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Clear Mountain Monastery Podcast

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Dharma talks from monastics at Clear Mountain, an aspiring Buddhist Forest monastery in the greater Seattle area. The Forest Tradition represents a return to the simple way of life taught by the Buddha. Monastics aspire to live as the early disciples did: dwelling in the forest, studying the teachings, and devoting themselves to meditation. To learn more, visit https://wwww.clearmountainmonastery.org.
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Former counselor & music exec, host Joanna Basile brings you off-the-cuff conversations with some of her favorite people and well-known friends. Listen as Basile & Co. take deep dives into unexpected topics that may enlighten, motivate and even challenge you. Join her on the road to redemption as she navigates life in the middle lane.
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In this talk, Ajahn Nisabho speaks about orienting ourselves towards experience using the Four Noble Truths, relying on their framework to transmute suffering into Enlightenment, as fusion transforms matter into light.www.clearmountainmonastery.org による
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In this talk, Ajahn Nisabho speaks to the Mahāyāna critique of the Theravāda arahant ideal as selfish, questioning the dichotomy and pointing back to present-moment awareness of what good practice entails for each of us.www.clearmountainmonastery.org による
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In this interview, Joseph Goldstein speaks about his teacher, Munindra-ji, his encounters with the famous meditator, Dipa Ma, "the experience of zero", moments of awakening, how to integrate deep Dhamma practice into a lay life, the shared insight unifying Buddhist traditions, and more!www.clearmountainmonastery.org による
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In this talk, Ajahn Nisabho describes the 12 links of Dependent Origination, or Paṭiccasamuppāda, the Buddha's model for how avijjā, or ignorance, leads to suffering. By understanding the model clearly, we can step outside of it.www.clearmountainmonastery.org による
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In this session, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho interview Francisco Gable and Rachel Lewis about the practices of compassion and emptiness, especially as taught by Bhante Analayo.www.clearmountainmonastery.org による
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In this session, we discuss the "suffusion with the divine abidings" instructions:"I will abide pervading one quarter with a mind imbued with loving-kindness, likewise the second, likewise the third, likewise the fourth, so above and below, around and everywhere, and to all as to myself. I will abide pervading the all-encompassing world with a mind…
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In this session, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho interview author, translator, and teacher Bill Porter, aka Red Pine, about the art and practice of translation and encountering living and deceased hermits in mountains and texts.www.clearmountainmonastery.org による
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In this session, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho interview influential Tibetan Buddhist teacher Anam Thubten, touching on such subjects as Dzogchen, Rigpa, "pointing out instructions", and their possible Theravada correlates.www.clearmountainmonastery.org による
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In this session, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho interview Gil Fronsdal about "Naturalistic Buddhism", the experience of jhāna, Stream Entry, Insight Meditation Center's reliance on dāna, parenting, and other topics. Gil is the founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California and the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz,…
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In this interview, Geshe Delek Wangmo, visiting Sravasti Abbey, speaks about becoming a nun at fifteen, undertaking a 1000-mile prostration pilgrimage, helping build Dolma Ling Nunnery in Dharamsala, and studying for over twenty years to become one of the first women to ever earn the title of "Geshe".…
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In this session, Ajahn Kovilo shares reflections on how our practice of the five precepts can support our practice of abandoning the five hindrances, drawing out resonances between:1) ill-will and killing;2) restlessness and stealing;3) sensual-desire and sexual misconduct;4) dullness and lying;5) doubt and intoxication.…
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In this interview, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho interview Tan Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto focusing on the first foundation of mindfulness - kāyānupassanā. Topics touched upon include mindfulness of the bodily postures, bodily activities, the 32 parts of the body, element meditation, the knowing element, the perception of light, Awakening, shifting fou…
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In this interview, Ajahn Kovilo, Ajahn Nisabho, and Ayyā Ahiṃsā interview Venerable Thubten Chodron, abbess of Sravasti Abbey in Washington State, about her decades of experience training monastics.www.clearmountainmonastery.org による
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In celebration of the annual three-month Rains Retreat, Ajahn Kovilo challenges listeners to come up with specific determinations in the realms of:- Giving (dāna): How will bring giving more into your life?- Morality (sīla): How will you make virtue more a part of your life?- Meditation (bhāvana): How will you add more mental cultivation to your li…
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In this interview, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho speak with Andrew Berns, a professor at the University of South Carolina, about his research into Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism, and ancient traditions of magic, and their convergence with elements of Buddhist thought.www.clearmountainmonastery.org による
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Send us a text Join Basile and Black Shag's Tommy Daley for his first ever podcast! Discover Tommy's inspiring journey from glam rocker and record intern to Nashville entrepreneur and leader in vintage fashion. Listen as he shares tales from the '90s Sunset Strip music scene, the famed Melrose Avenue, his rise at the iconic Capitol Records and the …
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In this session, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho interview Father Scott, a Trappist monk at Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey in Carlton, Oregon. For more information, visit https://trappistabbey.org/www.clearmountainmonastery.org による
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In this session, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho interview Venerable Yangten Rinpoche, touching on such topics as the experience and value of monastic life, prayer and karma, emptiness and interdependence, bodhicitta, and other topics.www.clearmountainmonastery.org による
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In this interview, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho ask Yangten Rinpoche about what is required to receive a Geshe degree, the nature of Emptiness, what Theravāda and Mahāyāna can learn from one another, and reflections from his years working as His Holiness the Dalai Lama's assistant. Ven. Thubten Damcho generously served as the translator.…
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In this talk, Ajahn Kovilo speaks about the perception of light (ālokasaññā) in meditation and daily life, touching on various metaphors and analogies from the Pāli Canon and from modern teachers.www.clearmountainmonastery.org による
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In this session, Ajahn Kovilo speaks about the importance of hospitality (paṭisanthāra) in Buddhism, reading from the Buddhist Monastic Protocols on hospitality, and discusses how the skill of hosting transfers to skill in meditation.www.clearmountainmonastery.org による
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In this talk from the June 30th "CM3" Almsgiving Ceremony at St. Mark's Cathedral - Seattle, Luang Por Pasanno speaks about the foundations of practice - generosity (dāna), integrity (sīla), and mental cultivation (bhāvanā).www.clearmountainmonastery.org による
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Send us a text Ever hear of Ice Bath Sundays? Well neither did we until Dr. Charlie exposed us. Here is the next episode of Unrehearsed with Dr. Charlie aka the Musician's Physician. Immediately following a communal ice bath, the freshly frozen pair discuss the difference between ice baths, cryotherapy, and cocaine as well as our innate need for co…
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In this talk, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho teach about the "Wellbeing Cascade" spoken about in the Upanisa Sutta, which describes how wellbeing (pāmojja) leads to rapture (pīti), tranquility (passaddhi), pleasure (sukha), concentration (samādhi), and eventually to liberation (vimutti). To practice well, we must learn to cultivate the bright state…
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In this session, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho interview Dr. Eben Alexander, author of the New York Times Best Seller, "Proof of Heaven", about the near-death experience he had while in a coma, and the new vision of reality and human spiritual evolution it granted him. You can find out more at http://ebenalexander.com/. Additional research may be …
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In this talk, Ajahn Kovilo discusses the Clear Mountain community as being an example of the six principles of non-decline (aparihāniyā dhamma), also known as the six principles of cordiality (sāraṇīya-dhammā):Loving-kindness by body, speech, and mind,Giving, virtue, and views of Noble kind.www.clearmountainmonastery.org による
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In this session, Ajahn Kovilo will speak on interpretations of the Pure Land and the concept of "rebirth by aspiration" as it appears in Majjhima Nikāya 120 (https://suttacentral.net/mn120/en/sujato).www.clearmountainmonastery.org による
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Send us a text Discover if it's storytelling or shit talking with storied percussionist Jackie Bertone on the latest episode of Unrehearsed. Basile and Bertone go back over 30 years and have had plenty of shared, eyebrow-raising moments in the studio. Hear them chronicle their experiences with Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys as well as Jackie's esc…
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