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One night a man lost his keys. He looked for them under a street lamp. A friend walked by, saw him looking for something, and asked him what he lost.

narrated by Ian McCrorie · 2022 · 4 minutes 09 seconds

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For my father’s entire life, I was not a parent. In his presence I reverted to a child-like sense of entitlement. His world revolved around me and this, I thought, was how it should be. I had my family after he had passed away. And it was only as my boys got older and I dealt with all the practical aspects of child-rearing that I fully appreciated all my father had done. I loved him all the more and grieved his...

narrated by Ian McCrorie · 2022 · 3 minutes 26 seconds

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Nature doesn't lie. It acts according to natural laws. And human nature, too, doesn't lie. It plays out as a series of causes and effects. If the inputs are negative, stifling, abusive, or spiteful, the immediate effects may be unpleasant. Even if there is no evidence of any negative aftermath, in time, inauspicious acts invariably lead to a myriad of unintended and unforeseen negative circumstances. Rare is it to find a criminal who doesn’t feel remorse about his deeds and who is not also suffering ten-fold due to substance abuse, turning as he would to...

narrated by Ian McCrorie · 2022 · 4 minutes 37 seconds

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This talk by Paul R. Fleischman was given at the 2022 virtual conference by The Association of Buddhist Care and Counseling. Paul's talk is titled "The Buddha's Teaching on Non-violence" based on his book The Buddha Taught Nonviolence, Not Pacifism.

Paul R. Fleischman · video host: John Freese · 2022 · 20 minutes

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A healthy component of the practice is to stay awake to encroaching spiritual materialism. This danger begins to raise its head after you think of yourself as an experienced practitioner. You may judge your practice as quite advanced. You pat yourself on the back. You start acquiring compliments. Thoughts that you might teach someday may flutter through your consciousness. Don’t indulge in these meanderings. Keep an eye on them as you would a spot of crabgrass on an otherwise pristine lawn.

narrated by Ian McCrorie · 2022 · 3 minutes 15 seconds

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An abscessed tooth forced me out of my hut and into Bombay, as it was known then, to see a dentist. I had his name on a piece of paper and was assured he was ektampukkha, “a cheap but best” dentist. No one was in the waiting room, and he said he could take me right away, two facts that should have warned me to be careful. Once I was in the chair, he quickly concluded my tooth was...

narrated by Ian McCrorie · 2022 · 3 minutes 25 seconds

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I had an aunt who lived on a forty-acre estate west of Toronto. The manor house was an Elizabethan structure with separate breakfast and dining rooms, a full maid's quarters, apple orchards, and a forest with deer and other wildlife. In the late afternoon we would dress for tea and retire to the screened porch off the living room. My aunt would put Mozart on the hi-fi, and we would eat cucumber sandwiches. The tea service was...

narrated by Ian McCrorie · 2022 · 3 minutes 19 seconds

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When you find yourself in a hole, first stop digging. Trite but true, when we find ourselves in this predicament, we need to lay down the activities that led us to be that deep in the hole. When I found myself in an alcohol-induced hole, I let all the alcohol-related activities go. These included for a time even good friends...

narrated by Ian McCrorie · 2022 · 3 minutes 37 seconds

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When the venerable Thai teacher, Ajahn Chah,was asked what technique of meditation he taught, he replied frankly, “I teach frustration.” Doing non-doing can be in itself frustrating, but in the hands of a meditation master it can be nuclear.

narrated by Ian McCrorie · 2022 · 4 minutes 31 seconds

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In India they trap monkeys with a bamboo cage. The cage has a small opening just large enough for the monkey's hand to slip through. They slide a banana through the hole and wait. The monkey smells the banana and twists his hand through the hole and grabs the banana. Success. Or so he thinks, until...

narrated by Ian McCrorie · 2022 · 4 minutes 31 seconds

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