WELCOME TO THE COLLECTION OF VIDEOS FOR
THE BUDDHIST IMMERSION
Below you will find the video teachings and readings from our program
VIDEOS:
WEEK 1: WHAT IS MEDITATION, ANYWAY?
WEEK 2: THE LIFE OF THE BUDDHA
WEEK 3: THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS
WEEK 4: THE EIGHTFOLD PATH PART I
WEEK 5: THE EIGHTFOLD PATH PART II
WEEK 6: THE FOUR FOUNDATIONS OF MINDFULNESS
WEEK 7: THE TWELVE NIDANAS
WEEK 8: THE FIVE SKANDHAS AND HOW WE REIFY EGO
WEEK 9: KLESHA OR HOW TO WORK WITH STRONG EMOTIONS
WEEK 10: DISCOVERING YOUR BASIC GOODNESS
WEEK 11: EMPTINESS OF SELF AND OTHER
GUEST TEACHER KYLIE GAO ON EMPTINESS
WEEK 12: KARMA, INTERDEPENDENCE AND THE SIX REALMS
WEEK 13: LOJONG PART I
WEEK 14: LOJONG PART II
WEEK 15: LOJONG PART III
WEEK 16: LOJONG PART IV
WEEK 17: LOVING-KINDNESS AND THE FOUR BRAHMAVIHARAS
WEEK 18: COMPASSION
WEEK 19: SYMPATHETIC JOY AND EQUANIMITY
WEEK 20: TANTRA
READINGS:
WEEK 1: Excerpts from Indestructible Truth by Reginald Ray and Start Here Now by Susan Piver
WEEK 2: The Life of the Buddha on School of Life and Shakyamuni Buddha from Kagyu Office
WEEK 3: Is Everything Suffering by Thich Nhat Hanh and The Four Noble Truths resource guide
WEEK 4: The Noble Eightfold Path by Walpola Sri Rahula
WEEK 5: The Dharma of Right Livelihood by Maia Zenyu Duerr and Right Speech from the Insight Meditation Center
WEEK 6: Article on One Mind Dharma and an excerpt from Bhante Henepola Gunaratana’s The Four Foundations of Mindfulness in Plain English
WEEK 7: The Painful Reality of Samsara by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
WEEK 8: Identity and Selflessness in Buddhism: No Self or True Self? by Jack Kornfield
WEEK 9: No Time to Lose and Signs of Spiritual Progress both by Pema Chödrön
WEEK 10: Buddha-nature by Sharon Salzberg, Everybody has Buddha-nature by Tara Brach
WEEK 11: THE HEART SUTRA, plus excerpts from Reggie Ray's Indestructible Truth and Dza Kilung Rinpoche's The Relaxed Mind
WEEK 12: Excerpt from Reggie Ray's Indestructible Truth also here is an image of the Wheel of Life mentioned in the talk
WEEKS 13-16: For people who want to go digital, I recommend reading Judy Lief's commentary on the slogans here. For those who are more analog, I recommend following along in either Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche's book Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness or Traleg Rinpoche's The Practice of Lojong.
WEEK 17: Why Loving-Kindness Takes Time and Cultivate Goodness by Sharon Salzberg
WEEK 18: The Power of Unbearable Compassion by His Holiness the Karmapa
WEEK 19: Sympathetic Joy by Sharon Salzberg and Equanimity by Gil Fronsdal
WEEK 20: What is Tantra? by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche