The purpose of institutions and the importance of showing respect for the Buddha’s teachings.
The Buddha’s advice to laypeople
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Adapting monastic precepts to culture
Society has changed since the Buddha’s time. Examining what precepts would have been given for modern issues like usage of internet, recycling.
The view of the middle way
Middle way (or Madhyamaka) philosophy: the view of reality free from the extremes of absolutism and nihilism.
Visualizations and Brahma’s request
Practical advice on how to use visualization practices to overcome hurt, resentment, and guilt from the past.
Anger and selflessness
Examining our speech and the way our mind proliferates. How we grasp at true existence.
Women in Buddhism: Levels of ordination
Working towards gender equality in Western Buddhism: bringing up issues respectfully.
Community life and causality
Living with the attitude of “what can I give” as our daily meditation. Training to be a bodhisattva with fortitude and joyous effort.
The Buddha’s awakening
Continuing the story of the Buddha’s life and his awakening, and how we can become doctors to our own minds.
Space from sensual pleasures
Consciously moderating contact with certain things because of how they affect the mind and developing the Intention to learn and grow from bad experiences.
The Buddha’s homeless life
A continuing examination of the Buddha’s life, his period of austere practices, and a discussion about fear, habits, renunciation and finding peace.