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A cross-tradition conversation between two teachers on accepting imperfection.
Original source
Tsoknyi Rinpoche teaches 'handshake meditation', his method for meeting difficult emotion in the body.
Real World Records' official video for Happiness Is…, one of Yungchen Lhamo's best-known songs.
Real World Records
Iain McNay asks him how a punk bass player ended up a Sōtō priest, and what he thinks the robes are worth.
Conscious TV
An hour and a half on his training with Nishijima, on dissolving the organisation he inherited, and on teaching without a lineage to lean on.
Guru Viking
Seven minutes from his own organisation on how he came out of Tibet and ended up teaching in the West.
Chagdud Gonpa Dordje Ling
The closing mantra of the Heart Sutra, in a studio recording from her own channel.
Drukmo Gyal
A teaching on the Heart Sutra, from Tulku Lobsang's own YouTube channel.
YouTube
The Heart Sutra set to music and filmed at Ikkyu-ji in Kyoto by the Zen priest and singer Kanho Yakushiji.
Kanho Yakushiji
An interview recorded at Karma Tashi Ling in Oslo in April 2009 about what Buddhism can offer people today.
KarmaTashiLing
Ayya Tathaaloka on what is known about women in the early sangha and on how much of it went missing from the record.
Tathālokā Therī
Tara Springett tells how a method she had not set out to develop came out of her work with clients.
Kundalini Support
Geshe Tenzin Zopa recounts his difficult relationship with his father and how Buddhist practice brought him to forgiveness.
Study Buddhism
A talk recorded for The Buddhist TV on why noting is meant to produce insight and not calm.
Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu
Riley Lee talks through his beginning in 1970, the instrument itself, and what carrying the komusō repertoire has meant for his own playing.
Riley Lee Music
The first part of a teaching on the Buddhist account of mind: what thoughts and emotions are made of, and why that makes them workable.
Ven. Robina Courtin
A Talks at Google session on self-acceptance, drawn from Haemin Sunim's Zen background.
A talk recorded at his own Yeru Bon Center on what it takes to receive the Bön teachings rather than only hear them.
Yeru Bon Center
The opening session of a teaching series on cultivating a bodhisattva's motivation and conduct in daily life.
Himalayan Buddhist Meditation Center Kathmandu
An hour-long conversation in which Ty Powers is interviewed about staying present with discomfort in practice and in daily life.
studio BE
Sixteen minutes on altruism as the one thing that answers all three timescales of our trouble at once.
TED
A talk followed by a guided meditation, hosted by Rick Hanson.
Rick Hanson
On working directly with difficult emotion as raw material rather than an obstacle.
Nine minutes of solo bamboo flute on Schlefer's own channel: the honkyoku Ichijo, from first breath to last.
James Nyoraku Schlefer - Shakuhachi
Sarah Powers introducing Insight Yoga, her weaving of yoga, Buddhism and Chinese medicine.
Sangha Live
A long conversation with the biologist Rupert Sheldrake on what science and the contemplative traditions each say about reality.
Rupert Sheldrake
Half an hour mapping how the schools actually differ on emptiness, without taking sides early.
Lama Jampa Thaye
A half-hour conversation from January 2021 on his life, his lineage and the Bön tradition outside Tibet.
Latri Nyima Dakpa Rinpoche
Thubten Chodron is interviewed about her life as a Buddhist nun and her teaching work, in an interview filmed for Korean television.
Sravasti Abbey
The Mahasi approach of noting, taught step by step: walking, sitting and the rest of the day.
The opening session of a four-day retreat on the four foundations of mindfulness.
Yayasan Satipatthana Indonesia
The opening session of a teaching on Langri Tangpa's eight verses, the short Tibetan text on turning everyday encounters into practice.
Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre
The second session, working through the verses on meeting ill-treatment and on seeing others as the source of one's own practice.
The chant with which the monks invite the enlightened beings to be present before a ritual begins.
Monks of Gaden Shartse Dokhang
A Talks at Google session on what proximity to death can teach about how to live.
The opening invocation of the Gyuto tantric choir, sung in the overtone chant for which the monastery is known.
The Gyuto Monks Of Tibet
Kornfield draws on decades of Buddhist practice and psychology to ask what healing actually requires.
An interview on the Guru Viking podcast about jhana practice under Pa Auk Sayadaw.
A dharma talk and led jhana meditation at the San Francisco Dharma Collective.
SF Dharma Collective
Roshi Joan Halifax's widely viewed TED talk distinguishing empathy from compassionate action.
The first part of a long interview, on the Chikushinkai school he teaches in and on what he inherited from Yokoyama Katsuya.
Markus Guhe
A conversation on karma and rebirth within classical Buddhist cosmology.
An hour on the three subjects people actually ask about, given at the Chinese Institute of Classical Learning.
Khenpo Sodargye's Teachings
A public talk given at Lerab Ling in France in October 2010 contrasting the lojong training in compassion with a competitive mindset.
Lerab Ling
An introduction to Dzogchen as the Bön tradition transmits it, recorded during a visit to Argentina.
Bon Dzogchen Argentina
Dza Kilung Rinpoche discusses realization and the Dzogchen path.
Shambhala Publications
Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche is interviewed on the practice of kindfulness.
Conscious Collective
A discourse on udayabbaya ñana, the insight into arising and passing away that opens the middle stretch of the vipassana path.
Saraswathy S
An hour on what a kundalini awakening can set off, and on the difference between a passage and a crisis.
Live-streamed dhamma talk by Ajahn Dtun.
BSV Dhamma Talks
A Talks at Google session on working with anger as part of the path, not apart from it.
A long-form interview in which Lama Surya Das describes his years of study in the Tibetan tradition and his teaching work in the West.
Buddha at the Gas Pump®
Roger Walsh and John Dupuy interview Lama Surya Das about self-knowledge, his years in silent retreat and what he calls the path of awakefulness.
Deep Transformation Podcast
An introduction to Feeding Your Demons, Allione's method adapted from Chöd practice.
A narrated reading drawn from The Peaceful Stillness of the Silent Mind, covering Lama Thubten Yeshe's life from Sera Monastery through his 1959 exile to co-founding FPMT.
Samaneri Jayasāra - Wisdom of the Masters
Lessons on living well drawn from years of accompanying people who are dying.
A short talk at Sravasti Abbey on why the classical Indian treatises are studied at all, and what changes in someone who studies them.
A long lecture on Zen as a way of seeing, given to a university audience.
University of Latvia
A wide-ranging conversation on Zen practice, kensho and what a genuine teacher offers.
A live performance by Yungchen Lhamo recorded in WNYC's Jerome L. Greene Performance Space.
WNYC
Nicole Baden explores why sitting with an open question, rather than rushing to an answer, is itself a Zen practice.
Tatsudo Nicole Baden
Phakchok Rinpoche teaches on finding a genuine rhythm of happiness in daily life.
Samye Institute
Tenzin Palmo explains the lojong mind-training tradition in a session hosted by Clear Mountain Monastery.
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo Archive
The opening class of her course on lorig, the Tibetan study of how the mind knows things.
Geshe Kelsang Wangmo
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche reflects on the practice of taking refuge as a path to self-love.
RinguTulku
A talk on holding both love and rage honestly, drawn from Owens's book of the same name.
The first Bönpo lusang and lutor offering to the water spirits on the coast of Calabria, led by him in September 2025.
Foundation for the Preservation of Yungdrung Bön
He demonstrates the tsalung, tummo and thrulkhor movements and breathing from the Mother Tantra of Yungdrung Bön, alongside a new practice manual.
On keeping a practice going once the retreat is over, and on what bodhicitta looks like in an ordinary week.
Tushita Meditation Centre
A talk on Lama Yeshe's image of a mind wide enough that nothing thrown into it disturbs the whole.
Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom
Nearly two hours at Naropa on treating society as a single body, which is where the bakery and the street retreats came from.
Naropa University
A long talk on what a feed does to a mind, and what the training offers in its place.
Ajahn Sona
The mantra of the Medicine Buddha, arranged and sung by Kanho Yakushiji.
Sangye Khadro teaches on meditating on emptiness, a core Buddhist view of how things exist.
Shantideva FPMT-Israel
Tias Little leads a short guided meditation using sound and vibration to deepen awareness of the body.
Prajna Yoga
Tias Little leads a guided meditation inviting a felt sense of ease and delight throughout the body.
Tias Little leads a short guided meditation bringing attention into the bones as a way of settling the body.
A teaching on balancing concentration practice with open enquiry.
Ten minutes on how a Brazilian investment banker became a monk, and on the centre he now helps run in Florida.
Who Gets to Decide?
A ritual sung in the overtone style of the Gaden Shartse monks, in which a single voice sounds more than one note at a time.
Gaden Shartse Monks
The former abbot of Namgyal Monastery on how the Tibetan tradition maps mind into its parts, and why that matters in practice.
Maitripa College
How anapanasati is practised in the forest tradition, given at his own monastery in California.
Abhayagiri
A recording of Kornfield's long-running Monday Night Dharma Talk at Spirit Rock.
A portrait of the Zen calligraphic painter Alok Hsu Kwang-han, who teaches students to paint from the silence before thought.
Kino Lorber
A teisho on case 17 of the Mumonkan given at Tahoma One Drop Zen Monastery, delivered in Japanese with DaiChi Zenni's consecutive English interpretation.
Tahoma One Drop Zen Monastery
A teisho on the first case of the Mumonkan, Joshu's "Mu," given in Japanese with ShoE Zenni's consecutive English interpretation.
A conversation with Pamutto Bhikkhu about how a Canadian musician became a forest monk.
A Dharma Sunday teaching that uses fungal networks under the forest floor as a working image for dependent origination and for why a separate self does not hold up.
Natural Dharma Fellowship
Documentary on Lama Zopa Rinpoche's life and his connection to Tibetan Buddhist culture, with interviews.
Mystic Tibet (2002)
One session of an ongoing teaching on Nagarjuna's Ratnavali, the letter of advice to a king that sets out both worldly conduct and emptiness.
Drepung Loseling Institute of Texas
One honkyoku played whole, live in Helsinki: Nagashi Reibo, the Kinpu-ryū piece on yearning for the bell, on solo shakuhachi.
Dhamma as something found in nature rather than in a scripture.
Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu Archive
A monk who cared for his own mother for years talks about practice inside family obligations.
Tisarana Buddhist Monastery
The Great Compassion Dharani with strings, filmed at Ikkyu-ji in Kyoto.
Where the three systems agree about non-duality and where they part, set out by a geshe trained in debate.
Geshe Dorji Damdul
Khenchen Tenpa Yungdrung Rinpoche on the fourteenth-century master Nyamme Sherab Gyaltsen and the place he holds in the Bön lineage.
Ten Directions Channel
Yungchen Lhamo performing the mantra chant Om Mani Padme Hung live in Switzerland, posted to her own channel.
Yungchen Lhamo (official channel)
An hour and a half in San Francisco, with more room for the Buddhist side of the argument.
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
An hour and a half with Jon Joseph of Pacific Zen Institute on storytelling as a form of practice.
Pacific Zen Institute
An hour with Stephen Batchelor on where practice and making things meet, and where they get in each other's way.
Tricycle
A short documentary built around a conversation with Linda Clair on happiness.
Thomas D-W
He talks about Dolpo in northern Nepal, the high valley he comes from and one of the last places where Bön has been practised without interruption.
Khyungdzong
A Dharmata Foundation talk on working with the restless, wandering 'monkey mind'.
A talk from Birken Forest Monastery on what living in the woods does to attention.
Spring Washam discusses race, wisdom, and creative awakening.
Albert Flynn DeSilver
A dialogue between Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Tara Brach on emotional openness in practice.
A teaching on working with anger and other negative emotions through Buddhist practice.
A line-by-line commentary on Drukpa Gyaltsen's mind-training text on releasing attachment to this life.
ChagTong ChenTong Tasmania FPMT
A young boy in northern India discovers he is recognized as the reincarnation of a Tibetan monk, and travels to trace what that means.
Real Stories / Little Dot Studios (licensed distributor)
Dependent origination explained as pattern rather than as a chain of causes.
A Super Soul Sunday conversation on welcoming difficulty rather than resisting it.
Pema Chödrön on meeting fear directly rather than being ruled by it, drawn from Smile at Fear.
A dharma talk by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi at Chuang Yen Monastery.
BAUS Chuang Yen Monastery
Prayers of request, chanted with cymbals, drum and the long horns that belong to the monastic liturgy.
Tibetan Monks of Gaden Shartse
Phakchok Rinpoche discusses his book Awakening Dignity in a public bookstore talk hosted by Northshire Bookstore.
Northshire Bookstore
A dharma talk on taking up what is yours to carry instead of putting it down.
Village Zendo
A teaching of more than three hours on carrying the lamrim into work, family and the ordinary week.
Choe Khor Sum Ling
More than two hours at Choe Khor Sum Ling in Bangalore on taking the teachings into an ordinary working day.
A teaching in Kathmandu on how practice is meant to work inside an ordinary day rather than apart from it.
Stanzin Teri
The first session on Tsongkhapa's praise of dependent arising, the text in which emptiness and cause and effect are shown to need each other.
Atisha Centre
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