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The Backyard Buddhist Podcast
by Ronn Pawo McLane
Finding relief from stress, anxiety, depression or just in a rut. I am passionate about demystifying meditation and the pursuit of well-being. Chill out with me. Ronn Pawo McLane
Episodes
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Guided Meditation For Simple Awareness
Meditation is about sharpening your sense of awareness. Over time our conscious awareness gets dulled down and we form attachments to the distractions in our lives instead of the ease of being in the flow of the present moment. Join Ronn Pawo McLane in this skillfully guided meditation to help...
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Embracing Community - A Guided Meditation For Gay Men
Welcome to the "Embracing Community" guided meditation, designed specifically for gay men on their journey of building intentional and supportive communities. This meditation will help you cultivate mindfulness, compassion, and a deep sense of connection as you embark on this transformative...
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Cultivating Gay Friendships & Relationships - Guided Meditation
This meditation is designed to help you visualize and manifest your ideal friendships and relationships within the gay community. By cultivating a clear vision and connecting with the energy of what you desire, you can attract and nurture fulfilling connections. Join Ronn Pawo McLane on this…
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Cultivating Compassion Meditation: A Practice for Positive Change
In this guided meditation, host Ngakpa Ronn Pawo McLane leads listeners through a journey of self-discovery and compassion. The meditation begins with a body scan and relaxation exercise to release tension and create a calm and peaceful state of mind. From there, Ngakpa Ronn Pawo McLane guides...
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The Power of Compassion: How One Small Act Can Change the World
In this episode of the Backyard Buddhist Podcast, host Ngakpa Ronn Pawo McLane explores the transformative power of compassion. In today's world of polarization and division, it can be easy to feel disconnected and hopeless. But, as Ngakpa Ronn Pawo McLane reminds us, even a small act of…
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Meditation: Focusing Your Attention To Find Ease
Attentive awareness is the first solid skill that you can learn and sharpen to help ease your mind when you are feeling restless, stressed, or upset. Use this meditation again and again to help you to practice short periods of focused attention where ease is the outcome. The more you do it the...
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Guided Meditation For Easing The Mind
Explore this Meditation to help ease your mind when you are experiencing difficulty. Supporting your mental well-being through this mindful practice.
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Using Meditation For Mental Well-Being
Feelings of being overwhelmed, nervous, anxious, dread, resentment, and anger are all indicators that our Mental Well-Being is off the tracks. Through meditation I have been able to find the common threads for supporting my own well-being. Meditation may not be a cure-all but it is a damn good...
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Guided Meditation: ”Simply Noticing The Breath”
In this short meditation with Ronn Pawo McLane we focus on noticing the breath to help retrain our attention to be here in the present moment. Practice this a often as needed grounding yourself in this present moment, no matter what is happening around you.
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”Noticing Leads You to Enlightenment”
I am back and excited to share with you a new season of The Backyard Buddhist Podcast. In this episode let's talk about enlightenment. What is it and how do we get there? Make it simple and cut to the chase! It is your innate right and ability. Go For it! If you'd like to be on the new season of...
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”Reduce All Suffering Here and Now”
In this episode of the Backyard Buddhist Podcast we are taking about the root of all suffering and most importantly how to spot it. Once you spot it you can eliminate or at least reduce it's thrall. We often miss the forest for the trees with reactive and repetitive conditioned responses. Don't...
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”The Heart of Greatness”
What makes a great singer, songwriter, author, poet, actor or teacher? Is there a gene that causes greatness? Oprah says that luck is opportunity meeting preparation. So is greatness the preparation or is it the opportunity? Join Ronn Pawo McLane for his 40th Podcast Episode and this enlightening...
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”How To Remove Obstacles From Your Path”
We all have experience situations that feel terrible and you wish them to be gone. We have also all had experiences when we felt that someone or something stood in our way of achieving something or getting somewhere. For me, obstacle removing was the first practice that I learned how to…
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”Illuminating Our Truest Nature”
In the non-dual teachings of the Buddha we find ourselves faced with "The Two Witnesses", those being relative and absolute viewpoints. In this episode of the Backyard Buddhist we seek to understand both relative and absolute while accessing the pervasive and ever-present unbiased consciousness...
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”The Super Bowl of Bodhichitta”
Cultivating awakened heart mind or Bodhichitta can be tricky and challenging. It is more important than ever to find understanding in the challenges of our life experiences and how to navigate those rough waters. When we endeavor to share the merits of our awakening with and for all begins what…
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”Interrupt Everything!”
Everyone of us has been experiencing a divisive time of unrest and discourse. But what is causing the conditions that seem to breed anger, rage and violence? How are we unwittingly participating in the perpetuation of these conditions and how do we make a solid change for ourselves and each…
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”Cultivate The Change That Matters”
We know that change comes from within but we tend to only go looking for the understanding that brings calm and peace when we are struggling the most. Like a neglected garden we show up looking for a harvest when we are the hungriest. My Dad taught me that to have a good garden you remove the...
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”Spiritual Procrastination”
In this episode Pawo is talking specifically about your daily meditation practice. It is the first month of the new year have you set any priorities or resolutions? What are your goals for shaking off what has been holding your down? What is getting in your way? What is it going to take to…
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”Happy New You!”
In this episode of the Backyard Buddhist Podcast Pawo talks about bringing ourselves to a constant state of awareness as we begin this new year. Altars and offerings are a common practice but what about offering everything in our experience up to our awakened awareness? There is Dharma when…
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”Oh Buddha Tree, Oh Buddha Tree”
Our gift to the world is a robust practice of altruistic generosity, ethical self-discipline, compassionate patience, joyous effort, concentrated awareness and the wise and loving actions that result. Tis the season for giving and what better gift than one of kindness and inclusion for all…
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”Game Changers”
Welcome back after a short break. Look at all the things that have changed in the world around us in just a few weeks. In today's podcast I am answering some great questions from listeners and talking about my own Game Changers. It is important to take a look back from time to time to see the...
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”The Big Gay Buddhist Episode”
On this episode of The Backyard Buddhist my guest Christopher Bayne and I talk about being part of the LGBTQIA and Buddhist communities. How does being gay fit into our practice and how do we use that practice to overcome stresses and fears? You get to hear it first from two Big Gay Buddhists.
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”Trust & Relief”
I have often been asked why Buddhism seems to focus on suffering. My answer to that is that none of us showed up here to find relief from our overwhelming and ever present, persistent joy. So, we focus on finding the relief from our suffering, discomfort, and dissatisfaction not to replace...
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”Belief in Nowness”
I am Ronn Pawo McLane and this is the Backyard Buddhist Podcast where we continually seek everyday enlightenment for the benefit of ourselves and all other beings. I have invited my friend Brooke Beets to join us today in the backyard. Welcome Brooke! We often find ourselves in a state of...
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”The Refuge of Waves & Water”
We all feel separate sometimes. Sometimes we believe we have been forgotten in the middle of no-where. In this episode of the Backyard Buddhist Ronn Pawo talks about the contemplation of self and other. What is relative and what is ultimate? Why does it feel like a vast ocean of separateness? Are...
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”Super Buddha”
I am Ronn Pawo McLane and this is the Backyard Buddhist Podcast where we continually seek everyday enlightenment for the benefit of ourselves and all other beings. You won’t often find me watching a movie or television show that has uncomfortable chaos or violence. First it just feels disruptive…
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”Forgive and Remember”
Welcome to the Backyard Buddhist Podcast where we continually seek everyday enlightenment for the benefit of ourselves and all other beings. I am Ronn Pawo McLane. Regret is a powerful obstacle when we are trying to balance our human experience and relieve suffering. Regret for our own behaviors...
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”Insight Through Hindsight”
Welcome to the Backyard Buddhist Podcast where we continually seek everyday enlightenment for the benefit of ourselves and all other beings. I am Ronn Pawo McLane. This week on the Backyard Buddhist Podcast we are talking about cultivating wisdom and compassion through the tools of insight. We…
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”Enough IS Enough”
Welcome to the Backyard Buddhist Podcast where we continually seek everyday enlightenment for the benefit of ourselves and all other beings. I am Ronn Pawo McLane The great Yogi Milarepa sang: “My Body is the holy mandala itself wherein resides the Buddhas of all times. With their blessings I and...
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”Why I Am Not Good Enough”
Welcome to the Backyard Buddhist Podcast where we continually seek everyday enlightenment for the benefit of ourselves and all other beings. I am Ronn Pawo McLane One of my teachers reminded me that the pure light of awareness sanctifies everything. What it means to me is that when I shine the...
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”What This is ALL About”
Welcome to the Backyard Buddhist Podcast where we continually seek everyday enlightenment for the benefit of ourselves and all other beings. I am Ronn Pawo McLane and I am here in the studio alone today Danny has the day off. Today I wanted to talk about what this practice and endeavor is all...
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”Dan‘s Big Questions for Pawo”
We are happy to publish our 20th episode of the Backyard Buddhist Podcast. We are so happy to have all of our loyal listeners as well as our newest friends joining us. Usually Pawo settles on the topic for the day and Dan doesn't have any idea what we are going to talk about until the podcast...
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”Offering Awareness to Consciousness”
Welcome to the Backyard Buddhist Podcast where we continually seek everyday enlightenment for the benefit of ourselves and all other beings. I am Ronn Pawo McLane and I am here with my good buddy Danny Hobart. Today we are talking about the vast view of consciousness and awareness. This journey…
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”Finding Natural Awareness”
Welcome to the Backyard Buddhist Podcast where we continually seek everyday enlightenment for the benefit of ourselves and all other beings. I am Ronn Pawo McLane and I am here with my good buddy Danny Hobart. Today we are talking about Natural Awakening. Your own spiritual compass starts with...
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”Beyond the Beyond”
Welcome to the Backyard Buddhist Podcast where we continually seek everyday enlightenment for the benefit of ourselves and all other beings. I am Ronn Pawo McLane and I am here with my good buddy Danny Hobart. Today we are talking about what it means to go beyond. Our natural state is beyond the...
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”Losing My Religion”
Welcome to the Backyard Buddhist Podcast where we continually seek everyday enlightenment for the benefit of ourselves and all other beings. I am Ronn Pawo McLane and I am here with my good buddy Danny Hobart. Today we are contemplating non-duality and what it means for our practical…
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”Beyond the Big Golden Door to Enlightenment”
Welcome to the Backyard Buddhist Podcast where we continually seek everyday enlightenment for the benefit of ourselves and all other beings. I am Ronn Pawo McLane and I am here with my good buddy Danny Hobart. Today we are talking about what is behind the big golden door of enlightenment. Simple...
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”Lather, Rinse & Repeat Buddha Style”
Welcome to the Backyard Buddhist Podcast where we continually seek everyday enlightenment for the benefit of ourselves and all other beings. I am Ronn Pawo McLane and I am here with my good buddy Danny Hobart. Today we are talking about how we continually work at the practice of enlightened and...
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”Enlightenment 101”
Welcome to the Backyard Buddhist Podcast where we continually seek everyday enlightenment for the benefit of ourselves and all other beings. I am Ronn Pawo McLane and I am here with my good buddy Danny Hobart. Today we are talking about how Enlightenment 101 – How to find your enlightened,...
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”Finding Enthusiastic Passion In Your Practice”
Welcome to the Backyard Buddhist Podcast where we continually seek everyday enlightenment for the benefit of ourselves and all other beings. I am Ronn Pawo McLane and I am here with my good buddy Danny Hobart. Today we are talking about the fourth paramita, Joyful and enthusiastic Effort. In its...
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”Practice Like Your Hair is ON FIRE!”
Welcome to the Backyard Buddhist Podcast where we continually seek everyday enlightenment for the benefit of ourselves and all other beings. I am Ronn Pawo McLane and I am here with my good buddy Danny Hobart. Today we are getting right to the heart of our practice and talking about how to be...
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”Walking With Wisdom Together - BLM”
Welcome to the Backyard Buddhist Podcast where we continually seek everyday enlightenment for the benefit of ourselves and all other beings. I am Ronn Pawo McLane and I am here with my good buddy and path-mate Danny Hobart. Today we are breaking down the Wisdom Path of Awakening. In Lama Surya…
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”How to Meditate When Things Suck!”
Let’s face it, stress is not new to our lives, but this year has produced a few curve balls that are simply unusual. Isolation for some and too much togetherness for others. Finding and keeping a new rhythm that is healthy and fulfilling can be a daily challenge. Today on the Backyard Buddhist we...
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”Ignorance & Compassion Walk Into a Bar”
Today on the Backyard Buddhist were talking about cultivating compassion and love for those who oppose us. Kindness and compassion for those who seem to battle against what we feel is the “right” way of being is one of the biggest challenges in our daily experience. Just turn on the news and it...
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”Your Karma is a Bitch!”
Today on the Backyard Buddhist were talking about your karma. Your Karma is a Bitch! Why do all these bad things happen? Shouldn’t all the good in the world counteract all the bad? What happened to create all this chaos? In our efforts to liberate ourselves from suffering we must address the law…
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”Everyday Pack Mentality”
Herd, mob or pack mentality describes how people can be influenced by their peers to adopt certain behaviors on a largely emotional, rather than rational, basis. Today on The Backyard Buddhist Podcast Ronn Pawo McLane and Co-host Danny Hobart are talking about this as an active element in our…
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”Don‘t Fear The Trolls”
I am Ronn Pawo McLane here with my good friend and co-host Danny Hobart. Welcome to The Backyard Buddhist Podcast – Where we seek to bring calm introspection together with skillful action. Today on the Backyard Buddhist were introducing our First HOT ON THE GRILL SEGMENT. This is where we are...
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”Feeding Your Demons”
Some days more than others we have trouble keeping our heads in the game. Persistent thoughts continually knock us off our seat of awareness and the result is often depleted exhaustion and despair. Today on The Backyard Buddhist Ronn Pawo McLane and Danny Hobart are talking about feeding our…
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”How To Be a Better Person”
We are all trying hard to become better people. We want to be better partners, parents and friends, but end up feeling exhausted and depleted. So how do we balance all that? The struggle to be better humans in our daily experience gets knocked off track with seemingly every irritation and…
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”Buddhism Demystified”
In this episode join Ronn Pawo McLane and Danny Hobart as they discuss the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism, Impermanence, and interconnectedness. How can we use ancient wisdom to help us with our anxiety and depression?
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Finding relief from stress, anxiety, depression or just in a rut. I am passionate about demystifying meditation and the pursuit of well-being. Chill out with me. Ronn Pawo McLane
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