Zen Brain: Exploring The Connection Between Neuroscience And Meditation
by Joan Halifax Roshi: This past August, more than 50 people gathered in the Circle of the Way temple at Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to explore the connection between neuroscience and [...]
The Dharma of Consciously Dying
by Deb Shapiro & Kiri Westby: The vast majority of us will have no idea when, where, or with whom we will die. […]
Awaken Interviews Sharon Salzberg Pt 2 – Doing From A Place Of Perspective And Understanding
Donna Quesada: Now, I want to go a little deeper. I find this so fascinating that it starts with us… this kind of self-blessing. […]
Dakini: The Goddess Who Takes Form as a Woman
by Vicki Noble: The Tibetan Buddhist Dakini is a compelling icon of untamed female freedom. Like a trickster or the Fool in a Tarot deck, the dakini releases blockages in the energy field and melts [...]
Thich Nhat Hanh and the Light We Carry Forward
By Marianne Williamson: The blessing he leaves behind. When a great soul leaves the earth, the gifts they shared while they were here dissolve into a misty blessing that remains though they are gone… [...]
Adyashanti Spiritual Addiction
by Adyashanti: A spiritual person can become addicted to spiritual highs and miss the experience of Truth. […]
Awaken Interviews Kim Eng – The Divine Feminine
This interview took place in front of 650 people at a retreat with Eckhart Tolle and Kim Eng in Norway in September 2015. […]
Awakening in Life – Pir Vilayat Khan
by Pir Vilayat Khan: Meditation is the art of moving back and forth between two perspectives—the human and the Divine […]
Psychedelics and Religious Experience – Alan Watts
by Alan Watts: The experiences resulting from the use of psychedelic drugs are often described in religious terms. […]
Awaken Interviews Robert Thurman PhD Pt 3 – Be Lucid Waking
Donna Quesada: Robert, I want to ask…you know the name of our site is Awaken.com…so, we have a little tradition here. […]
Awaken Interviews Robert Thurman PhD Pt 2 – World Peace Through Inner Peace
Donna Quesada: We are talking about Buddhism and the state of the world and making these valuable ancient teachings relevant… […]
Awaken Interviews Robert Thurman Pt 1 – His Spiritual Quest
Donna Quesada: So, in terms of your work with the Tibet House, which coincides with your work at Columbia University as part of the Indo-Tibetan Studies Program… […]
Beat Zen – Alan Watts
by Alan Watts: It is as difficult for Anglo-Saxons as for the Japanese to absorb anything quite so Chinese as Zen. […]
The Crucial Difference between Sartre and Buddha—True Freedom Is a Clear Mind
(Or… What Is the Meaning of Life?) – Donna Quesada. […]
Roshi Joan Halifax: How Do You Want to Die?
by Roshi Joan Halifax: (Exercise from The Lucky Dark) In teaching care of the dying, I often begin by asking questions that explore our stories around death, […]
How Do I Love Myself? | Thich Nhat Hanh Answers Questions
Thich Nhat Hanh answers questions during a public event… […]
Awaken Interviews Joan Borysenko PhD P 2 – Living More From Your Higher Self
Donna Quesada: You know, it’s funny you should bring up the word awakening. Because I was going to ask you… […]
Emma Watson talks love of meditation, yoga, Buddhism
Emma Watson, famous UN Goodwill Ambassador and Harry Potter actor, is also a meditator with an interest in Buddhism. […]
Sharon Salzberg Real Happiness At Work: The Myth Of Multitasking
by Sharon Salzberg: The following is excerpted from Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace […]
Awaken interviews Zen Master Hakuin – Go Forward After Satori Devoting Yourself to Continued Practice
Donna Quesada for Awaken: Firstly, it is with a deep bow that I thank you for spending this time with us today. […]
A Buddhist Monk Told Me The Answer To Life
by Jake & Hannah Eagle:: I am in Kyoto, Japan with my wife, Hannah, teaching a personal growth workshop. […]
Adyashanti: The Basic Teachings Pt 1
Adyashanti outlines the essential principles that form a foundation of understanding of his teaching. […]
A Bodhicitta Practice – Pema Chödrön
Pema Chödrön offers a method for generating love and compassion for all human beings. […]
Compassion in Action – Ram Dass
Ram Dass probes deeply into the nature of helping relationships. He suggests that when we see deeply into each human being, […]
Everything Under the Sun – Adyashanti
by Adyashanti: Look around you; there is only one reality. The reason that you are here, wherever here is for you, is because it is the only place that you can be right now. [...]
Awaken Interviews Catherine Ingram Pt 1 – Face What’s Happening On The Planet
David Welch: What does it mean to awaken? […]
The Zen of Steve Jobs: Right Livelihood
by Lama Surya Das: Many people have been asking me of late if Steve Jobs really was a Buddhist. The answer is yes, and for many years. […]
‘Beyond Religion’: The Dalai Lama’s Secular Ethics
by Dalai Lama: I am an old man now. I was born in 1935 in a small village in northeastern Tibet. […]
Neuroscientists and the Dalai Lama Swap Insights on Meditation
by Christof Koch: An encounter with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the scientific study of meditation. […]
Is It True that We Are What We Think? (What’s your walk-around mantra?) Donna Quesada
by Donna Quesada: Buddha taught that whatever we habitually focus our thoughts on will color our awareness and begin to shape the way we see reality. […]
The Coolest Meditator in the World
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: He turned 78 last Saturday and still says he meditates for three hours every day, starting at 4 a.m. […]
The 10 Qualities Of Buddhahood
by Kedar Nath: Gautama Buddha’s magnanimous qualities are well known across the world and are mentioned in important texts such as the “Tipitaka: The Pali Canon” or the “Forty Methods of Samatha Bhavana” in the ancient [...]
You Are the Buddha – Adyashanti
by Adyashanti: Rediscovered years later in an old file, the following talk was written by Adyashanti in preparation for the first silent retreat he taught, in July 1997: […]
What Buddha Might Say to Bill Gates
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: Bill Gates is a rare breed. He defies what most billionaires appear to be: […]
Matthieu Ricard on Happiness
Matthieu Ricard’s talk on Happiness at the Action for Happiness event at Conway Hall in London. […]
Awaken Interviews Megan Larson Pt 3 -True Healing Starts with Acceptance
Donna Quesada: I remember one of my own teachers saying, “When looking for a teacher, you want a teacher who’s been through the fire” […]
Excavating the Heart Through Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation
When I first heard the Buddhist teachings on loving kindness, compassion and forgiveness, I was incredibly skeptical. […]
Bill Harris Interviews Ken Wilber on Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now
This is Bill Harris Director of Centerpointe Research Institute and I am here today with Ken Wilber, […]
Awaken Interviews Megan Larson Pt 2 – Maybe It’s Nature Deficit Disorder
Donna Quesada: … And is there a special breathing technique that you found to be particularly beneficial, […]
Buddhist Notion Of Emptiness – Donna Quesada
by Donna Quesada: explains the Buddhist notion of emptiness, in simple terms, […]
What is Nirvana – Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh
Discourse by Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh […]
Buddhist Meditation To Burn Inner Anger – Donna Quesada
by Donna Quesada: Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh said it most simply: “While you pound the pillow, you are not calming or reducing your anger— […]
Training the Mind – The Dalai Lama
by The Dalai Lama: With a determination to achieve the highest aim, For the benefit of all sentient beings, Which surpasses even the wish-fulfilling gem, May I hold them dear at all times. […]
Awaken Interviews Lama Lakshey Zangpo Rinpoche Pt 3 – Personal Peace Is Really the Main Cause of Intra-Personal Peace
Donna Quesada: That was lovely. It brings you beneath the stories that we tell ourselves in our mind. […]
Awaken Interviews Lama Lakshey Zangpo Rinpoche Pt 2 – Drop The “I” For Mental Strength
Donna Quesada: It’s so simple, but so profound, so if I’m understanding correctly, you’re saying… […]