Pariyatti

This story is from Toni Packer, the late, much-venerated Zen teacher. A student asks a Zen master for some principles of the highest wisdom.

narrated by Ian McCrorie · 2022 · 3 minutes 25 seconds

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Watch a baby for a while and you can't help but see how hard they are working. They are looking out on the world, trying to make sense of it all. They focus on this and then they focus on that. They react, sometimes with tears, ofttimes with a smile, indications that they have assessed the situation and found it wanting or fulfilling. When you place them on...

narrated by Ian McCrorie · 2022 · 5 minutes 13 seconds

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The Pirahã natives live in the upper Amazon rainforest. Daniel Everett is one of only three linguists who can speak their language. He lived with them for many years and discovered through their language that they appear to be the only people on Earth who live in the here and now. They are fully...

narrated by Ian McCrorie · 2022 · 3 minutes 31 seconds

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Many of us are busy with the business of being busy, and Knausgaard was no exception. His writing explores the busyness of his mind, especially with how he deals with his family. He explores the conditioned mind with objective honesty. Being busy can often be an affirmation of our status...

narrated by Ian McCrorie · 2022 · 3 minutes 38 seconds

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Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard wrote in "My Struggle" of a time when he was very sick. He couldn't move, and he lay on the sofa the whole day feeling miserable. His inability to move meant...

narrated by Ian McCrorie · 2022 · 3 minutes 49 seconds

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This series is inspired by a book we first published over a decade ago, entitled Realizing Change: Vipassana Meditation in Action (by Ian Hetherington). In Realizing Change we are given access to voices from around the world, who share in-depth accounts of their apprehensions before undertaking a ten-day course in Vipassana, their experiences during the course, and the subtle, yet profound, experience of change activated by the practice of Vipassana. People from every walk of life, country, culture, and age have found Vipassana a steady anchor in the gale-force winds of change that buffet us. By facing reality head-on through direct observation—rather than reacting—impermanence itself becomes the very medium of transformation.

Interview with Debra Barrett · interviewer: Sheldon Klein · 2022 · 50 minutes

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A man walked into his doctor's office and told him he was not doing well. He was in pain all over. “Everywhere I touch, it hurts,” he said. The good doctor gave him a battery of tests,...

narrated by Ian McCrorie · 2022 · 5 minutes 44 seconds

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If dukkha, “suffering” or “unsatisfactoriness,” is the first noble truth, wherein lies its cause? The Buddha discovered that the root of suffering lies in the human tendency to involve ourselves in...

narrated by Ian McCrorie · 2022 · 2 minutes 51 seconds

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In the Spirit of the Buddha an interview with Paul R. and Susan K. Fleischman.

Paul R. and Susan K. Fleischman · 2022 · 1 hours 33 minutes

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The yin-yang symbol is a graphic illustration of the human condition. Light represents happiness, gain, good health, etc., and darkness represents unhappiness, loss, poor health, etc....

narrated by Ian McCrorie · 2022 · 3 minutes 04 seconds

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