Interviews with leading spiritual teachers and writers about their latest challenges—the "leading edge" of their work.
Bodhipaksa: Living as a River
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Tami Simon speaks with Bodhipaksa, a Buddhist teacher, author, and member of the Western Buddhist Order since 1993. He currently teaches Buddhism and meditation to prisoners and is the author of several books, including Wildmind: A Step-by-step Guide to Meditation, as well as the Sounds True audio learning programs Still the Mind and The Wisdom of the Breath. In this interview, Bodhipaksa discusses the fluid nature of identity: what he calls “living as a river.” (56 minutes)
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Thank you Tami and Bodhipaksa.
Embracing change is so very difficult but it is exactly what brings us together. When we help each other cope with change in earnest — the many become one. Our pretense falls away and there we are in vibrant authenticity as givers and receivers, each in our turn. Like many tributaries, we become one river. Very “fluid”, certainly.
As Tami puts it: Many voices, one journey! Beautiful!
Best wishes with the new book!
Comment by Jo-Ann Triner — October 30, 2009 @ 8:59 pm
This is the second entry I read tonight. And I am on my third. Got to think which one is next. Thank you.
Comment by hotspot shield — November 5, 2009 @ 7:12 pm
We are not what we think we are? Interesting. We are just a flowing process of evolving. There is nothing personal about it. Nothing is personal. We could say we have no self or we could say we are a new self each moment.
We can offer loving kindness to the parts of ourself that we don’t like so much. These parts are really in terrible pain. We could be a good accepting friend to these parts of ourself and to others.
One problem of conceit, greed, hate, and delusion, in other words our normal way is life, is that they do not make us happy. If they did we would see a lot more happy people walking around.
If we could learn to compassionately embrace our fear and insecurity much of our suffering would dissolve.
Bodhipaksa seems to have the ability to make Buddhist teachings very practical to our moment to moment lives. Thank you. A theme I am noticing is that many of these teachers take internet comments very seriously. May we be kind to each other.
Comment by Stan — January 15, 2010 @ 11:10 am