The CyberSangha Podcast
Join Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, other CyberSangha® hosts, and invited guests for illuminating teachings, guided meditations, and science/spirituality dialogs.
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Episodes
Wednesday Jan 08, 2025
Wednesday Jan 08, 2025
Episode 5, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"
Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Join Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche for a live online teaching as we begin Month 3 of his new yearlong program, “Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion.” Free and open to all! Our focus this month is on meeting any loneliness we may experience in our body, speech, and mind with openness and warmth, clearing and opening a deeper, more fulfilling sense of connection to ourselves and others.
In advance of the broadcast Rinpoche encourages creating a bit of space for meditation in your house — in a quiet, peaceful location where you can feel some sense of warmth and connection to yourself. You might provide a comfortable cushion to sit on, and a candle or stick of incense. A supportive outer space can support your inner space during meditation.
Wednesday Jan 01, 2025
Wednesday Jan 01, 2025
Episode 4, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"
Featuring: psychologist Ann Friedman, Ph.D.; researcher and thought leader Jud Brewer, M.D., Ph.D.; Tibetan meditation master Geshe Tenzin Wangyal; and host Alejandro Chaoul-Reich, Ph.D.
We welcome you to join us online as experts from the realms of science and spirituality share their best practices for living with and healing from anxiety. Nearly everyone is familiar with the sense of tension, worry, and insecurity that anxiety brings. When severe, anxiety can limit our daily activities. What is its ultimate source? Can we prevent or limit the symptoms? Are we better off ignoring them, or going closer to them? What role can meditation play?
“As a psychologist, having panic attacks brought me to my knees,” says panelist Ann Friedman. “Today, I consider it one of the blessings of my life, allowing me to find mindfulness, which helped me eliminate the panic attacks and minimize my anxiety.”
Wednesday Dec 25, 2024
Wednesday Dec 25, 2024
Episode 3, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"
Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Our focus this month is on meeting any anxiety we may experience in our body, speech, and mind with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways of calmness that are inherent to us.
This content is for informational purposes only. Please consult medical professionals for physical or mental health concerns. Use headphones and avoid meditating while driving or operating machinery.
Learn more at CyberSangha.net or on the CyberSangha community app.
Sunday Dec 01, 2024
Sunday Dec 01, 2024
Episode 2, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion" Featuring: Norman Farb, Ph.D., Juanita Campbell Rasmus, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal, and host Alejandro Chaoul-Reich, Ph.D.
Depression can drain the color from life, often returning even after symptoms subside. In this episode, our expert panel explores:
How to recognize depression
The potential of meditation in easing symptoms
Strategies for avoiding relapse during recovery
Insights from scientific research, spirituality, and personal experience
Join us for this live online conversation as we navigate the journey beyond depression.
This content is for informational purposes only. Please consult medical professionals for physical or mental health concerns. Use headphones and avoid meditating while driving or operating machinery.
Learn more at CyberSangha.net or on the CyberSangha community app.
Sunday Nov 24, 2024
Sunday Nov 24, 2024
Episode 1, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"
Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
In this inaugural episode of the CyberSangha Podcast, join us for a transformative teaching, originally broadcast on March 3, 2023, as we begin our journey of "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion."
With the start of the Tibetan New Year, the focus of the month was on meeting any depression we may experience in our body, speech, and mind with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways of joy that are inherent to us. Recordings of simultaneous interpretation are available in Spanish and French.
This content is for informational purposes only. Please consult medical professionals for physical or mental health concerns. Use headphones and avoid meditating while driving or operating machinery.
Learn more at CyberSangha.net or on the CyberSangha community app.
About CyberSangha
CyberSangha® is a way to connect with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, ancient Tibetan teachings, and fellow students worldwide through regular live broadcasts that can be easily enjoyed via the CyberSangha Podcast or viewed on cybersangha.net, Rinpoche’s Facebook page, or the CyberSangha community app. All broadcasts are free and open to all.
The name CyberSangha reflects Rinpoche’s commitment to offer free access to his teachings for anyone in the world who might benefit from them. Buddhism speaks of Three Jewels: the Buddha; the Dharma, or Buddhist teachings; and the Sangha — the community of meditation practitioners who follow the teachings and put them into practice. In particular, CyberSangha refers to the international online community of individuals following the broadcasts and seeking nourishment from mutual support.
Rinpoche’s teachings present a doorway to connecting with your best self, a sense of openness, awareness, and warmth that allows you to live to your highest potential. The broadcasts are accessible to anyone, including meditation novices, practitioners with years of meditation experience, and those of any or no religious or spiritual affiliation.
Since 2009, live broadcasts include not only teachings and guided meditations, but also interfaith dialogues, conversations between scientific and spiritual leaders, Tibetan poetry readings, and glimpses of Rinpoche’s life and travels. Volunteers provide simultaneous translation into multiple languages, and the community app enables exchanges between members. Recordings of each broadcast are accessible in multiple languages via archives and language-specific YouTube channels.
Our vision, mission and values:
CyberSangha's vision supports the creation of a spiritually awakened, connected, and harmonious society.
Our mission is to help individuals access their higher awareness through producing and disseminating highly accessible content grounded in the wisdom teachings of Tibetan Bön Buddhism and other faiths — such as teachings, dialogs, and artistic/musical presentations — and to support individuals in connecting with like-minded others who together can manifest our vision of a better world for all.
The guiding principles of our community inspire and instruct our behaviors toward each other, our communities, and the environment. We are:
- convinced that every living being has the seed of awakened awareness within
- cultivating openness, love, compassion, joy, and even-mindedness in all that we do and extend to others
- in service to the truth at the heart of all the world’s great spiritual traditions
- pursuing our own spiritual development through service to others
- inspired in every way by the teachings of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
- warm-hearted, welcoming, and empowering to everyone everywhere
CyberSangha® provides a variety of educational services including teaching self-development through service, learning, and civic engagement; providing training and study of spiritual growth; offering leadership and development programs; and providing online classes, seminars, workshops, and training for individuals related to meditation, wellness and resilience.
Learn more about Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Tibetan Bön Buddhist teachings, and his worldwide network of sanghas and centers here.