In this episode we connected with Amalée Rycroft to talk about the future from a youth perspective. Amalée follows the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, is half French, half British, and grew up in a buddhist family. She is the EBU contact for the European Buddhist Youth Network, a network of young Buddhists of all traditions. Amalée has a deep love and appreciation for education, the planet, and Buddhist wisdom. Among other things, she spoke about how, for her, the Buddhist idea of interdependence contains both the empowerment to act and kindness for ourselves when we don’t know what to do.

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This time we asked Žarko to present a practice that can be linked to the theme of the podcast episode. He introduced a contemplation exercise that includes objects as well as sense perceptions. A great exercise that could be done shortly or for a longer period of time. Try it out!

In this episode we connected with Chan master Žarko Andričević who currently lives in Zagreb, Croatia. In the #BasicTruthSeries category, we want to shed light on various core concepts of Buddhism and exchange with experienced practitioners about their meaning. So we began our journey with the first noble truth, dukkha, suffering. In the conversation with Zarko we found that the translation of the sanskrit term “dukkha” as “suffering” is rather inadequate. How can we understand this teaching of the Buddha and why is it important to face it?