• 229: Root and Insight (Hetu and Vipassana)
    Mar 31 2026

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  • 228: Root (Hetu)
    Mar 24 2026

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    28 mins
  • 227: An Explanation of the Right Understanding
    Mar 17 2026

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  • 226: Walking Meditation and Insight
    Mar 10 2026

    The practice of walking meditation is explored as a powerful method for developing Vipassana insight. By mindfully observing each step—lifting, pushing, and dropping—the meditator begins to notice the intentions in the mind that give rise to physical actions. Through careful observation, the relationship between mind and matter becomes clear: intention is the cause, and bodily movement is the effect.

    As mindfulness deepens, practitioners may experience the subtle arising and passing of movements, revealing the fundamental characteristics of existence—impermanence (anicca), suffering (dukkha), and non-self (anatta). Walking meditation becomes a practical way to cultivate insight, accumulate wholesome merit through mental development, and gradually free the mind from delusion and defilements.

    This teaching encourages meditators not to underestimate walking meditation, showing how even simple mindful steps can open the path toward wisdom and liberation.

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  • 225: Back to the Basics of the Practice
    Mar 4 2026

    We return to the foundations of Buddhist practice by exploring the Five Aggregates — material form (rupa), feeling (vedana), perception (sanna), mental formations (sankhara), and consciousness (vinnana) — the components that make up what we call the “self.” From this understanding, we examine how the Four Foundations of Mindfulness arise: mindfulness of body, feeling, mind, and Dhamma.

    The talk emphasizes that whichever object becomes most prominent — body, feeling, or mind — can serve as the doorway to insight. With steady mindfulness, supported by effort and concentration, wisdom gradually develops. Like polishing a tarnished brass bowl, repeated and continuous practice removes layers of defilement accumulated over countless lives.

    Through persistent cultivation of the Noble Eightfold Path, each moment of precise mindfulness becomes a stroke of the paddle carrying us across the ocean of samsara toward Nibbana. A practical reminder of what truly matters in the journey of insight meditation.


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  • 224: Mahanama Sutta: Practicing While Being a Lay Buddhist
    Feb 28 2026

    In this episode, we explore the Mahanama Sutta, where King Mahanama asks the Buddha how laypeople can find stability and peace in the midst of a chaotic, worry-filled world. The Buddha responds by teaching the importance of cultivating the Five Spiritual Faculties: faith, effort, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom. With these as a foundation, one can practice the Six Recollections — reflecting on the qualities of the Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha, morality, generosity, and the virtues of celestial beings.

    Through these practices, the mind becomes free from greed, anger, and delusion, giving rise to joy, calm, happiness, and concentration. This teaching offers a practical path for busy everyday people to live with steadiness and inner peace while walking the path toward liberation.

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  • 223: About Feeling
    Feb 18 2026

    In this talk, we explore Vedana (feeling) as a key mental factor in Buddhist meditation and daily life. The teacher explains how feelings arise as pleasant, unpleasant, neutral, and how they are classified in different ways in the teachings of the Buddha. By learning to observe feelings with mindfulness, listeners discover how to prevent craving and aversion, understand impermanence, and break the cycle of suffering through Satipatthana Vipassana practice.

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  • 222: Non-self, No Soul in Daily Life
    Feb 15 2026

    In this talk, we explore the Buddhist teaching of Anattā (non-self) as it appears in everyday life. Through simple examples like eating, seeing, aging, and thinking, the speaker explains how mind and body function through cause and effect rather than a permanent “self” or soul. Listeners are encouraged to observe daily experiences mindfully to develop a direct, experiential understanding of non-self and deepen their meditation practice.

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    24 mins