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• December 17, 2022Episodes

  Episode 074: Being Present w/Loss and Grief; Practices of a Bodhisattva #31

  The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast - Episode 074 Being present with loss and grief. while loss is universal, the experience of grief is individual. it cannot be compared to previous experiences, or those of other people. once we own our own process, grief and loss become part of the path. easier said than done, but this is the path of bodhisattvas, yogis and Buddhists in recovery.

• December 9, 2022Episodes

  Episode 073: ***25 YEARS SOBER***, When the Present is the Past

  The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast - Episode 073 “The essence of trauma is that it is overwhelming, unbelievable, and unbearable. Each patient demands that we suspend our sense of what is normal and accept that we are dealing with a dual reality: the reality of a relatively secure and predictable present that lives side by side with a ruinous, ever-present past.” (Van der Kolk, 2014, p. 195)

• December 3, 2022Episodes

  Episode 072: Insight Into What?

  The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast - Episode 072 So called insight meditation practices are perhaps the most widely diffused in the west, in terms of what people think of as buddhism. today we'll expand our view and understand something of value when it comes to the nature and meaning of the next level of dharma teaching as it pertains to concentration, insight into our recovery and ourselves as compassion seeking addicts in recovery.

• November 25, 2022Episodes

  Episode 071: Emotional Surrender – How to Be Non-Toxic

  The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast - Episode 071 Emotional Surrender: How to Be Non-Toxic. Addicts are very sensitive, empathic, highly emotional creatures. The inability to be comfortable in our own skin creates suffering that contributes to our addiction and other dysfunction. How does Dharma deal with toxic emotions and people?

• November 19, 2022Episodes

  Episode 070 – Wait for It… Patience Never Comes; Practices of a Bodhisattva #27

  Teachings ask us to practice the perfection or paramita of patience. But as any good addict knows, it’s never fast enough for us. We operate on our own time, often […]

• November 5, 2022Episodes

  Episode 069 -The Horny Buddhist: Sex and the Dharma; Practices of a Bodhisattva #26

  How does a Buddhist deal with the sex drive, sex roles, morays, expectations, taboos in the dharma, and the dharma of recovery? What role does trauma, particularly sexual trauma, play […]

• October 29, 2022Episodes

  Episode 068: The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast – Making Buddhist Amends; Practices of a Bodhisattva #25

  How does a Buddha make amends? In 12-Step, we learn the necessity not of insincere apology, but absolute willingness to right the wrongs we’ve done. Given that we’ve accumulated infinite […]

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  October 21, 2022Episodes

  Episode 067: The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast – Sacred Space; Practices of a Bodhisattva #24

  From the beginning of beginningless time, when we separate subject and object, we create infinite causes for suffering.

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  October 14, 2022Episodes

  Episode 066: The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast – Effortless Meditation with Guest Instructor Igor Berkhin

  This week, we meditate effortlessly. Join me as we practice together with an excellent instructor in the Dzogchen space.Igor Berkhin is a long-term meditation practitioner, a Buddhist translator, and a […]

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  October 8, 2022Episodes

  Episode 065: The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast – How Deep is Your Dharma; Practices of a Bodhisattva #23

  Do you want to be free of suffering, or do you love it too much? Training on the path of compassion will ultimately free us from all attachments, if we […]