In order to find the true happiness and freedom that are available, we must understand this clearly. We must experience a revolution in our perception of the material world. Inside each one of us resides the truth; and however deeply buried or obscured that truth has become, we have the ability to uncover and experience it for ourselves— and happiness and freedom will follow.

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Defiance means standing up for what you know is right, rejecting patriarchal human dogma, and embracing the search for meaning with a steadfast engagement with reality. It means seeing clearly our mind’s fears and attachments as impersonal, conditioned phenomena and destroying the misidentification with the mind’s confusion. Beneath the confusion we will find the heart’s natural wisdom and compassion. The spiritual revolutionary defies both the internal and external forces of oppression.

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Defiance means standing up for what you know is right, rejecting patriarchal human dogma, and embracing the search for meaning with a steadfast engagement with reality. It means seeing clearly our mind’s fears and attachments as impersonal, conditioned phenomena and destroying the misidentification with the mind’s confusion. Beneath the confusion we will find the heart’s natural wisdom and compassion. The spiritual revolutionary defies both the internal and external forces of oppression.

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The Buddha’s teaching our quite clear; he only teaches the truth of human suffering, what causes our suffering, our happiness, and a method, a technique, an experience that leads to the end of suffering.

So whatever our personal aspiration is, whether it's, “I want total freedom, or I want just a little less suffering”, when we enter the Buddhist path we are offered a path, a technique, a process of understanding reality, understanding the human condition, our minds, our hearts, our bodies, this form and this world that we are living in; understanding it in a way that gives us the ability to respond wisely and therefore end suffering.

The Buddha’s teaching our quite clear; he only teaches the truth of human suffering, what causes our suffering, our happiness, and a method, a technique, an experience that leads to the end of suffering.

So whatever our personal aspiration is, whether it's, “I want total freedom, or I want just a little less suffering”, when we enter the Buddhist path we are offered a path, a technique, a process of understanding reality, understanding the human condition, our minds, our hearts, our bodies, this form and this world that we are living in; understanding it in a way that gives us the ability to respond wisely and therefore end suffering.

In and of itself, money is nothing more than paper and metal to which societies have assigned great meaning. Yet it has become a necessity for most of us. We need money to survive in the modern world. Regrettably, the human tendencies toward greed and jealousy often turn money into a source of suffering.

We are constantly fed messages about how money equals happiness. But money never equals true happiness. It affords us comfort and pleasure, but that is all—and pleasure isn’t the same thing as happiness. The proof, should we need it, is that rich people suffer too.

As with everything else, money is not the problem; it is our relationship to money that causes us to suffer.

This Buddhist Dharma Talk is based on 'Against The Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries'. We’re making all of 'Against The Stream' available for free on our blog (one piece at a time). LINK in episode notes.

In and of itself, money is nothing more than paper and metal to which societies have assigned great meaning. Yet it has become a necessity for most of us. We need money to survive in the modern world. Regrettably, the human tendencies toward greed and jealousy often turn money into a source of suffering.

We are constantly fed messages about how money equals happiness. But money never equals true happiness. It affords us comfort and pleasure, but that is all—and pleasure isn’t the same thing as happiness. The proof, should we need it, is that rich people suffer too.

As with everything else, money is not the problem; it is our relationship to money that causes us to suffer.

This Buddhist Dharma Talk is based on 'Against The Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries'. We’re making all of 'Against The Stream' available for free on our blog (one piece at a time). LINK in episode notes.

How do we bring mindfulness into all aspects of our being, of our activities? One of the core traditional ways we get the training off of the cushion and into activity, is walking meditation.

How do we bring mindfulness into all aspects of our being, of our activities? One of the core traditional ways we get the training off of the cushion and into activity, is walking meditation.

When we practice mindfulness and allow sexual energy to be the object of awareness, rather than allowing ourselves to be a slave to the libido’s every request, we begin to relate to sexuality rather than from it.

Sexual suffering is caused not by the energy itself, but by our own inability to understand and skillfully deal with that energy. At its most unskillful extreme—as manifested in all of the rape and sexual abuse that occur daily in this world—sexuality is closer to violence or hatred than to love or beauty. But even those of us who are attempting the spiritual path—doing our best to pay attention, practicing our meditation and mindfulness, and trying to be as compassionate and skillful as possible—still struggle with intimate relationships, though such relationships are a tremendous source of joy.

This Buddhist Dharma Talk is based on 'Against The Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries'. We’re making all of 'Against The Stream' available for free on our blog (one piece at a time). LINK in episode notes.