The Integration of Buddhist Principles and Modern Psychology
The Buddha Dharma is an influential source of wisdom in contemporary psychological practices. It offers profound insights into the nature of the mind, emotions, and human suffering, providing a comprehensive understanding of mental processes and patterns.
Karma and Suffering
Karma as the process of the construction of the self.
September 12, 2026
Thoughts, Self and Suffering
What the Buddha said when he attained Awakening.
August 29, 2026
Emotions and Suffering
Emotions as the basis for suffering in our lives. What are thoughts and what are feelings?
August 22, 2026
From Emptiness to the Ground of Being
Reality as a way of seeing.
August 8, 2026
From Dependent Origination to Emptiness
Reality as a dynamically evolving patterns of causal relationships: a relational process.
August 1, 2026
How Karma Creates the Self
How conditions create who we are and how to come to understand our karma and awakening.
July 25, 2026
Karma and Emptiness
Karma – the lawful pattern of relational causality embedded in an interconnected reality
July 18, 2026
The Default Mode Network
How our reality is created by our sense of self: the default mode network–where Buddhism and neuroscience converge.
June 20, 2026
June 27, 2026
What is God?
The concept of God from the perspective of different faith traditions
August 23, 2025
What is Reality?
How our minds create reality. Understanding pure awareness: the field upon which we create our personal reality.
October 25, 2025
Projections and Karma
A step-by-step practice of bringing mindfulness to our projections and negative emotions
August 16, 2025
Why We Don’t See Reality As It Truly Is
What is the difference between normal thinking and pure awareness?
August 9, 2025
Getting Out of Our Heads and Into Our Bodies
Why do we keep thinking the same thoughts?
July 2025
The Ego and Self
The Buddhist interpretation of the ego.
February 2025
Buddhist Unconscious and Psychological Projections
How suffering arises from our unconscious mind and the role of mental projections
December 2024
Empowerment
The Process of Self Actualization from Buddhist and Western Perspectives
Series of 4 episodes
Recorded February 2012
25 Beautiful Mindstates
Cultivate beautiful mind states for wisdom and liberation from suffering.
Series of 27 episodes
Recorded in 2022
Individual Episodes
Mindfulness Practice- Working with Negative Emotions and Thoughts
Topics include: 1) Encountering negative emotions in meditation is actually a good thing; 2) Working with negative emotions is not about replacing them with positive emotions, but understanding how negative emotions arise; 3) understanding negative emotions is about understanding suffering and learning how to free ourselves from suffering.
Finding Freedom From Our Afflictive Emotions
Accessing our subconsciousness, experiencing our emotions and attaining insight. How are we “ready” to truly experience our emotions? How do we actually work with difficult emotions?
Recorded June 15, 2013
Understanding Afflictive Emotions and Suffering–A Dialogue
1) Understanding emotions in terms of the Buddhist concept of suffering; 2) Does spiritual maturity mean that we don’t have afflictive emotions? 3) What are the implications of not identifying with our emotions? 4) Facing the unknown in our afflictive emotions, in terms of understanding how our emotions arise; 5) Facing our emotions with courage and openness.
Recorded February 21, 2015
Can a Person Who Is Evil Be Transformed in This Lifetime?
1) Can a person who commits an unskillful action such as killing, lying, stealing or sexual misconduct be rehabilitated through an external therapeutic intervention. 2) Seeing how our behavior is influenced by cause and effect, or karma, and how that unfolds through our lives and from lifetime to lifetime: the concept of Dependent Origination. 3) Could a person like Jeffrey Epstein or Jeffrey Dahmer ever be rehabilitated? What would that person have to understand in order to change? 4) The modern scientific equivalent concept to karma as the idea of nature vs. nurture, or the idea of epigenetics and environmental conditioning. 5) The power of the Dharma in fostering the awareness and understanding that can bring about change. 6) Under what conditions can a person who is evil learn to change? 7) Learning gratitude for the Dharma for the gifts that it gives us in overcoming suffering and finding peace in our lives. The sense of personal empowerment that comes from the Dharma.
Recorded May 1, 2021
Hope
1) Understanding the three characteristics of conventional reality: karma, desire, and the illusion of self. 2) A question on the nature of hope in the face of our deep conditioning. 3) Hope as a positive aspiration for a positive outcome without expectation of outcome or hope as a form of clinging, addiction, and suffering. 4) Looking at hope from a personal level in terms of one’s spiritual development, and looking at hope from a social perspective in terms of the potential for the development of a humane society. 5) The question of hoping for security. Is that a false hope? Learning to find peace and equanimity in the impermanence of experience.
Recorded November 20, 2021