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Episode 54: Do no harm

Episode 54: Do no harm

FromBuddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox


Episode 54: Do no harm

FromBuddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox

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Length:
37 minutes
Released:
Oct 20, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The teachings of Buddha show us how to develop habits of happiness and peace. By practicing mindfulness we can train our mind and become anyway we want. No matter how confused, lonely, anxious or angry we are habitually, we can change. In this episode, we look at a verse that distill all of Buddha's teaching into three practices: Do no harm Practice what’s skillful Purify your mind  The great Tibetan Buddhist Master Je Tsongkhapa, explains how to practice mindfulness, "examine your physical, verbal, and mental actions all day and all night. By this means, you will put an end to miserable rebirths. However, if at the outset you are not versed in the classifications of cause and effect, understanding only a fragment of their depth and having a lax attitude with your physical, verbal, and mental actions, then you are merely throwing open the door to the miserable realms." It is difficult to be born a human;  Difficult is the life of mortals;  It is difficult to hear the true Dharma;  Difficult is the arising of buddhas. (182)    Doing no harm,  Practice what’s skillful,  Purify one’s mind:  This is the teaching of the buddhas. --Buddha, The Dhammapada References Buddha. The Dhammapada: The Buddha’s Path of Wisdom. Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita. Buddhist Publication Society Kandy, 1985. pp. 48.   Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, by Je Tsongkhapa, Volume 1. Translated by the Lamrim Chenmo Translation Committee. Joshua Cutler, Editor-in-Chief, and Guy Newlan, Editor, pop. 210-245.   
Released:
Oct 20, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox is a weekly podcast that shares how to put the teachings of Buddhism into practice to be happier, more peaceful, or to become the spiritual warrior this world so desperately needs. JoAnn Fox has been teaching Buddhism for 17 years and does so with kindness and humor.