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2019-03-15 Off-Week Book Review: Why Buddhism Is True
2019-03-15 Off-Week Book Review: Why Buddhism Is True
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Length:
8 minutes
Released:
Mar 15, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
I review Robert Wright's Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment. While it's not necessary to know the "why" of things in order for Buddhist practice to be effective (and it can actually be a distraction), sometimes it can help us gain additional freedom from our subjective experiences.
Released:
Mar 15, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
57 - Dogen's Bendowa Part 1: What's the Big Deal about Zazen?: Zen master Dogen wrote Bendowa in 1231 to introduce his Japanese students to Soto Zen. In a sense, then, it's "Soto Zen in a nutshell." In this episode I introduce the text and the context in which it was written, and talk about how and why Dogen... by The Zen Studies Podcast