Enlightenment in This Very Lifetime |
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Life is short and goes by quickly. There are more important things in life to do than the things that consume most of our time. We must try to live a life where we know we did the best we could and... |
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A Lama Sumati Marut Podcast
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Show's Description
True and lasting happiness is the goal of all authentic spiritual practices says Lama Marut, Buddhist monk, former University professor and popular American teacher of general spirituality, Tibetan Bu
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An Interview with Lama Marut, Part 2 |
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Lama Marut here challenges some of the current Western understandings of Buddhism. As Buddhism comes to our culture we must be careful not to just extract what we find comfortable in Buddhism and ign... |
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Getting Off of Planet Absurdo |
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We live in a society where our own science encourages us to believe that things happen just randomly and that life is meaningless. If we are to ground our morality in an understanding of real causali... |
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Fighting the Power |
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In order to live a happy life, we must resist the diversions of the secular life. Consumer capitalism cannot bring the happiness it promises, and we are living testimonials to this. We obtained ever... |
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An Interview with Lama Marut |
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Lama Marut talks informally about Buddhism as a radical alternative to the “shopping mall culture” of modern West, and how the Buddha’s dharma should appeal especially to young people looking fo... |
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There is a Method to Achieve Total Happiness: The Four Arya |
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In this final podcast on working on a daily basis for our highest happiness, Lama Marut urges us to check on our morality every few hours, do something for someone else every day, practice the “cou... |
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There is a Method to Achieve Total Happiness: The Four Arya |
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In this second segment on how to develop a daily practice, Lama Marut picks up with the daily “morning loll” in which, before getting out of bed, we remember that each day could be the last one we... |
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There is a Method to Achieve Total Happiness: The Four Arya |
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In order to achieve the goal of a spiritual life " total and complete happiness " we have to retrain ourselves on a daily basis. In this first of three podcasts on how to develop a good daily pra... |
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There is an Alternative to Suffering: The Four Arya Truths, |
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The Buddha said that suffering is not inevitable. Buddhism, like all religions, holds out the promise of perfect happiness in the future. But we must work toward this goal in part by practicing bein... |
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Suffering Has a Cause: The Four Arya Truths, Part Two |
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The second of the Buddha’s fundamental teachings is that suffering is caused. If we can stop the causes for unhappiness which we ourselves are perpetuating, we can stop our pain. To do this, howev... |
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