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Ep. 15 David Nichtern

The Road Home with Ethan Nichtern

David Nichtern visits The Road Home Podcast for a conversation that explores the evolution of spiritual tradition, practicing in the modern era and balancing spiritual practice with our roles in life.

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33:58

Is the Spiritual Path a Lonely One?

Venerable Thubten Chodron responds to a student's reflections on whether practicing the Dharma is a lonely endeavor.

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Thubten Chodron
2017
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How to Free Your Mind: The Practice of Tara the Liberator

Tara, the feminine embodiment of enlightened activity, is a Buddhist deity whose Tibetan name means "liberator," signaling her ability to liberate beings from the delusion and ignorance that keep them trapped in ever-recurring patterns of negativity.

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Thubten Chodron
2024
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Love Hurts: Buddhist Advice for the Heartbroken

Buddhism has a lot to say about suffering—and there are likely few times we suffer more intensely than when we break up with a romantic partner. It feels like you may never recover sometimes.

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Lodro Rinzler
2016
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Why So Many Americans Are Turning to Buddhism

The ancient Eastern religion is helping Westerners with very modern mental-health problems.

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Olga Khazan
2019
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FindCenter Quotes ImageAffliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

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C. S. Lewis
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What's the Use of Suffering

The biggest mistake we can make, according to the Buddha, is to discount or minimize our suffering. Why? Because it is the fiery gate through which we must pass to engage the spiritual path.

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Reginald A. Ray
2001
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How to Study the Dharma

In Buddhism, an ever-deepening understanding unfolds naturally from intellectual study. This process is classically expressed in the teaching of the three prajnas, or kinds of knowledge—hearing, contemplating and meditating.

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Reginald Ray
2004
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26:10

Spiritual Life, Spiritual Direction God in You, Part 1

Dan speaks of his own suffering and conversion and gives advice on how to heal from the suffering.

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2014
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11:30

Growing with Suffering | Ram Dass Lecture 1980S

1980's. Ram Dass gives lecture on internal and external suffering. He says that resisting our suffering creates more suffering for ourselves and for other people. We need to practice listening, and to observe the way the mind responds to somebody's story.

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Ram Dass
2014
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16:21

Gangaji: the Need to Heal

If what it is you want it to simply to be done with this woundedness then you will continue to search for something that temporarily at least makes you feel better.

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Gangaji
2017
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