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Mike talks to his Father (Dhammachariya Pannadipa) about moving from being a ‘full-on Buddhist’ to seeing the Dhamma everywhere and in every situation. Dhammachariya Pannadipa’s website is www.puredhamma.org. Comments and questions are welcome below
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Tom Talks to Robert Wolfe, author of the recently published Living Nonduality.
Robert has a website, where you can read the book online for free, or you can buy a real version over at karinalibrary.com.
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What is presented here can often run the risk of sounding vague and intangible, so to counter any nihilism or inactivity, Mike travels to Paris to talk Buddhist activism and Social Dharma with writer, scholar and long-term practitioner Martin Kovan. What does it mean to live from the heart on a day to day basis and why should we care?
Click here to access Martins articles, poetry and prose.
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Stephen Batchelor is a Buddhist writer and teacher, who trained in both the Tibetan and Zen traditions. He is well known for bringing contemporary worldviews to bear on traditional Buddhist teachings, some find his rejection of karma and rebirth controversial. I met up with him at Gaia House, a retreat centre in Devon, UK whilst he was teaching his annual Meditation and Study retreat with his wife Martine. A huge thank you to Stephen for taking the time to be interviewed :)
The music is by tom and is an arrangement of Yann Tiersen’s Comptine d’un autre été, which was popularised by the classic French film Amélie.
We got interviewed by Gilbert at the Urban Guru Café, stroll on over there to have a listen. Their site and its format was actually one of the inspirations for ours.
Happy Solstice :)
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Alan Chapman co-runs a website, with Duncan Barford, called Open Enlightenment, a website that is, in their own words, ”dedicated to the honest and down-to-earth discussion of the very real and natural human phenomenon known as enlightenment.” I met up with Alan at his home in London to discuss the nitty-gritty of life, the universe and everything. Thanks to Sigur Rós for their generous permission to use their beautiful track starálfur.
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This time we’re drawing on our roots in academia and religious studies and asking whether or not it’s possible to study the ineffable? Thanks to Keith Nightingale ( a real life Ho-tai) for letting use his title. Music from Whatthe Animalssay a kind of lap-top recording, globe-trotting, troubadour. It would be great to get some feedback on this topic as its close to our hearts. Feel free to comment and question below.
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This week we question what it is we’re all looking for and whether ‘Enlightenment’ really is as much hard-work as it sounds. Sound effects recorded in our kitchen during a particularly average Sunday lunchtime. Please feel free to comment.