The Road Home with Ethan Nichtern
Oren Jay Sofer visits the Road Home Podcast for a conversation about integrating our spiritual practices into how we communicate.
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Despite our best-laid plans, life is difficult, and we sometimes experience anger, anxiety, frustration, and doubt. This emotional chaos can negatively affect the way we live our lives.
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A short talk on how shift from ways of using power in our interactions that are defensive and lead to power struggle to gaining far greater power by using non-defensive communication skills.
Thubten Chodron on how to develop bodhichitta, the aspiration to attain buddhahood in order to benefit others.
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Question: Buddhist teachers, including the Dalai Lama, often speak of happiness as a goal (if not the goal) of Buddhist practice. I don’t begrudge anyone happiness, but making it so central to spiritual life feels self-serving. Am I misunderstanding what’s meant by “happiness”?
Venerable Thubten Chodron gives an overview of why we would want to learn about emptiness and teaches on the emptiness of persons and phenomena.
Venerable Thubten Chodron speaking on Bodhicitta and relationships.
This teaching, from the author of THE BUDDHA WALKS INTO A BAR, asks us to contemplate what it means to bring mindfulness and compassion into the realm of sex and dating.
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I recently interviewed Scott Shute, Head of Mindfulness and Compassion at LinkedIn on his thoughts about compassionate leadership.
Scott Shute, the head of Mindfulness and Compassion at LinkedIn, shares a few simple gestures that can help foster compassion in our workplaces, families, and communities.
The Buddhist practice of mindfulness first caught on in the West when we began to understand its many practical benefits. Now Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D., introduces a practice with even greater life-changing power: compassion.