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    Esoteric and Everyday Buddhism with Ben Connelly

    Esoteric and Everyday Buddhism with Ben Connelly

    FromA Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment

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    Esoteric and Everyday Buddhism with Ben Connelly

    FromA Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment

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    Length:
    48 minutes
    Released:
    Jan 4, 2022
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Soto Zen Teacher Ben Connelly joins us to explore the relationship between science and reality, whether karma really exists, and how to be a Buddhist activist while remaining unattached to "winning." In the process, Ben teaches us about the ancient Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu and what the Yogacara school of Buddhism teaches us about taming our minds.Episode 97: Esoteric and Everyday Buddhism with Ben Connelly Support the show (https://www.skepticspath.org/support/)
    Released:
    Jan 4, 2022
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment brings the inner science of Buddhist meditation to twenty-first century people hungry for happy, meaningful lives. It is a secular approach to meditation that requires no belief beyond our current understanding of science and psychology. Skeptic’s Path meditations are based on powerful analytical meditation techniques that use imagination, emotions, and critical inquiry to probe our inner and outer realities and expand our compassion. These Tibetan Buddhist mind training techniques expand on the popular mindfulness approach to meditation to help us better understand our minds from the inside out, and build healthy mental habits that are the true causes of happiness. Each week in discussions, guided meditations and interviews, we explore the vast variety of analytic meditation topics including love, compassion, sleep, tonglen, vipassana, stress, the body, meditation posture, anger, anxiety, addiction, grief, forgiveness, patience, confidence, loneliness, work, relationships, and more.