A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment Podcast
Meditation Podcast Episodes
Episode 25: What Is Love?
Love is complex in our culture, tied up with finding a single person to satisfy our huge list of needs and dreams. But love from the Buddhist perspective is simpler: wishing others to be happy.
Episode 24: The Dalai Lama’s “Simple Meditation”
The Dalai Lama recommends this meditation for the early morning, right when you wake up: a meditation on the nature of the mind, followed by meditating on the kindness of others.
Episode 23: Guided Meditation — Transforming Bias with Equanimity
The Buddhist meditation on equanimity teaches a technique to eliminate bias and expand our care and concern from family and friends to strangers and even enemies.
Episode 22: Spiritual Democracy
The Buddhist meditation on equanimity teaches us a technique of “spiritual democracy” for developing healthy feelings of connection to others—even those we most despise.
Episode 21: Venerable Robina Courtin — Buddha’s Science of Mind
Venerable Robina Courtin, Buddhist nun and advocate for prisoner’s rights, on how activists can leverage meditation and mind training, how Buddhism functions as a science of the mind, and how being a Buddhist doesn’t mean being a pushover.
Episode 20: Guided Meditation: Fighting Systemic Racism through Compassionate Action #BlackLivesMatter
A guided meditation on fighting the systemic racism against Black Americans through compassionate action.
Episode 25: What Is Love?
Love is complex in our culture, tied up with finding a single person to satisfy our huge list of needs and dreams. But love from the Buddhist perspective is simpler: wishing others to be happy.
Episode 24: The Dalai Lama’s “Simple Meditation”
The Dalai Lama recommends this meditation for the early morning, right when you wake up: a meditation on the nature of the mind, followed by meditating on the kindness of others.
Episode 23: Guided Meditation — Transforming Bias with Equanimity
The Buddhist meditation on equanimity teaches a technique to eliminate bias and expand our care and concern from family and friends to strangers and even enemies.
Episode 22: Spiritual Democracy
The Buddhist meditation on equanimity teaches us a technique of “spiritual democracy” for developing healthy feelings of connection to others—even those we most despise.
Episode 21: Venerable Robina Courtin — Buddha’s Science of Mind
Venerable Robina Courtin, Buddhist nun and advocate for prisoner’s rights, on how activists can leverage meditation and mind training, how Buddhism functions as a science of the mind, and how being a Buddhist doesn’t mean being a pushover.
Episode 20: Guided Meditation: Fighting Systemic Racism through Compassionate Action #BlackLivesMatter
A guided meditation on fighting the systemic racism against Black Americans through compassionate action.