Episodes
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Episode 33. Buddhist Education: from East to West with Roger Jackson, Yangsi Rinpoche and Namdrol Miranda Adams
Please join us for this special podcast episode exploring Buddhist education at the unique intersection of east and west. In this episode, Namdrol Miranda Adams, Maitripa College’s Dean of Education, interviews Dr. Roger Jackson, Professor Emeritus of Carleton College, visiting faculty member to...
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Episode 32. Preparing to Serve as a Chaplain from the Inside Out: Spiritual Formation and Education
In this special episode, Tiffany sits down with Dr. Leigh Miller, Director of Academic Programs at Maitripa College, to hear her take on the emerging field of Buddhist Chaplaincy, the framework students navigate in order to prepare for service as a chaplain, and the way Maitripa College fits into...
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Episode 31. Defining a “Healthy” Mind with Yangsi Rinpoche
In this episode, Yangsi Rinpoche takes us on a journey to discover the definition of a healthy mind. Relying on the Lamrim Chenmo (the Great Exposition on the Gradual Path to Enlightenment), Rinpoche discusses the work of Lama Atisha and Lama Tsongkhapa as a basis for defining a healthy mind...
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Episode 30. Looking Back; Looking Forward: Reflections on 2020 with Yangsi Rinpoche
In this end-of-year episode, Yangsi Rinpoche reflects on his own experience and guides us inreflecting on this year and looking ahead to 2021.
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Episode 29. Interview with Yangsi Rinpoche about Lineage
Episode 29. Interview with Yangsi Rinpoche about Lineage
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Episode 28. Enlightenment is the Potential of Your Mind
Episode 28. Enlightenment is the Potential of Your Mind
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Episode 27. Your True Nature: Introduction to the 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas
Episode 27. Your True Nature: Introduction to the 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas
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Episode 26. Wisdom Managing Your Mind in Difficult Times with Ven Robina Courtin - Part 1
Episode 26. Wisdom Managing Your Mind in Difficult Times with Ven Robina Courtin - Part 1
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Episode 25. A Protection in the Storm with Yangsi Rinpoche
Episode 25. A Protection in the Storm with Yangsi Rinpoche
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Episode 24. The Nurturing Effect of the Linage on Our Spiritual Journey by Yangsi Rinpoche
Episode 24. The Nurturing Effect of the Linage on Our Spiritual Journey by Yangsi Rinpoche
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Episode 23. Refuting Misconceptions About Meditation with Yangsi Rinpoche
Episode 23. Refuting Misconceptions About Meditation with Yangsi Rinpoche
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Episode 22. The Dharma Takes Root: Tibet and the West, and the Foundation of a Meditation Practice
In this, the second of a series of teachings on the lamrim and meditation, Yangsi Rinpoche explains how Buddhism took root in Tibet through the story of Lama Atisha, and how it is slowly taking root in the west. This episode also includes an introduction to developing a regular meditation practice.
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Episode 21. Introduction to the Lamrim Chenmo, the Gradual Path to Enlightenment by Yangsi Rinpoche
In unique accessible language, Yangsi Rinpoche presents in summary the historic context of Atisha’s Lamp of the Path to Enlightenment. Rinpoche explains why the traditional spiritual journey is rooted in linage, Nagarjuna and Asanga’s influence on the tradition, and how lineage functions to…
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Episode 20. The Bodhisattva vow: What it means to wish for and engage in actions leading to enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings
In this week’s episode, from Maitripa College’s Philosophy 302 class, Yangsi Rinpoche teaches on the Bodhisattva vow and gives commentary on exactly what it means to wish for and engage in actions leading to enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. In discussion, the class explores the...
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Episode 19. The Buddha’s Wisdom: The Importance of Dependent Origination with Jan Willis, PhD
In this talk, Professor Willis focuses on a unique and quintessential teaching of the Buddha. Using narratives and key texts from the tradition, Professor Willis’ uniquely warm and approachable demeanor invites the listener to connect to and engage with the liberating wisdom of the Buddha’s...
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Episode 18. Mother, Daughter, Sex Worker, Nun: Transgressing and Transforming Gender Roles in Buddhist Narratives with Damchö Diana Finnegan PhD
Among the Buddha’s most prominent female disciples were sex workers, mothers, and the nuns who formed the female monastic order. Narratives of the lives of these earliest Buddhist women show them struggling to emerge, with varying degrees of success and failure, from the places in which a...
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Episode 17. Enlightenment: Is There An App For That? with Yangsi Rinpoche
In this talk, Enlightenment: Is there an App for that?, Rinpoche invites us to look closely at how we try whatever way possible to find the shortcut to happiness and even enlightenment. Rinpoche grapples with the reasons we seek an easy way out, and how meditation practice can help us cut through...
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Episode 16. Introducing Buddhism: Our View of the World and Our Place In It with Venerable Damchö Diana Finnegan, PhD
In “Introducing Buddhism: Our View of the World and Our Place In It” with Venerable Venerable Damchö Diana Finnegan, who holds a PhD in Buddhist Studies as well as extensive translation and practice experience, we learn that the purpose of Buddhist philosophy is to function as a window through...
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Episode 15. Integrating the Heart Sutra in the Practice of Meditation on Emptiness with Yangsi Rinpoche
In Integrating the Heart Sutra: Meditating on Emptiness, Rinpoche offers an approach to meditation on emptiness that reveals how to feel a healthy sense of self. Rather than “redecorating” our mediation, Rinpoche advises to “clean up” our practice through allowing our fundamental nature to arise....
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Episode 14. From Reactivity to Joyful Effort: Balancing the Mind in Meditation with Yangsi Rinpoche
Balancing the Mind in Meditation begins with an eloquent explanation of joyful effort. Rinpoche proceeds to guide us on a meditation journey analogous to the balancing act of a pilot flying a plane while keeping her eye on the horizon. Enjoy this rare and essential teaching about how to maintain…
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Episode 13. Finding The Source For Enlightement: A Non-Dual Approach with Yangsi Rinpoche
In Finding the Source of Enlightenment: A Non-Dual Approach, Yangsi Rinpoche teaches that by traversing negative emotions, we gain access to the non-dual, fundamental source of meditation and, ultimately, to enlightenment. Compassion, Rinpoche offers, is the natural result of the healing that…
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Episode 12. Getting Unstuck: Balancing the Ultimate and the Conventional with Yangsi Rinpoche
Yangsi Rinpoche addresses the Maitripa College Sunday Morning Community Program with a discussion on Getting Unstuck: Balancing Ultimate and Conventional Natures. In order to “survive samsaric suffering” Rinpoche advises to navigate through meditation on conventional reality with the ultimate,...
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Episode 11. The Space-like Practice of Compassion and Emptiness with Yangsi Rinpoche
Yangsi Rinpoche teaches on the space-like practice of compassion and emptiness in Seattle, WA at the Dharma Friendship Foundation. In order to overcome the “karmic chaos” in our own minds, Rinpoche recommends spending time each day meditating on compassion and emptiness in an expansive way, in...
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Episode 10. Independent Investigation on One's Own Ego with Yangsi Rinpoche
In reflection on the question: how do we deepen our meditation?, Rinpoche asks us to expand our concept of our relationship to others by considering the power of lineage. Although in the material world, self-reliance is most important, when it comes to spiritual practice, relying on the…
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Episode 9. Introduction to Mahamudra: Looking Deeply, Looking Beyond with Yangsi Rinpoche
By guiding us through meditation on emptiness, and investigating our intrinsic sense of self, Rinpoche leads us on a journey through our own negative emotions and karmic habits into “the lab of meditation.” While we might think of meditation on emptiness as unattainable, too difficult, or…
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Episode 8. Conversation with Carl Jensen, Maitripa College Alumni
Carl Jensen, MDiv, is a chaplain at Portland Providence Medical Center. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Carl has lived all over the world. He first encountered Buddhism when he and his wife, Heather, were serving as Peace Corps volunteers in western China. After their Peace Corps service,...
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Episode 7. Equanimity: The Middle Way Of Our Awareness by Yangsi Rinpoche
Yangsi Rinpoche leads us on a deep dive into understanding equanimity practice as it relates to generating compassion and bodhicitta. Is it easier to practice equanimity with strangers, or with our closest loved ones? Through a close look at the play of attachment, desire, and expectation…
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Episode 6. How to Awaken Inspiration Through Lojong with Geshe Kalsang Damdul
Recorded during his visit to Maitripa College in March, Geshe Kalsang Damdul shares personal stories and experiences from his own life, and relates them to lojong, or the Tibetan Buddhist psychological practice of mind training or thought transformation. With warmth and humor, Geshe-la recalls...
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Episode 5. Why Tsongkhapa Matters with Roger Jackson, PhD - Part 2
In this second session of a two-part talk, Maitripa College visiting faculty member Roger Jackson, PhD, shines light on the continued relevance of the teachings of Tsongkhapa over centuries and across continents. 2019 marks the 600th anniversary of the passing of Tsongkhapa, one of the greatest...
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Episode 4. Why Tsongkhapa Matters with Roger Jackson, PhD - Part 1
In this first session of a two-part talk, Maitripa College visiting faculty member Roger Jackson, PhD, shines light on the continued relevance of the teachings of Tsongkhapa over centuries and across continents. 2019 marks the 600th anniversary of the passing of Tsongkhapa, one of the greatest...
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Episode 3. How to Check if your Meditation Practice is Successful with Yangsi Rinpoche
In this teaching Yangsi Rinpoche gives clear advice on how to determine if meditation on emptiness practice is working, or just making you more grumpy! Included in this talk is insight into transforming negative emotions, and how the vajrayana path helps us go beyond the gross mind, to access the...
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Episode 2. The Way to a Meaningful Life with Geshe Pema Dorjee
In a traditional presentation of the essence of the Buddhist path, with great humility Geshe-la shares his insights on how to be happy by stopping harm to others and learning to embrace them with compassion and loving-kindness. Interspersed with stories from his personal life, Geshe-la sheds…
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The Maitripa College Podcast
On July 6th, 2021, many of us, all around the world celebrated the 86th birthday of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, a magnificent exemplar of compassion in our times. This auspicious occasion and the manifold crises that face humanity call on us to reflect on how we can make compassion a more active...
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Episode 1. A Talk about Karma with Yangsi Rinpoche
This episode of the Maitripa College Podcast, “A Talk about Karma”, features a teaching from Yangsi Rinpoche, Geshe Lharampa and President of Maitripa College. In our inaugural Podcast, Rinpoche gives a concise and inspiring explanation of the Buddhist view of karma. In clear, accessible…
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