The Maitripa College Podcast

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**The Maitripa College Podcast**

We are a Tibetan Buddhist graduate school located in Portland, Oregon. Our podcast features accessible Buddhist teachings from different scholars and practitioners in America today.

Latest Episodes:

Episode 23. Refuting Misconceptions About Meditation with Yangsi Rinpoche Feb 25, 2020

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Episode 23. Refuting Misconceptions About Meditation with Yangsi Rinpoche

Episode 22. The Dharma Takes Root: Tibet and the West, and the Foundation of a Meditation Practice Feb 11, 2020

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In this, the second of a series of teachings on the lamrim and meditation, Yangsi Rinpoche explains how Buddhism took root in Tibet through the story of Lama Atisha, and how it is slowly taking root in the west. This episode also includes an introduction to developing a regular meditation practice.

Episode 21. Introduction to the Lamrim Chenmo, the Gradual Path to Enlightenment by Yangsi Rinpoche Jan 28, 2020

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In unique accessible language, Yangsi Rinpoche presents in summary the historic context of Atisha’s Lamp of the Path to Enlightenment. Rinpoche explains why the traditional spiritual journey is rooted in linage, Nagarjuna and Asanga’s influence on the tradition, and how lineage functions to create the merit that will support our spiritual life and progress towards enlightenment.

Episode 20. The Bodhisattva vow: What it means to wish for and engage in actions leading to enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings Jan 14, 2020

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In this week’s episode, from Maitripa College’s Philosophy 302 class, Yangsi Rinpoche teaches on the Bodhisattva vow and gives commentary on exactly what it means to wish for and engage in actions leading to enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. In discussion, the class explores the differences between Aspiring and Engaging Bodhicitta, as well as the practice of wisdom and ethics that is the foundation of the Bodhisattva vow.

Episode 19. The Buddha’s Wisdom: The Importance of Dependent Origination with Jan Willis, PhD Nov 12, 2019

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In this talk, Professor Willis focuses on a unique and quintessential teaching of the Buddha. Using narratives and key texts from the tradition, Professor Willis’ uniquely warm and approachable demeanor invites the listener to connect to and engage with the liberating wisdom of the Buddha’s foundational insight.

Episode 18. Mother, Daughter, Sex Worker, Nun: Transgressing and Transforming Gender Roles in Buddhist Narratives with Damchö Diana Finnegan PhD Oct 29, 2019

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Among the Buddha’s most prominent female disciples were sex workers, mothers, and the nuns who formed the female monastic order. Narratives of the lives of these earliest Buddhist women show them struggling to emerge, with varying degrees of success and failure, from the places in which a patriarchal society kept them.This talk explores ways in which the limitations placed on women in early Buddhist communities were challenged or transgressed, and ways in which they were ultimately reinforced. We will ask what these narratives can teach today’s Buddhist communities as we seek to identify and liberate ourselves from our own notions of gender that restrict women’s spiritual potential.

Episode 17. Enlightenment: Is There An App For That? with Yangsi Rinpoche Oct 15, 2019

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In this talk, Enlightenment: Is there an App for that?, Rinpoche invites us to look closely at how we try whatever way possible to find the shortcut to happiness and even enlightenment. Rinpoche grapples with the reasons we seek an easy way out, and how meditation practice can help us cut through the tendency to look outwards for someone or something to take away our suffering and travel our own creative path of freedom.

Episode 16. Introducing Buddhism: Our View of the World and Our Place In It with Venerable Damchö Diana Finnegan, PhD Oct 01, 2019

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In “Introducing Buddhism: Our View of the World and Our Place In It” with Venerable Venerable Damchö Diana Finnegan, who holds a PhD in Buddhist Studies as well as extensive translation and practice experience, we learn that the purpose of Buddhist philosophy is to function as a window through which to view the world. Venerable Damcho explains how studying the words of the Buddha leads to a greater exploration of how we see things and people and how we relate to them, and the way this profoundly affects our relationships with others.

Episode 15. Integrating the Heart Sutra in the Practice of Meditation on Emptiness with Yangsi Rinpoche Sep 17, 2019

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In Integrating the Heart Sutra: Meditating on Emptiness, Rinpoche offers an approach to meditation on emptiness that reveals how to feel a healthy sense of self.

Rather than “redecorating” our mediation, Rinpoche advises to “clean up” our practice through allowing our fundamental nature to arise. In this case, non-action, patience, acceptance and allowing can put us in touch with our Buddha nature.

Episode 14. From Reactivity to Joyful Effort: Balancing the Mind in Meditation with Yangsi Rinpoche Aug 20, 2019

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Balancing the Mind in Meditation begins with an eloquent explanation of joyful effort. Rinpoche proceeds to guide us on a meditation journey analogous to the balancing act of a pilot flying a plane while keeping her eye on the horizon. Enjoy this rare and essential teaching about how to maintain an uplifted mind while facing the ups and downs of the everyday world.

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