Speaker: Jennifer Shippee. Jennifer expounds on how all sentient beings, without exception, are connected in their desire to be happy and to avoid the pain of suffering. Jennifer invites us to contemplate equanimity, loving-kindness, compassion, and sympathetic joy on a daily basis. By establishing a deep familiarity with the bodhisattva vow and the four immeasurables contemplation, how we relate to the world will naturally shift.
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Birth, Death, Practicality and Devotion: The Dharma in My Everyday Life (Link #762)
Speaker: Sarah Ellsworth. Sarah shares how the Dharma informs and enriches her work as a nurse and midwife. Although shift work and long hours can make it challenging to maintain a consistent meditation practice, her professional life offers profound opportunities for spiritual growth. She reflects on how her contemplations of the Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind Towards the Dharma are vividly present in her daily work. Sarah describes how the Dharma softens and ripens the heart and mind, which has lead to a deep sense of contentment and happiness in her personal relationships. The inner shift that Dharma brings not only transforms one's own experience but also creates space for those around us to change and grow as well.
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Pilgrimage in Tibet (Link #761)
Speaker: Katherine Teahen. Katherine recounts the sights and sounds of a pilgrimage she made to Tibet thirty years ago, reflecting on how the journey profoundly transformed her relationship with the Dharma. Drawing from her journal entries written during the trip, she offers a vivid portrayal of the sacred sites she visited. Her time spent in caves and shrines associated with great masters such as Vimalamitra, Guru Rinpoche, and Longchenpa became moments of deep connection with the lineage and teachings. By retracing her steps to Lhasa and sharing these reflections, Katherine hopes to inspire other practitioners to embark on their own pilgrimages and deepen their spiritual practice.
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Unshakable Confidence (Link #760)
Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la shares open questions he is exploring on how to develop genuine confidence in our own direct experience of life in a world full of contrasting information. He describes the complexity of making a commitment to the path amidst contemporary discourses overloaded with opinions. Rather than providing answers, he offers a few questions for reflection including, (1) How do we reconcile the universal insights of Dharma with our culturally conditioned narratives, including those shaped by culture, family, and personal identity? (2) How can we have genuine confidence in our experience in an age dominated by relativism, where our experience is constantly questioned by cultural trends and competing worldviews? (3) How do we cultivate a healthy sense of self that is not rooted in ego clinging?
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Finding a Path Through the World (Link #759)
Speaker: Bill Bothwell. Fresh out of retreat, Bill shares his journey from a young poet and songwriter to his encounter with the Buddhadharma and becoming a student of Choygam Trungpa Rinpoche. Taking to heart Rinpoche's instruction that working within society is a necessity on the spiritual path, Bill became a lawyer. He recollects the essential teachings of his root teacher who challenged his students to embrace the view that conventional society was an expression of the ultimate truth, and that our tendency to judge others and our habit of wanting to fix things disrupts our ability to experience the natural purity of the world. Bill also shares experiences of his time at Naropa University with Alan Ginsburg, and Trungpa Rinpoche's instruction that his students call themselves Buddhist in order to establish an enlightened society of serious practitioners while living a conventional life.
At the heart of the Buddhist path is the individual practitioner who integrates the teachings with his or her own experience. Posting weekly since August of 2009, the Link Podcast features pithy teachings by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, Dungse Jampal Norbu, and Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel that illustrate the creativity and practicality that are the hallmarks of being a successful meditator. Talks by students of Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche offer an intimate window into the spiritual paths of Western students of Buddhism as they bring the teachings to life in their own unique and personal ways. Most talks in this podcast draw from a weekly Live broadcast on Sundays at 10 am Mountain Time.
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