Foundational Teachings

Number of episodes: 89

The Four Noble Truths form the foundation of Buddhist teachings and provide a profound understanding of human suffering and the path to liberation. Embracing these truths empowers individuals to understand suffering, transcend it, and attain genuine contentment and enlightenment.

Number of episodes: 99

This is a central practice in Buddhism, one that offers a profound method for cultivating awareness and insight. Mindfulness of the body, feelings, the mind and entails observing thoughts and emotions without judgment, leading to a deeper understanding of the mind’s nature.

Number of episodes: 44

The seven factors represent key mental qualities cultivated in Buddhist meditation to awaken wisdom and enlightenment. By developing these factors of mindfulness, energy, joy, investigation, tranquility, concentration and equanimity, practitioners can overcome hindrances and attain profound insight, leading to spiritual liberation and awakening.

Number of Episodes: 18

Buddhist virtues are ten qualities of mind that support and encourage us in our path to spiritual awakening. They are commonly known as virtues or “paramis” and are: Generosity, Morality, Renunciation, Wisdom, Energy, Patience, Truthfulness, Determination or Resolve, Lovingkindness and Compassion, and Equanimity. Embracing these virtues leads to a profound transformation of the mind and heart.

Number of Episodes: 14

This teaching is a fundamental framework within Buddhist philosophy and psychology. It describes the interconnectedness between the sensory organs and the objects of perception. These six sense spheres encompass the five conventional senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, along with the mind as the sixth sense. It highlights the illusion of a permanent self.

Number of Episodes: 25

Hindrances are mental factors that disturb our meditation and obscure insight. They are: sensual desire, ill-will, sloth and torpor, restlessness and worry, and doubt. Recognizing and overcoming these hindrances through mindfulness and wisdom is vital for cultivating a clear and focused mind, leading to a deeper understanding of oneself and the world and ultimately attaining spiritual liberation.

Number of Episodes: 1

1) What is the Buddhist cosmology and how does it relate to the process of birth and rebirth in samsara? 2) Defining the process of samsara or transmigration; 3) The six realms of existence; 4) Redefining rebirth as the mind states we experience in our present life; 5) How our mind states in this life color our rebirth in the next life?

Number of Episodes: 21

The fundamental components to explain the nature of existence and the self. They are the physical body and material elements; the sensory experience of pleasure, pain, or neutrality; perception, mental formations and consciousness. By understanding that all phenomena are impermanent and interdependent, we can understand the non-self and the nature of reality.

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Emptiness or Sunyata

March 14, 2026

Topics Include:  1)  The definition of emptiness or sunyata;  2)  Emptiness of the subject or the self;  3)  The Buddha’s teaching of anatta or non-self;  4)  The five aggregates of clinging and the idea of karma;   5)  Emptiness of the object of our experience or the world outside of us;  6)  The story of King Milinda;  6)  The emptiness of subject and object;   7)  Understanding the role of language;   8) Understanding our unity with our experience and our interconnectedness with all life on earth;   9)  The emptiness of all views;  10)  Trusting in our pure awareness to guide us in facing the decisions of life, not our conditioning;  11) Seeing emptiness as a means to see the beauty of reality as it truly is.  12) Experiencing the reality of the teaching in the laboratory of our own lives.