nature of all phenomena appearing as samsara and nirvana. Female deities, such as Tara and Vajra Varahi, are displays of the great mother's form. Here the vajra symbolizes the mahamudra of the definitive meaning, which is represented here as the glorious Vajra Dakini. The Student and Teacher The first verse of the Ganges Mahamudra describes students who could practice mahamudra and they have four characteristics. (1) Intelligence is the most important as it allows one (2) to endure hardship, (3) to see the qualities of the guru and therefore have respect, and (4) to bear the suffering that comes with practice, as we engage our body, speech, and mind fully in listening, reflecting, and meditating on the teachings. How we act depends on the conditions around us, and our intelligence allows us to know what makes a condition positive or negative. This is not a mere intellectual knowing but based in the experience of practice. Since Naropa had all four of these qualities, Tilopa gave him all the pith instructions on the banks of the Ganges, saying to his disciple, “I have no human guru. In coming to your own realization, you'll realize the guru.” Today we can meet teachers and discuss the Dharma with them for hours. But this might not be the good fortune we take it to be if we do not develop the power and strength of our meditation. We should be able to go through difficulties. Meeting the Dharma is not like finding gold by chance. It comes from gathering the two accumulations and from karmic connections that extend back for many generations. If we are constructing a tall building, we need a stable foundation. To meet a real guru we need genuine conviction.

Various translations and references used for this episode.Anatta-lakkhana Sutta: The Discourse on Not-self. Parileyyaka Sutta.8000 Verse Prajnaparamita Sutra. Heart Sutra. Mula-Madhyamakakarika, or the Fundamental Verses of the Middle Way by Nagarjuna. Acela Sutta.Heart Advice by Younge Khachab Rinpoche. We look forward to you joining in the conversation at Younge Drodul Ling.Submit a question.     

Lecture location: http://www.riversidechan.org/lectures/Dharma_Talk_20200504.mp3                                        Notes: -          Consider volunteering to transcribe a lecture. It is a great way to deepen your practice. -          This transcription is work in progress. It is transcribed as recorded and no professional editing was performed. -          Links: Gilbert’s Podcast, 

Momente der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens öffnen sich spontan immer wieder. Vielleicht leuchten sie für Sie auf, wenn Sie auf einem Berg stehen und in die Weite der Landschaft schauen. Ist es möglich, mitten im Alltag Zugang zu dieser grundlegenden Herzensqualität zu finden? Stephan Pende lädt ein, Bedingungen zu erforschen, die Nährboden sein können für eine Öffnung in diesen weiten, inneren Raum. Sie werden üben, durch wache und feinfühlige Gegenwärtigkeit zunehmend mit der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens vertraut zu werden. Diese natürliche Gelassenheit und Freundlichkeit mit sich selbst können Sie dann in Ihren Alltag und Ihre Beziehungen bringen.

Momente der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens öffnen sich spontan immer wieder. Vielleicht leuchten sie für Sie auf, wenn Sie auf einem Berg stehen und in die Weite der Landschaft schauen. Ist es möglich, mitten im Alltag Zugang zu dieser grundlegenden Herzensqualität zu finden? Stephan Pende lädt ein, Bedingungen zu erforschen, die Nährboden sein können für eine Öffnung in diesen weiten, inneren Raum. Sie werden üben, durch wache und feinfühlige Gegenwärtigkeit zunehmend mit der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens vertraut zu werden. Diese natürliche Gelassenheit und Freundlichkeit mit sich selbst können Sie dann in Ihren Alltag und Ihre Beziehungen bringen.

Momente der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens öffnen sich spontan immer wieder. Vielleicht leuchten sie für Sie auf, wenn Sie auf einem Berg stehen und in die Weite der Landschaft schauen. Ist es möglich, mitten im Alltag Zugang zu dieser grundlegenden Herzensqualität zu finden? Stephan Pende lädt ein, Bedingungen zu erforschen, die Nährboden sein können für eine Öffnung in diesen weiten, inneren Raum. Sie werden üben, durch wache und feinfühlige Gegenwärtigkeit zunehmend mit der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens vertraut zu werden. Diese natürliche Gelassenheit und Freundlichkeit mit sich selbst können Sie dann in Ihren Alltag und Ihre Beziehungen bringen.

Momente der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens öffnen sich spontan immer wieder. Vielleicht leuchten sie für Sie auf, wenn Sie auf einem Berg stehen und in die Weite der Landschaft schauen. Ist es möglich, mitten im Alltag Zugang zu dieser grundlegenden Herzensqualität zu finden? Stephan Pende lädt ein, Bedingungen zu erforschen, die Nährboden sein können für eine Öffnung in diesen weiten, inneren Raum. Sie werden üben, durch wache und feinfühlige Gegenwärtigkeit zunehmend mit der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens vertraut zu werden. Diese natürliche Gelassenheit und Freundlichkeit mit sich selbst können Sie dann in Ihren Alltag und Ihre Beziehungen bringen.

Momente der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens öffnen sich spontan immer wieder. Vielleicht leuchten sie für Sie auf, wenn Sie auf einem Berg stehen und in die Weite der Landschaft schauen. Ist es möglich, mitten im Alltag Zugang zu dieser grundlegenden Herzensqualität zu finden? Stephan Pende lädt ein, Bedingungen zu erforschen, die Nährboden sein können für eine Öffnung in diesen weiten, inneren Raum. Sie werden üben, durch wache und feinfühlige Gegenwärtigkeit zunehmend mit der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens vertraut zu werden. Diese natürliche Gelassenheit und Freundlichkeit mit sich selbst können Sie dann in Ihren Alltag und Ihre Beziehungen bringen.

Momente der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens öffnen sich spontan immer wieder. Vielleicht leuchten sie für Sie auf, wenn Sie auf einem Berg stehen und in die Weite der Landschaft schauen. Ist es möglich, mitten im Alltag Zugang zu dieser grundlegenden Herzensqualität zu finden? Stephan Pende lädt ein, Bedingungen zu erforschen, die Nährboden sein können für eine Öffnung in diesen weiten, inneren Raum. Sie werden üben, durch wache und feinfühlige Gegenwärtigkeit zunehmend mit der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens vertraut zu werden. Diese natürliche Gelassenheit und Freundlichkeit mit sich selbst können Sie dann in Ihren Alltag und Ihre Beziehungen bringen.

Momente der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens öffnen sich spontan immer wieder. Vielleicht leuchten sie für Sie auf, wenn Sie auf einem Berg stehen und in die Weite der Landschaft schauen. Ist es möglich, mitten im Alltag Zugang zu dieser grundlegenden Herzensqualität zu finden? Stephan Pende lädt ein, Bedingungen zu erforschen, die Nährboden sein können für eine Öffnung in diesen weiten, inneren Raum. Sie werden üben, durch wache und feinfühlige Gegenwärtigkeit zunehmend mit der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens vertraut zu werden. Diese natürliche Gelassenheit und Freundlichkeit mit sich selbst können Sie dann in Ihren Alltag und Ihre Beziehungen bringen.

Momente der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens öffnen sich spontan immer wieder. Vielleicht leuchten sie für Sie auf, wenn Sie auf einem Berg stehen und in die Weite der Landschaft schauen. Ist es möglich, mitten im Alltag Zugang zu dieser grundlegenden Herzensqualität zu finden? Stephan Pende lädt ein, Bedingungen zu erforschen, die Nährboden sein können für eine Öffnung in diesen weiten, inneren Raum. Sie werden üben, durch wache und feinfühlige Gegenwärtigkeit zunehmend mit der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens vertraut zu werden. Diese natürliche Gelassenheit und Freundlichkeit mit sich selbst können Sie dann in Ihren Alltag und Ihre Beziehungen bringen.

Momente der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens öffnen sich spontan immer wieder. Vielleicht leuchten sie für Sie auf, wenn Sie auf einem Berg stehen und in die Weite der Landschaft schauen. Ist es möglich, mitten im Alltag Zugang zu dieser grundlegenden Herzensqualität zu finden? Stephan Pende lädt ein, Bedingungen zu erforschen, die Nährboden sein können für eine Öffnung in diesen weiten, inneren Raum. Sie werden üben, durch wache und feinfühlige Gegenwärtigkeit zunehmend mit der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens vertraut zu werden. Diese natürliche Gelassenheit und Freundlichkeit mit sich selbst können Sie dann in Ihren Alltag und Ihre Beziehungen bringen.

Momente der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens öffnen sich spontan immer wieder. Vielleicht leuchten sie für Sie auf, wenn Sie auf einem Berg stehen und in die Weite der Landschaft schauen. Ist es möglich, mitten im Alltag Zugang zu dieser grundlegenden Herzensqualität zu finden? Stephan Pende lädt ein, Bedingungen zu erforschen, die Nährboden sein können für eine Öffnung in diesen weiten, inneren Raum. Sie werden üben, durch wache und feinfühlige Gegenwärtigkeit zunehmend mit der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens vertraut zu werden. Diese natürliche Gelassenheit und Freundlichkeit mit sich selbst können Sie dann in Ihren Alltag und Ihre Beziehungen bringen.

Momente der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens öffnen sich spontan immer wieder. Vielleicht leuchten sie für Sie auf, wenn Sie auf einem Berg stehen und in die Weite der Landschaft schauen. Ist es möglich, mitten im Alltag Zugang zu dieser grundlegenden Herzensqualität zu finden? Stephan Pende lädt ein, Bedingungen zu erforschen, die Nährboden sein können für eine Öffnung in diesen weiten, inneren Raum. Sie werden üben, durch wache und feinfühlige Gegenwärtigkeit zunehmend mit der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens vertraut zu werden. Diese natürliche Gelassenheit und Freundlichkeit mit sich selbst können Sie dann in Ihren Alltag und Ihre Beziehungen bringen.

Momente der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens öffnen sich spontan immer wieder. Vielleicht leuchten sie für Sie auf, wenn Sie auf einem Berg stehen und in die Weite der Landschaft schauen. Ist es möglich, mitten im Alltag Zugang zu dieser grundlegenden Herzensqualität zu finden? Stephan Pende lädt ein, Bedingungen zu erforschen, die Nährboden sein können für eine Öffnung in diesen weiten, inneren Raum. Sie werden üben, durch wache und feinfühlige Gegenwärtigkeit zunehmend mit der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens vertraut zu werden. Diese natürliche Gelassenheit und Freundlichkeit mit sich selbst können Sie dann in Ihren Alltag und Ihre Beziehungen bringen.

Momente der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens öffnen sich spontan immer wieder. Vielleicht leuchten sie für Sie auf, wenn Sie auf einem Berg stehen und in die Weite der Landschaft schauen. Ist es möglich, mitten im Alltag Zugang zu dieser grundlegenden Herzensqualität zu finden? Stephan Pende lädt ein, Bedingungen zu erforschen, die Nährboden sein können für eine Öffnung in diesen weiten, inneren Raum. Sie werden üben, durch wache und feinfühlige Gegenwärtigkeit zunehmend mit der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens vertraut zu werden. Diese natürliche Gelassenheit und Freundlichkeit mit sich selbst können Sie dann in Ihren Alltag und Ihre Beziehungen bringen.

Momente der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens öffnen sich spontan immer wieder. Vielleicht leuchten sie für Sie auf, wenn Sie auf einem Berg stehen und in die Weite der Landschaft schauen. Ist es möglich, mitten im Alltag Zugang zu dieser grundlegenden Herzensqualität zu finden? Stephan Pende lädt ein, Bedingungen zu erforschen, die Nährboden sein können für eine Öffnung in diesen weiten, inneren Raum. Sie werden üben, durch wache und feinfühlige Gegenwärtigkeit zunehmend mit der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens vertraut zu werden. Diese natürliche Gelassenheit und Freundlichkeit mit sich selbst können Sie dann in Ihren Alltag und Ihre Beziehungen bringen.

Momente der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens öffnen sich spontan immer wieder. Vielleicht leuchten sie für Sie auf, wenn Sie auf einem Berg stehen und in die Weite der Landschaft schauen. Ist es möglich, mitten im Alltag Zugang zu dieser grundlegenden Herzensqualität zu finden? Stephan Pende lädt ein, Bedingungen zu erforschen, die Nährboden sein können für eine Öffnung in diesen weiten, inneren Raum. Sie werden üben, durch wache und feinfühlige Gegenwärtigkeit zunehmend mit der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens vertraut zu werden. Diese natürliche Gelassenheit und Freundlichkeit mit sich selbst können Sie dann in Ihren Alltag und Ihre Beziehungen bringen.

Momente der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens öffnen sich spontan immer wieder. Vielleicht leuchten sie für Sie auf, wenn Sie auf einem Berg stehen und in die Weite der Landschaft schauen. Ist es möglich, mitten im Alltag Zugang zu dieser grundlegenden Herzensqualität zu finden? Stephan Pende lädt ein, Bedingungen zu erforschen, die Nährboden sein können für eine Öffnung in diesen weiten, inneren Raum. Sie werden üben, durch wache und feinfühlige Gegenwärtigkeit zunehmend mit der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens vertraut zu werden. Diese natürliche Gelassenheit und Freundlichkeit mit sich selbst können Sie dann in Ihren Alltag und Ihre Beziehungen bringen.

Momente der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens öffnen sich spontan immer wieder. Vielleicht leuchten sie für Sie auf, wenn Sie auf einem Berg stehen und in die Weite der Landschaft schauen. Ist es möglich, mitten im Alltag Zugang zu dieser grundlegenden Herzensqualität zu finden? Stephan Pende lädt ein, Bedingungen zu erforschen, die Nährboden sein können für eine Öffnung in diesen weiten, inneren Raum. Sie werden üben, durch wache und feinfühlige Gegenwärtigkeit zunehmend mit der Geräumigkeit Ihres Herzens vertraut zu werden. Diese natürliche Gelassenheit und Freundlichkeit mit sich selbst können Sie dann in Ihren Alltag und Ihre Beziehungen bringen.

Professor Thurman discusses the potential dangers of cultivating an empty mind without also developing proper understanding of what emptiness is. Just meditating with our default understanding of reality can temporarily dampen our worries, but it won't completely overcome them. The danger is that we'll think we're already enlightened, and lose the motivation to completely transform our whole experience into a Buddhaverse. "A true bodhisattva does not develop strong meditative prowess at the wrong time. The abilities you attain with deep contemplation—the abilities to isolate oneself from relationships, to deaden the emotions, to withdraw when encountering obstructions, to palliate suffering with genuine detachment—can make you stick at a level of self-centeredness that stunts your spiritual growth." Robert A.F. Thurman “The Danger of “Just Meditate!” - Episode 19 of the Bob Thurman Podcast” is an excerpt from a lecture given at Jewel Heart in New York City, May 7, 2015, as part of a lecture series called "Vajrayana and Emptiness." The Danger of “Just Meditate!” - Ep. 19 of the Bob Thurman Podcast Photo by Mathew Schwartz on Unsplash   To read more about programs with Robert A.F Thurman with Jewel Heart please visit: www.jewelheart.org. The song ‘Dancing Ling' by Tenzin Choegyal from the album ‘Heart Sutra‘ (2004) by Ethno Super Lounge is used on the Bob Thurman Podcast with artist's permission, all rights reserved. To listen to more recordings from past Robert A.F. Thurman programs please consider becoming a Tibet House US Member.