Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism

By COCPB

What's Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism about?

We offer training and practice in various Buddhist meditation techniques as well as community celebrations such as weddings, funerals, celebrations of new children, etc. to all people in Central Ohio. We have a special mission to the LGBTQ community.

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Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism episodes:

07.15.2019
Dharma Talk: The Leonard Koan
This dharma talk explores the sessionation from suffering that arises when we let go of selfish grasping. Loenard Cohen's comments and thoughts on a zen practice are used as the basis for the discussion. This dharma talk took place at the...
07.10.2019
Dharma Talk: What Is Zen?
This dharma talk explors the meaning of Zen. It discusses what it means to live in fully in each moment. Consideration is given to some of the common misconceptions about Zen. This dharma talk took place at the Central Ohio Center...
06.24.2019
Dharma Talk What Is Pragmatic Buddhism?
What is Buddhism? This dharma talk explains the core principles of Buddhism - the four nobel truthes and the eight fold path. These concepts are discussed from the Pragmatic Buddhist postion that utilizes Western pragmatism to understand the dharma. This dharma...
06.18.2019
Dharma Talk: Being Comfortable With Discomfort
When we feel discomfort with another, it is us who brings the discomfort and not them. This dharma talk explores what it means to accept that discomfort and use it as the first steps to change. This dharma talk took place...
06.17.2019
Dharma Talk On Emotional Presence
This dharma talk explores the challenge of understanding emotional presence. This dharma talk took place at the Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism on June 9th, 2019. For more information, please visit us at http://www.cocpb.com/ Find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RainbowSanghaColumbus/
06.17.2019
Dharma Talk: The Many Faces Of Compassion
What are the different faces of compassion? Do we use a different face of compassion for ourselves than the one we show others? This dharma talk took place at the Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism on May 19th 2019. For more...
06.06.2019
Dharma Talk: I Am An Agnostic
What does it mean when someone calls themselves an agnostic? This dharma talk took place at the Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism on May 5th 2019. For more information, please visit us at http://www.cocpb.com/ Find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RainbowSanghaColumbus/
06.02.2019
Dharma Talk On Serenity
Images of serenity are synonymous with zen. This talk explores the relationship between skilful action and serenity: when is taking action the serene thing to do? This dharma talk took place at the Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism on May...
06.02.2019
Dharma Talk On Personal Transitions
A personal transition can be a very challenging time. What does it mean to be present during the transition? This dharma talk explores the meaning of presence during a personal transition. It emphasises how sitting zazen can help, the difference...
06.02.2019
Dharma Talk on Sati (Mindfulness) (Atthakavagga series 5)
The teaching of the Atthakavagga often to not focus on practice. This dharma talk focuses on the concept of sati (being mindful). The resulting discussion looks at how to take a practice off of the cushion and into everyday life. The...
04.22.2019
Dharma Talk: The Impermanence of Spring
When thinking of impermanence, it is easy to focus on when situations coming to an end. However, for true impermanence, the arising stage of a situation is just as important as its passing away. This dharma talk explores the meaning...
04.16.2019
Dharma Talk: No Bad Thoughts
This dharma talk explores the fundamental meditation practice of Buddhism. How do we approach the inevitable thoughts that arise during meditation? This dharma talk took place at the Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism on April 15th 2019. For more information, please visit...
04.07.2019
Dharma Talk: A Modern Parable About Annoyance
When we feel annoyed with something, or someone, it is us who brings the annoyance. The thing or the other person simply is, and it is we who are annoyed. This dharma talk presents a new parable to help explore our annoyances...
03.24.2019
Dharma Talk: Don't Burn The Sutras
Our Sangha often makes reference to the acceptability of burning the sutras. But if burning the sutras is acceptable, what is sacred? This Dharma talk explores the meaning of sacred to Pragmatic Buddhists. This dharma talk took place at the Central...
03.17.2019
Dharma Talk on What It Means To Be Happy
What does it mean to be happy? This talk explores how the four noble truths can help us understand happiness. This dharma talk took place at the Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism on March 17th 2019. For more information, please visit...
03.16.2019
Dharma Talk on Looking Inwards
Spending time with yourself can be challenging. Freed of the distractions and external inputs we have to look inwards. This is not always a comfortable experience. This talk using Chapter 64 of the Tao as a springboard to discuss how...
03.04.2019
Dharma Talk on Nyoho: In Accordance With The Dharma
What is the role of religious belief for a Western Pragmatic Buddhist? The dharma provides us with a context for being a Buddhist. This talk explores our dharma context and how we identify an appropriate middle path for our lives. There...
02.24.2019
Dharma Talk on The Body (Atthakavagga series 4)
What does the body tell us about our nature? It is easy to say that we should see past our physicality and focus on our spiritual being. But is it right to dismiss a significant element of ourselves? This dharma...
02.18.2019
Dharma Talk On The Buddha's Death
Everybody mourns a loss in a different way. There is no wrong or right way to mourn. This dharma talk explores how the parinirvana sutra that describes Buddha's death can help us approach loss. This dharma talk took place at the Central...
02.10.2019
Dharma Talk on Self Compassion
Why don't we offer ourselves the same compassion we offer to others? Often when evaluating ourselves we are very critical. We say things to ourselves that we would never say to another person. This dharma talk explores how we can offer...
02.03.2019
Dharma Talk on the Octet on the Corrupt (Atthakavagga series 3)
This dharma talk discusses dogma, traditions, and ritual. How can different tradions be combined to a modern, pragmatic philosophy? This talk is the third in a series based on the discourses of the Athakavagga. The Athakavagga sutras are some of the...
01.30.2019
Dharma Talk on Karma
What is the meaning of karma? Bad things happen to good people. Good things happen to those who have done wrong. Karma as more than a cosmic ledger that ensures everyone gets their just deserts? This talk explores the pragmatic...
01.29.2019
Dharma Talk Exploring Social Karma
Despite localized examples to contrary, the flow of society is towards increasing compassion, peacefulness, education, and connectivity. How do the upheavals and good fortunes in our personal life experience fit with this general flow of social karma? This dharma talk took...
01.27.2019
Dharma Talk on Body Awareness
We often focus on how to be more aware of our emotions and mental state, but what about our body? This dharma talk focuses on what our body is telling us and how physical sensations are just as important as...
01.27.2019
Dharma Talk: Content In Yourself
A dharma talk focusing on how to be content in yourself. This dharma talk took place at the Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism on December 9th 2018. For more information, please visit us at http://www.cocpb.com/ Find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RainbowSanghaColumbus/
01.23.2019
Dharma Talk: The Opposite Of What You Know Is True
The opposite of what you know is true. We live in a society with a diversity of opinions. This dharma talk explores how to coexist with family members, friends, colleagues, and strangers whose beliefs differ from our own. This dharma talk...
01.22.2019
Santa Koan Dharma Talk
This talk explores how aspects of Christmas traditions can help us better understand the dharma. This dharma talk took place at the Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism on December 23rd 2018. For more information, please visit us at http://www.cocpb.com/ Find us on Facebook...
01.20.2019
Dharma Talk on the Discourse on Aging and Death (Athakavagga Series 2)
A talk and discussion surrounding the discourse on aging and death from the Athakavagga. This talk is the second in a series based on the discourses of the Athakavagga. The Athakavagga sutras are some of the most ancient and scholars believe they...
01.20.2019
Dharma Talk on the Discourse on Sense Desires (Athakavagga Series 1)
A talk and discussion surrounding the discourse on sense desires from the Athakavagga. This talk is the first in a series based on the discourses of the Athakavagga. The Athakavagga sutras are some of the most ancient and scholars believe they...
01.14.2019
New Years Dharma Talk
As the New Year approaches and we begin to think about those "New Year's Resolution" this dharma talk explores how resolving to be more present can help prevent you from becoming Mr or Mrs Pissy Pants. This dharma talk took place...
11.18.2018
Dharma Talk on Joy
Inspired by The Book of Joy by the Dalai Lama Bishop Tutu, this dharma talk explores how we can be joyful while living in a world that contains so much suffering. This dharma talk took place at the Central Ohio Center...
11.10.2018
Dharma Talk On Gone Beyond
How do we honour those who have gone before? Why do we do it? Why do we care? The first thing the Buddha said on his awakening, "When this occurs that arises." So when we reflect on those who have gone...
10.29.2018
Dharma talk: I Shot Myself In Pittsburgh
We are all other to someone. In the wake of the shootings at a Pittsburgh synagogue, this talk focuses on understanding what it means to be other and understand the value of those we see as other. This dharma talk took place...
10.29.2018
Dharma Talk on The Book Of Mormon Musical
What makes a good teaching? In the musical The Book of Mormon, flagrantly false religious teachings bring good to the community that comes to believe in them. What does this mean for dharma teaching and the teaching in other religions? This dharma talk took...
10.28.2018
Dharma talk on the meaning of bowing
Buddhists often bow: people, to objects to spaces? In this talk and subsequent discussion, the significance and meaning of bowing are explored. This dharma talk took place at the Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism on October 14th 2018. For more information, please...
10.28.2018
Dharma Talk on Being a Buddhist
What does it mean to be a Buddhist, and how does that meaning change with increased experience? This dharma talk took place at the Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism on October 07th 2018. For more information, please visit us at http://www.cocpb.com/ Find us on...
09.25.2018
Dharma Talk on Not Self (Anatta)
Anatta, the concept of "not self", describes the idea that individual beings are not ridged and fixed, but ever changing and shaped by their relationships with others and to the world around them. This dharma talk explains the concept of...
09.17.2018
Dharma Talk on Dependent Origination
The concept of Dependent Origination - that all things are the result of causes and that all our actions bring about future results/consequences - could truly be considered the heart of the Dharma. This dharma talk took place at the Central...
09.13.2018
Dharma Talk on Tilopa's Six Nails
This dharma talk took place at the Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism on April 08, 2018. For more information, please visit us at http://www.cocpb.com/ Find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RainbowSanghaColumbus/
09.12.2018
Dharma Talk on Otherness
This dharma talk took place at the Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism on April 01, 2018. For more information, please visit us at http://www.cocpb.com/ Find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RainbowSanghaColumbus/
09.12.2018
Dharma Talk on Prayer with Novice Joe
Novice Joe shares his experience with prayer. He has much experience with prayer through his work as a hospital chaplain. Despite this, he felt it took him a long time to truly understand prayer so that he could pray in...
09.03.2018
Dharma Talk on Dukkha
What is dissatisfaction? Why do we feel it and how can we overcome it? This talk presents the Pragmatic Buddhist perspective. This dharma talk took place at the Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism on September 2, 2018. For more information, please visit...
09.01.2018
Prison of the Ego Dharma Talk
This dharma talk took place at the Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism on March 25, 2018. For more information, please visit us at http://www.cocpb.com/ Find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RainbowSanghaColumbus/
08.31.2018
Being Here Dharma Talk
This dharma talk took place at the Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism on March 18, 2018. For more information, please visit us at http://www.cocpb.com/ Find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RainbowSanghaColumbus/
08.30.2018
No Other Dharma Talk
This dharma talk took place at the Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism on August 19, 2018. For more information, please visit us at http://www.cocpb.com/ Find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RainbowSanghaColumbus/
08.29.2018
Scandal in the Sangha
This dharma talk took place at the Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism on August 26, 2018. For more information, please visit us at http://www.cocpb.com/ Find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RainbowSanghaColumbus/
03.15.2018
Buddhist Ethics
This dharma talk took place at the Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism on March 11, 2018. For more information, please visit us at http://www.cocpb.com/ Find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RainbowSanghaColumbus/
03.08.2018
Ethical Fallacy
This dharma talk took place at the Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism on March 4, 2018. For more information, please visit us at http://www.cocpb.com/ Find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RainbowSanghaColumbus/
03.02.2018
Buddhist Response
This dharma talk took place at the Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism on February 25, 2018. For more information, please visit us at http://www.cocpb.com/ Find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RainbowSanghaColumbus/
02.23.2018
90 Second Rule
This dharma talk took place at the Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism on February 18, 2018. For more information, please visit us at http://www.cocpb.com/ Find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RainbowSanghaColumbus/

What's Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Central Ohio Center for Pragmatic Buddhism episodes:

Dharma Talk: The Leonard Koan

Dharma Talk: What Is Zen?

Dharma Talk What Is Pragmatic Buddhism?

Dharma Talk: Being Comfortable With Discomfort

Dharma Talk On Emotional Presence

Dharma Talk: The Many Faces Of Compassion

Dharma Talk: I Am An Agnostic

Dharma Talk On Serenity

Dharma Talk On Personal Transitions

Dharma Talk on Sati (Mindfulness) (Atthakavagga series 5)

Dharma Talk: The Impermanence of Spring

Dharma Talk: No Bad Thoughts

Dharma Talk: A Modern Parable About Annoyance

Dharma Talk: Don't Burn The Sutras

Dharma Talk on What It Means To Be Happy

Dharma Talk on Looking Inwards

Dharma Talk on Nyoho: In Accordance With The Dharma

Dharma Talk on The Body (Atthakavagga series 4)

Dharma Talk On The Buddha's Death

Dharma Talk on Self Compassion

Dharma Talk on the Octet on the Corrupt (Atthakavagga series 3)

Dharma Talk on Karma

Dharma Talk Exploring Social Karma

Dharma Talk on Body Awareness

Dharma Talk: Content In Yourself

Dharma Talk: The Opposite Of What You Know Is True

Santa Koan Dharma Talk

Dharma Talk on the Discourse on Aging and Death (Athakavagga Series 2)

Dharma Talk on the Discourse on Sense Desires (Athakavagga Series 1)

New Years Dharma Talk

Dharma Talk on Joy

Dharma Talk On Gone Beyond

Dharma talk: I Shot Myself In Pittsburgh

Dharma Talk on The Book Of Mormon Musical

Dharma talk on the meaning of bowing

Dharma Talk on Being a Buddhist

Dharma Talk on Not Self (Anatta)

Dharma Talk on Dependent Origination

Dharma Talk on Tilopa's Six Nails

Dharma Talk on Otherness

Dharma Talk on Prayer with Novice Joe

Dharma Talk on Dukkha

Prison of the Ego Dharma Talk

Being Here Dharma Talk

No Other Dharma Talk

Scandal in the Sangha

Buddhist Ethics

Ethical Fallacy

Buddhist Response

90 Second Rule