Urban Dharma Podcast

A talk on Walking Meditation given to the UCLA Buddhist Club. I was invited to lead a walking meditation at the Change of Heart weekend retreat (2/3 to 2/5/2006). This talk came from that experience.

From the web site... The weekend of Feb 3rd to Feb 5th will change our hearts and minds alike. We will create a tent city and spend the entire weekend outdoors to better understand what it is like to be without a home, without family to turn to, and without the comforts we take for granted in our daily lives. We do this to build empathy for our fellow homeless brothers and sisters who spend every night out on the streets.

We will sleep in cardboard boxes and will eat only the food that is donated to us. We will participate in many activities and workshops to learn more about global poverty, homelessness, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and other social causes to nurture our minds as well as our hearts. - http://www.bethecause.org/coh/

Questions and answers from a workshop at the Spirituality and Healing in Medicine Conference - Boston, December 2005. A variety of topics were covered... Sex, death and dying, karma, heaven, the problem with oneness, etc. This conference was sponsored by the Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education and George Washington University. A complete list of conference presentations can be found at:

http://www.conferencerecording.com/aaaListTapes.asp?CID=SAB25

A talk to the UCLA Buddhist Club on the spiritual journey... What to do and how to do it.

Enlightenment vs Nirvana... Mahayana and Theravada... are they the same or different, is one better than the other? Just some of the questions I try and answer in a talk to the UCLA Buddhist club.

A talk given to yoga instructors at True Yoga (www.trueyoga.com) in Thousand Oaks, California on the how's and why's of concentration meditation.

A talk given at One Spirit Center for Conscious Living called, "Going Beyond, Pain and Suffering." I got to sit in with the house band and played some harmonica blues, then singer and songwriter Harold Payne performed an original blues tune.

A talk given at the UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica to the new chaplains on "Buddhist Patient Health Care" and end of life issues. For more information go to: www.kusala.org and click on, "A guide to death, dying and good health in Buddhism."

Part 2 of a presentation to a comparative religion's class at a Catholic High School in Los Angeles on Basic Buddhism - 10/20/2005

Part 1 of a presentation to a comparative religion's class at a Catholic High School in Los Angeles on Basic Buddhism - 10/20/2005

A talk given to the UCLA Buddhist club on Karma. What is Karma, how to use Karma to be happy, end suffering and have a good rebirth. Following the talk there were questions and answers on different aspects of Buddhist philosophy and practice.