The CyberSangha Podcast

Realizing the Power of Your True Voice

Episode 23, Series 2: "Bring Body, Speech & Mind to Life.”
Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Resting our voice in silence is a doorway to deep inner peace. It allows the light of pure awareness to dawn in us, and helps us to realize our true voice. In a live internet broadcast, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche teaches and guides a meditation that helps us to connect with that true voice and to realize its power to help us communicate more clearly and effectively.

Embodied Emotions: New Pathways to Freedom

Episode 22, Series 2: "Bring Body, Speech & Mind to Life.”
Featuring: Eve Ekman, Bessel van der Kolk, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal, and host Alejandro Chaoul-Reich
Presenters and hosts delve into trauma and emotions and how the body keeps score by affecting the very perception through which an individual meets life. The panel presented differing understandings on how trauma can be healed and why.
Eve Ekman draws from her work on a Dalai Lama-supported project to increase emotion awareness through an online Atlas of Emotions and her recent research on the meditation practice of working with difficult emotions: Feeding Your Demons. Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score, brings poignant insight into the impact of emotions and how the body keeps score of them. One particular topic of interest is the use of psychedelics, specifically MDMA, and how this effective treatment must be presented in sacred space and not abused.

Embracing the Suffering Me, Cultivating the Freedom of Being No One

Episode 21, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"
Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
In a live online teaching and guided meditation, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides us in meeting our “pain identity” — the mistaken sense of self who continually suffers  — with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways to realizing the liberating truth of no-self. The broadcast marks the start of Month 12 in Rinpoche’s yearlong program, “Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion.” Free and open to all!

Embracing Apathy, Cultivating Joyful Engagement

Episode 20, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"
Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
In a live online teaching, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides us in meeting any sense of apathy we may be experiencing with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways to fuller, more joyful engagement in life. The broadcast marks the start of Month 11 in Rinpoche’s yearlong program, “Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion.” Free and open to all!
In his teaching, Rinpoche emphasizes the importance of facing challenges, cultivating joyful engagement, and paying attention to our emotions. He also touches on our potential for personal change, the significance of getting a good sleep, and the need to be mindful of engaging with social media and technology. He highlights the role of self-awareness and the power of meditation, particularly loving kindness meditation, in promoting personal growth and reducing stress.
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.

Awareness as Medicine: The Best Cure for Burnout Is Here, Within Us

Episode 19, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"
Featuring: Nikki Mirghafori, Paul Condon, and Alejandro Chaoul-Reich.
It’s one thing to be fatigued. It’s another to be exhausted. When we put too much effort over time into thinking, speaking, or doing, at some point we can cross the line into irritability, extreme fatigue, even burnout. We may lose the ability to concentrate or remember, and our motivation for engaging in what we love most. Excessive fatigue can lead to headaches, digestive problems, or illness from a weakened immune system. How much effort is too much? Before crossing the line into burnout, how can we use exhaustion to our advantage? What role can awareness play in the cure? Join us in a fascinating discussion from the perspectives of both science and spirituality.

Embracing Exhaustion, Cultivating Resting with Awareness

Episode 18, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"
Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
In a live online teaching, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides us in meeting any sense of exhaustion or burnout we may be experiencing with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways to abiding deeply and restfully in open awareness. The broadcast marks the start of Month 10 in Rinpoche’s yearlong program, “Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion.” Free and open to all!
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.

Embracing Pride, Cultivating Peace

Episode 17, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"
Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
In a live online teaching, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides us in meeting any pride we may be experiencing with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways to our inherently peaceful nature. The broadcast marks the start of Month 9 in Rinpoche’s yearlong program, “Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion.” Free and open to all!
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.

Spaciously Being Human: Transforming Jealousy into Openness

Episode 16, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"
Featuring: Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal, and Alejandro Chaoul-Reich, Ph.D.
Jealousy is said to be one of the fundamental afflictions of human beings according to the Tibetan Bön and Buddhist traditions. Constantly comparing ourselves to others and wanting what others have leaves us perpetually dissatisfied, competitive, stressed, and exhausted. How can we acknowledge and accommodate our own jealousy such that it can shift or transform on its own? Are there positive ways in which we can channel the energy of jealousy into being of benefit to others or supporting our practice? Is there an “awakened” expression of jealousy?