Dharma Roadside Dialogue 2024

Dharma roadside dialogue

Dharma Roadside Dialogue 2024 #1

Dharma Roadside Dialogue 2024 #1 January

What about the Preliminary Exercises?
Is the preliminary practice stage essential?
What to do with resistance to undertaking this section of the path?
Where is the training in calm abiding (Samatha) in these exercises?

20240224_Dharma roadside dialogue #2 February Common Preliminaries

20240330_Dharma roadside dialogue #3 March. Extraordinary Preliminary practices

Body, speech and mind's attitude in the exercise of prostration.

Advice

About Prostrations

How to deal with mental distractions? For example going to the cinema or theater, reading a novel, social media, or watching TV. Does distraction come from the fact that the mind cannot find itself within itself, and is disturbed by perceptions, by forms, by sensations?
How can we stay on course when we are too lucid about what is happening in our society?

20240427_Dharma roadside dialogue #4 Dharma and social life.

20240427_Dharma roadside dialogue #4 April Dharma and social life.

The Power of Regret: recalling all of our negative actions in the past motivated by ignorance, attachment or aversion. 
Power of Reliance: Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels, Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.
The Power of Remedy: the mantra and visualization and mental focus on purification.
The Power of Restraint: or undertaking to refrain from creating negative karma (actions) in future.

20240525 Dharma roadside dialogue #5 The four transformative powers

20240525 Dharma roadside dialogue #5 May The four transformative powers

Resident Dharma Teacher at the Bodhipath Buddhist Center in Natural Bridge, VA

20240525 Dharma roadside dialogue #5 May The four transformative powers

Lama Tsony