Podcasts about Upaya

Pemerintah Kota Medan terus mendorong kesadaran masyarakat akan pentingnya kesehatan ibu dan anak. Salah satu upaya yang dilakukan adalah meningkatkan partisipasi vaksinasi bagi ibu hamil untuk menjaga kesehatan ibu sekaligus memberikan perlindungan awal bagi bayi.Program ini menjadi bagian dari langkah percepatan penurunan stunting dengan memperkuat pencegahan sejak masa kehamilan hingga awal kehidupan anak.

Upaya penyelundupan narkoba kembali digagalkan di lapas kelas 1 semarang, sebuah bungkusan dilempar dari luar tembok lapas yang berisi dugaannya adalah obat terlarang

Kepolisian Republik Indonesia mengerahkan 283 personel untuk memperkuat edukasi dan pencegahan kebakaran hutan dan lahan atau karhutla di wilayah Sumatera dan Kalimantan.Upaya ini menyasar masyarakat di sejumlah daerah rawan karhutla, termasuk Kalimantan Timur, dengan fokus meningkatkan kesadaran warga agar mencegah terjadinya kebakaran yang dapat berdampak luas terhadap lingkungan dan kesehatan.

Upaya pencarian terhadap lima jurnalis dan tiga kru kapal yang hilang saat hendak meliput Gunung Anak Krakatau belum membuahkan hasil. Pada Kamis malam, proses pencarian dihentikan sementara dan akan dilanjutkan kembali pagi ini.

Upaya peningkatan layanan kesehatan nasional terus dilakukan melalui penguatan kompetensi tenaga medis. Salah satunya melalui simposium kesehatan yang membahas pengembangan keterampilan dalam penanganan nyeri secara tepat dan komprehensif.

Upaya peningkatan layanan kesehatan nasional terus dilakukan melalui penguatan kompetensi tenaga medis. Salah satunya melalui simposium kesehatan yang membahas pengembangan keterampilan dalam penanganan nyeri secara tepat dan komprehensif.

Upaya mempercepat pemulihan kawasan terdampak gempa di Nusa Tenggara Timur terus dilakukan. APKASI mendorong percepatan pemulihan infrastruktur serta penanganan kondisi psikologis masyarakat terdampak.Dorongan tersebut mengemuka saat APKASI meninjau Posko BPBD Manggarai Barat di Labuan Bajo. Kunjungan dipimpin Ketua Umum APKASI Bursah Zarnubi untuk melihat langsung kondisi masyarakat dan dampak gempa di sejumlah wilayah Flores.Kerusakan akibat gempa meliputi rumah warga, fasilitas pendidikan, kesehatan, hingga infrastruktur dasar. Pemulihan dinilai perlu dilakukan secepatnya agar pelayanan dasar dan aktivitas masyarakat dapat kembali berjalan.Selain pemulihan fisik, penanganan trauma masyarakat juga menjadi perhatian. Gempa susulan yang masih terjadi dinilai dapat memperberat tekanan psikologis warga, sehingga dibutuhkan dukungan medis dan trauma healing.Bursah Zarnubi menegaskan, APKASI akan terus mengawal penanganan pascabencana, termasuk berkoordinasi dengan kementerian terkait untuk mempercepat rehabilitasi dan rekonstruksi di wilayah terdampak.

Tim SAR gabungan Nepal terus melakukan pencarian terhadap sejumlah pekerja yang terjebak di dalam terowongan pembangkit listrik tenaga air. Upaya penyelamatan masih berlangsung dengan menghadapi kondisi medan yang sulit di area bawah tanah.

Upaya memperluas akses pasar terus dilakukan bagi pelaku UMKM dan pengusaha muslim. Melalui berbagai kegiatan promosi dan temu usaha, para pelaku bisnis mendapat kesempatan untuk memperkenalkan produk, membangun jaringan, serta mendekatkan diri dengan konsumen secara langsung.

In this session of Upaya's Dogen Seminar 2026, Steven Heine, professor of religion and history and director of Asian Studies at Florida International University, traces Dogen's life and teaching — from proverbs posted at Soto temple gates to manga retellings of his years in China. Returning to a question raised the night before, about Bodhidharma's charge to “bear what is unbearable… Source

In this session of Upaya's Dogen Seminar 2026, Roshi Norman Fischer takes up Dogen's fascicle Bodhisattva Shishobo, the Four Methods of Guidance: generosity, kind speech, beneficial action, and identity action. He frames this text as a departure from Dogen's earlier work — scholars believe it may reflect a late-life turn in Dogen away from esoteric philosophy and toward plain ethical conduct. Source

In this session of Upaya's Dogen Seminar 2026, Sensei Kaz Tanahashi traces Dogen's contemporary journey from a Zen ancestor barely mentioned by D.T. Suzuki — whose paradigm of sudden awakening had little room for Dogen's teaching — to a figure now studied in more than two hundred English-language publications and translated into other languages across the world. He recounts his own thirty-three… Source

In this session of Upaya's Dogen Seminar 2026, Roshi Konjin Gaelyn Godwin gives a close textual reading of Dogen's fascicle Shunju, tracing a single koan — when a monk asks how to escape cold and heat, and Dongshan answers, “When it's cold, the cold kills you. When it's hot, the heat kills you” — through the Blue Cliff Record, multiple named commentators, and competing translations. Source

In this session of Upaya's Dogen Seminar 2026, Reverend Tenmyo Dojima introduces baika, the Soto Zen tradition of Buddhist hymn-singing, chanting a hymn drawn from one of Dogen's own poems: “Even upon a high, steep cliff where the rough waves cannot reach, the true Dharma clings and takes firm root, just as oysters cling to the rock.” Roshi Joan introduces the faculty panel of the weekend's… Source

In this opening session of Upaya's 2026 Dogen Seminar, Roshi Joan Halifax welcomes a gathering of teachers assembled to explore the life and teaching of Eihei Dogen, the 13th-century Zen master and founder of the Soto school of Zen. Sensei Kaz Tanahashi, whose decades of translation work brought Dogen's Shobogenzo into English, traces its long path from centuries of obscurity to worldwide… Source

In this final session of Upaya's Dogen Seminar 2026, Sensei Sokaku Kathie Fischer takes up Dogen's Mountains and Waters Sutra, tracing how sustained attention dissolves the boundary between self and world. Drawing on stories from her own practice life, she returns often to the way small, ordinary contact with things — a stone, a teacup, a mountain trail — can either be led by our concepts or… Source

Dibawakan oleh Seren Regina Wilhelmina Bupu Mame dari Gereja Santo Albertus Agung, Paroki Harapan Indah Bekasi di Keuskupan Agung Jakarta, Indonesia. Yeremia 20: 7-9; Mazmur tg 63: 2.3-4.5-6.8-9; Roma 12: 1-2; Matius 16: 21-27.TANTANGAN PENYANGKALAN DIRI Tema renungan kita pada hari Minggu Biasa ke-22 ini ialah: TantanganPenyangkalan Diri. Kita semua pengikut Kristus selalu mendengar, mengucapkandan melakukan tindakan penyangkalan diri. Hal ini terjadi juga dengan dua anak,kakak dan adik, yang masih sekolah di sekolah dasar, kelas enam dan empat.Mereka dilatih untuk membereskan tempat tidurnya setelah bangun. Mereka sering merasa bosan atau malas untuk melakukannya. Suasana bangunpagi sangat tidak menyenangkan untuk bekerja membereskan tempat tidur.Namun  orang tua dengan sabar dan tekunmembimbing supaya kedua anak itu dapat mengalahkan rasa bosan dan malasnya.Sang kakak ikut memotivasi adiknya supaya mereka berusaha terus membereskantempat tidurnya masing-masing, dan ketika kebiasaan itu sudah rutin, merekatidak lagi bosan dan malas. Upaya mengalahkan rasa bosan dan malas serta ketekunan dalam mewujudkanupaya tersebut merupakan contoh penyangkalan diri. Inti setiap tindakanpenyangkalan diri ialah pengontrolan atau penyangkalan atas keinginan pribadiatau suatu kesenangan tertentu. Maksud penyangkalan ini ialah demi menjalankandan mencapai suatu tujuan lain yang bukan menjadi kehendak diri sendiri.Kehendak yang lain itu memberikan suatu harapan yang tinggi dan lebih bagusuntuk dicapai, meskipun harus melalui cara dan proses yang sulit. Semua bentuk cara penyangkalan diri yang kita lakukan di dunia ini mendapatsumber kekuatan dan inspirasinya dari Tuhan Yesus Kristus. Pada hari ini Iamengajarkan kita bahwa penyangkalan diri adalah cara satu-satunya yang kitapakai untuk mengikuti-Nya. Jalan Yesus adalah jalan salib dan kita dituntutuntuk dapat memanggul salib kita masing-masing agar kita menjadi seiring danseperjuangan dengan Yesus Kristus. Salib adalah tanda kesulitan dan penderitaanyang perlu kita nikmati dan pikul. Kita tidak boleh membuangnya. Nabi Yeremia menerangkan bahwa penyangkalan diri patut kita lakukan denganmengalahkan godaan untuk meniadakan firman Tuhan. Ketika kita mendengar Sabdayang tegas dan menuntut, hendaknya kita tidak boleh menghindarinya. SantoPaulus juga mengajarkan kita untuk membuat penyangkalan diri denganmempersembahkan tubuh kita, dan bukan hanya jiwa serta roh kita. Tubuh kitatidak boleh menjadi penjara bagi roh dan jiwa kita. Tubuh yang lelah dan sakit,kita tidak dapat berdoa dan melayani atas nama Tuhan. Jika mata, telinga dansentuhan kita tidak difungsikan dengan benar, kita mudah jatuh ke dalam dosa. Sesungguhnya, kita masih belum mantap dan konsisten dalam penyangkalan diridemi menjadi murid Yesus yang sejati. Semua bentuk pengorbanan menjaditantangan bagi kita. Kita harus menjalaninya dan tidak ada jalan mundur. Marilah kita berdoa.Dalam nama Bapa ... Ya Tuhan semoga dengan perayaan hari ini, kami menjadisemakin menyatu dengan salib Putra-Mu dan rela memanggul salib kamimasing-masing. Bapa kami yang ada di surga ... Dalam nama Bapa ...

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Bantuan untuk warga terdampak gempa di Pulau Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur, terus disalurkan. Polairud Polda NTT mengirim bantuan ke wilayah terisolir melalui jalur laut.Desa Nitung, Pulau Palue, Kabupaten Sikka, menjadi salah satu wilayah yang sulit dijangkau akibat dampak gempa. Petugas kepolisian menggunakan jalur laut untuk membawa berbagai kebutuhan bagi warga terdampak.Bantuan yang disalurkan berupa makanan dan minuman, obat-obatan, selimut, serta kebutuhan logistik lainnya.Upaya penyaluran bantuan terus dilakukan untuk memastikan warga di wilayah terpencil tetap mendapatkan dukungan pascabencana.

Kementerian Pekerjaan Umum bersama Asosiasi Jalan Tol Indonesia (ATI) menyelenggarakan Focus Group Discussion (FGD) untuk menyelaraskan ekosistem infrastruktur jalan tol di Indonesia. Pertemuan yang melibatkan unsur pemerintah, badan usaha jalan tol, serta akademisi ini membahas isu-isu strategis, seperti kepastian investasi, konsistensi perjanjian pengusahaan, penyesuaian tarif, hingga penerapan teknologi Multi Lane Free Flow (MLFF). Langkah ini diambil untuk menciptakan iklim investasi yang sehat dan berkelanjutan, guna memastikan pembangunan infrastruktur tetap berjalan optimal dengan tetap mengutamakan kualitas pelayanan serta keselamatan bagi seluruh pengguna jalan tol.

MetroTV, Upaya pencarian korban gempa dahsyat di Kolombia memasuki fase kritis. Petugas penyelamat bersama warga terus berusaha mencari korban di antara reruntuhan bangunan.

Kebakaran hutan melanda kawasan Cagar Alam Deliblato Sands, timur laut Serbia. Petugas pemadam kebakaran bersama helikopter dikerahkan untuk mengatasi kobaran api yang telah melalap sedikitnya 700 hektare lahan.Upaya pemadaman terus dilakukan secara intensif. Helikopter water bombing dikerahkan untuk menjangkau titik-titik api dari udara. Kepulan asap tebal terlihat membumbung tinggi hingga mendekati permukiman warga, termasuk di sekitar Desa Sumarak.

Ketegangan kembali meningkat di Lebanon Selatan di tengah berlangsungnya putaran ketujuh pembicaraan damai di Roma. Di saat upaya diplomasi terus berjalan, militer Israel dilaporkan melakukan perusakan lahan di wilayah Wadi Al Salouqi.

Bentrokan dahsyat pecah di kawasan Beni Ansar setelah ratusan migran terlibat saling serang dengan polisi dan pasukan keamanan Maroko. Insiden ini terjadi saat petugas berusaha menggagalkan upaya para migran yang mencoba menerobos masuk ke wilayah enklave Spanyol di Melilla.

Kebakaran hutan melanda wilayah selatan Italia, memaksa petugas pemadam mengerahkan pesawat penjatuh air dan helikopter untuk menahan penyebaran api.

Perang narasi digital kini mengancam persatuan Indonesia melalui penyebaran hoaks dan polarisasi yang masif di media sosial.Di balik fenomena ini, tersembunyi aktor-aktor intelektual dengan berbagai kepentingan, mulai dari kepentingan politik elektoral hingga sindikat gelap yang sengaja memecah belah bangsa demi keuntungan kelompok mereka.Polda Metro Jaya pun berhasil membongkar sindikat pendengung atau buzzer yang menyebarkan informasi tidak benar (hoax) di media sosial (medsos), dan menetapkan delapan orang sebagai tersangka. Perang Narasi Digital: Siapa Bermain di Balik Upaya Memecah Belah Bangsa?Narasumber1. Pakar Politik dari Universitas Sriwijaya (Unsri) Dr M Husni Thamrin, M.Si2. Pengamat hukum dan politik dari Universitas Nasional Jakarta, Saiful Anam.

Panglima Komando Gabungan Wilayah Pertahanan III Letjen Lucky Avianto menyampaikan perkembangan operasi TNI dalam menjaga keamanan di wilayah Papua.Dalam evaluasi operasi Kogabwilhan III, TNI mengapresiasi keberhasilan Satgas dalam proses evakuasi warga asli Papua yang menjadi korban aksi kelompok kriminal bersenjata (KKB) di Yahukimo.TNI menyebut setiap langkah operasi dilakukan secara terukur sesuai aturan hukum dan prosedur yang berlaku. Upaya pengamanan terus dilakukan untuk menjaga stabilitas serta melindungi masyarakat di wilayah Papua.

Panglima Komando Gabungan Wilayah Pertahanan III Letjen TNI Lucky Avianto memimpin langsung proses evakuasi puing pesawat Pilatus milik PT AMA di Distrik Balinggama, Papua Pegunungan.Proses pembersihan landasan perintis dilakukan untuk mempercepat pemulihan akses transportasi udara yang menjadi jalur penting bagi kebutuhan logistik dan pelayanan masyarakat setempat.Dalam kegiatan tersebut, personel TNI bersama masyarakat, tokoh adat, dan tokoh agama melakukan pembersihan area landasan agar aktivitas penerbangan dapat kembali berjalan.Upaya pemulihan ini menjadi bagian dari langkah menjaga kelancaran akses masyarakat di wilayah Papua Pegunungan.

Sedikitnya tujuh kasus dugaan kekerasan seksual di lingkungan pondok pesantren terungkap di berbagai daerah sepanjang Mei hingga Juli 2026. Temuan ini memunculkan keprihatinan publik terhadap perlindungan anak di lembaga pendidikan berbasis keagamaan. Lalu, bagaimana langkah Kementerian Agama dalam memperkuat pengawasan, pencegahan, dan penindakan terhadap pelaku? Simak penjelasan Direktur Pesantren Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Islam Kementerian Agama, Dr. H. Basnang Said, dalam perbincangan bersama Radio Elshinta.

Menteri Lingkungan Hidup, Jumhur Hidayat, meninjau langsung lokasi kebakaran di TPA Jatiwaringin, Kabupaten Tangerang, Banten. Pemerintah menargetkan api segera padam setelah sisa titik bara tinggal sekitar 3,6 persen. Upaya penanganan diperkuat dengan penambahan helikopter water bombing serta langkah antisipasi untuk mencegah kebakaran serupa di berbagai tempat pemrosesan akhir (TPA) di Indonesia.

PPIA UNSW's Indonesian Night Market is an event that celebrates Indonesian culture and contributes to broader Indonesia-Australia relations. - Indonesian Night Market dari PPIA UNSW menjadi acara yang merayakan budaya Indonesia dan berkontribusi pada hubungan Indonesia-Australia secara lebih luas.Listen to SBS Indonesian on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays at 3pm.Follow us on Facebook and Instagram, and subscribe to our podcasts. - Dengarkan SBS Indonesian setiap hari Senin, Rabu, Jumat, dan Minggu jam 3 sore.Ikuti kami di Facebook dan Instagram, serta jangan lewatkan podcast kami.

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, offered during Upaya's Young Adult Sesshin, Sensei Kodo and Sensei Dainin explore two practices that shape the foundation of sesshin: noble silence and Oryoki. Kodo opens by naming what we're actually up against: a culture of constant stimulation that makes stillness feel uncomfortable, citing silence as “an alternative to modern culture, i.e., samsara. Source

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Dainin — emergency physician turned dharma teacher — explores what western medicine trains us to suppress and what Zen practice invites us to reclaim. Tracing her own path from clinical dissociation to a reawakening of compassion and connection at Upaya's Being with Dying training, she turns to the well known koan of a water buffalo whose tail catches in… Source

Audiobook.  Mature listeners only (18+).  Song/Poem referred was written by Hefker the Rabbi at Upaya.

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk during Upaya's Being with Dying intensive, Frank Ostaseski speaks to participants from the loss of three close friends within a matter of weeks. Rather than offering technique or teaching, he invites open inquiry into grief itself: what it feels like in the body, how it moves, and why we so often push it away. “I think to grieve is to be human,” he says. Source

In this Zazenkai Day talk during Upaya's Spring Practice Period, Sensei Shinzan surveys the first six pictures of the ox herding series, from the first pull toward practice to the hard won ease of riding the ox home. He then turns to a recent question a student brought to him: how do I know if I'm practicing correctly, and when is rest just laziness? Shinzan answers through an encounter between… Source

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, offered during the fourth day of Upaya's Spring Practice Period sesshin, Sensei Shinzan guides us through the seventh and eighth stages of the Ten Ox-Herding Pictures — two of the most profound moments in the Zen map of awakening. The seventh stage, Forgetting the Ox, marks the end of the seeker: grasping falls away, the division between practice and life… Source

In this second session of Upaya's Spring Practice Period, Senseis Shinzan, Monshin, and Ryotan, and Hoshi Senko introduce the text that anchors this practice period — The Ten Ox-Herding Pictures: Our Journey of Awakening — its origins, images, and themes. The ox-herding metaphor traces back to the Buddha's teachings on mindful practice, traveling through India and China before becoming… Source

In this opening session of Upaya's Spring Practice Period, Senseis Ryotan, Monshin, and Shinzan, and Hoshi Senko welcome residents, guests, and the Cloud Sangha into a month of shared practice. Drawing on the 12th-century ox-herding series and John Daido Loori's Riding the Ox Home as the program's central text, the teachers frame the ten pictures not as a linear progression but as a spiral… Source

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, offered during Upaya's Spring Practice Period, Sensei Ryotan explores a central theme of the ten ox-herding pictures: why is simply being present so difficult? Drawing on John Daido Loori's Riding the Ox Home and the child psychologist D.W. Winnicott's concept of “going on being,” Ryotan traces how conditioning — laid down in childhood and reinforced throughout… Source

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, offered during Upaya's Spring Practice Period, Sensei Monshin and Hoshi Senko guide us through the heart of the oxherding pictures — the ancient Zen metaphor of spiritual maturation. Monshin frames the third and fourth paintings, seeing and catching the ox, as our commitment to the path. Why face the bull? What truly moves us toward such a challenging practice? Source

Makin panjang perang Iran berlangsung, makin besar ongkos yang harus dibayar. Upaya-upaya seperti kebijakan WFH, efisiensi, dan pembatasan bahan bakar sulit diyakini bisa menambal kantong negara yang jebol karena harus menambah anggaran subsidi energi. Menaikkan harga BBM dan memotong program berbiaya besar adalah satu-satunya jalan menyelamatkan APBN. - - - Kunjungi⁠ s.id/bacatempo untuk mendapatkan diskon berlangganan Tempo Digital. Unduh aplikasi⁠⁠ Tempo⁠⁠ untuk membaca berbagai liputan mendalam Tempo. Powered by Firstory Hosting

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Butsumon Tuck Stibich — a resident priest at Upaya — opens with a teaching from Thich Nhat Hanh. No stranger to war, Thich Nhat Hanh explains that our anxiety about the world's suffering is an obstacle to service: that fear and worry do not help us cultivate peace, or become a refuge for others. Reflecting on this and the vows made in Jukai… Source

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk coinciding with Lunar New Year, Senseis Kodo and Dainin Lau guide viewers through a recording of Upaya's Gate of Sweet Nectar — a monthly new moon ceremony of radical hospitality toward all hungry and wandering spirits. These hungry ghosts become a mirror for the parts of ourselves blinded by greed, aversion, and delusion — the states that make us unable to… Source

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk following the Winter Practice Period at Upaya, Sensei Fushin explores silence not as absence or void, but as presence—”that face before we were born looking back at us.” Through three powerful stories from his work as a family law attorney and former chaplain, he reveals silence as an active force that holds, supports, and heals. In a conference room after a… Source

In this introduction to Dōgen's Tenzo Kyōkun (Instructions for the Cook) during the opening days of Upaya's Winter Practice Period, the faculty explores how awakening is realized through work, care, and ordinary activity. Roshi Joan Halifax reflects on Dōgen's three minds—joyful mind, parental mind (grandmother's heart), and big mind—emphasizing care for others in the cultivation of wholesome… Source

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk during the Winter Practice Period at Upaya, Sensei Dainin collects our attention from the many paths we feel pulled in—gathering it toward one-pointed effort as a genuine way of relieving the suffering of self and other. Illustrating Roshi Joan's reflection—“it's good to stay in one place, watch the seasons change, and just do one thing”—through photographs of… Source

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk during the Winter Practice Period at Upaya, Sensei Wendy Johnson explores Dōgen's Tenzo Kyokun (Instructions for the Cook) through the metaphor of standing stones like those erected in England and the British Isles by Neolithic ancestors—ancient, grounded monuments embodying power and presence. She traces the text's origins to Tang Dynasty monastics who created… Source

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Roshi Joan Halifax is joined by Senseis Kodo, Dainin, and longtime Upaya friend and master Zen gardener Sensei Wendy Johnson to set the roots of the month-long Winter Ango (peaceful dwelling). Roshi traces Ango's history to ancient traditions of seasonal retreat and offers careful instruction not to trample what arises—no longer avoiding snakes, insects… Source

At a recent event in support of Dharma Moon's Yearlong Buddhist Studies program on January 6th, Ethan was joined by the great Roshi Joan Halifax, to discuss the practice, history and theory of Engaged Buddhism. Why is this integrated approach to the dharma so crucial now? Ethan begins with an impassioned plea after the ICE murder of the Renee Good in Minneapolis to come together as sangha and practice engaged dharma this year. And every time the thought arises "I could do something but it won't really make any difference," please label that thought thinking. Roshi Joan Halifax is Founder, Abbot, and Head Teacher of Upaya, a center which focused on Engaged Buddhism in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her vision for the Zen Center embraces comprehensive Buddhist studies, meditation, service, dharma art, and environmental action as integrated paths cultivating peace and interconnectedness. She is also the author of multiple books including Standing at The Edge and Being With Dying. In 2025, with your subscriptions, we were able to release more episodes than any previous year. This was only possible with your subscriptions. Please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber below Paid subscribers to The Road Home will receive occasional extras like guided meditations, extra podcast episodes and more! The Thursday Meditation Group happens each week at 8am ET on Thursdays, and a guided audio meditations are released monthly. Another bonus podcast for paid subscribers discussed a mindful take on intuition, and Ethan also offered instruction in the RAIN method for working with emotions with self-compassion. These are all available to paid subscribers. You can also subscribe to The Road Home podcast wherever you get your pods (Apple, Ethan's Website, etc). You can also subscribe to The Road Home podcast wherever you get your pods (Apple, Ethan's Website, etc). Find out about the 2026 Yearlong Buddhist Studies program at this link! A new free video course on a classic Buddhist contemplation called The Five Remembrances is available at this link. Check out all the cool offerings at our podcast sponsor Dharma Moon. Free video courses co-taught by Ethan and others, such as The Three Marks of Existence, are also available for download at Dharma Moon.