Compassion (Karuna) Dharma Talk Video of the Compassion Dharma Talk This is the sixth talk of the Awakened Heart Series and this talk looks at the Compassion (Karuna) https://zenawakened.com/awakened-heart/ The Second Element of True Love The second element of true...
Metta (Loving-Kindness) Dharma Talk Video of the Loving-Kindness Dharma Talk This is the fifth talk of the Awakened Heart Series and this talk looks at the Metta (Loving-Kindness) https://zenawakened.com/awakened-heart/ The First Element of True Love The first element...
Video of the Four Thoughts Which Turn the Mind Toward Freedom Dharma Talk Video of the The Four Thoughts Dharma Talk This is the fourth talk of the Awakened Heart Series and this talk looks at the Four Thoughts Which Turn the Mind Toward Freedom...
Vajrasattva asks Samantabhadra: How is it that we as self-perfected Buddhas can enter and experience the samsaric dimension from the samsaric point of view? Samantabhadra responded: In order for this to happen, and it is a great sport yet fraught with many dangers,...
Better for Being Broken Dharma Talk Video of the Better for Being Broken Dharma Talk This is the third talk of the Awakened Heart Series. https://zenawakened.com/awakened-heart/ Kintsukuroi The poet, teacher and lawyer John Sean Doyle had this to say about...
Be Soft Like Water Dharma Talk Video of the Be Soft Like Water Dharma Talk This is the second talk of the Awakened Heart Series and this talk looks at softening. https://zenawakened.com/awakened-heart/ Be Soft Like Water Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as...
The Ah Mantra A The perfected Buddhas rise from A (AH). This A is the most sublime of all the letters. The A can conquer all samsaric and nirvanic states. The A is like the mother giving birth to everything. The A is like the father all-creating; magical. The A is...
Introductory Dharma Talk on the Four Immeasurables and Shamatha Meditation Video of the Four Immeasurables Dharma Talk We now start the new Awakened Heart Series of talks. These talks will gently guide us to open up and heal that tender heart of ours. We will be...
Heart of Vajrasattva This prayer written by Guru Rinpoche protects those who have fallen prey to ignorance and impaired their samayas. This popular confessional prayer was structured around the short six-syllable Mantra of Vajrassattva, Om Vajra Sattva Hum. It was...
Right Samadhi Dharma Talk Video of the Right Samadhi Dharma Talk RIGHT SAMADHI (samyak-samadhi) At long last we finally come to the eighth stage or limb of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path. Here once again we come across the gnarly issues that translators face in...
