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Tea with Mara — 267 episodes

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Title
1

Guarding The Garden

2

Freedom Without, Freedom Within

3

The Stories We Live Inside

4

I Thought I Was Right, But I Was Certain

5

Buddhism Still Ruins Everything

6

Within You, Without You

7

Not Picking Up What I'm Putting Down

8

Radar Rider

9

The Living's Easy

10

Jealous Again

11

When We Stand On Unsteady Ground

12

Something Has Changed

13

Mother Matters

14

Another Chapter

15

Mid-Life Crisis or Spiritual Awakening?

16

The Four Kinds of Friends

17

The Most Sublime Bookshelf

18

The Suffering of Expectation

19

The Direction of Perfection

20

Questions about Anxiety and Anger

21

Reduce and Renew

22

The Direction of Support

23

W.A.R.

24

The 4H Club

25

Just This

26

The Unreliable Narrator

27

Between Having and Being

28

A Stable Table

29

A Place of Peace

30

February Meditation Challenge - Wrap Up!

31

February Meditation Challenge - Week 4

32

It's The Little Things

33

February Meditation Challenge - Week 3

34

February Meditation Challenge - Week 2

35

February Meditation Challenge - Week 1

36

Resistance and Forgetting

37

Beginner's Mind, From The Beginning

38

Why Bother?

39

The Spark

40

Direction, Not Perfection

41

The Ground Upon Which I Stand

42

Hero Protagonist

43

2025 NYEEEE Intention Setting Ceremony

44

Chasing Paper Airplanes

45

A Wider View of Mindfulness

46

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Bob

47

Gratitude Balancing Rage

48

Despite All My Rage

49

More Ferris, Less Cameron

50

Empire of Noble Silence

51

A Gentle Strength

52

Nothing Truly Disappears

53

Intruder Alert!

54

Preparing For The Holidays

55

The Dharma of Delayed Gratification

56

Read The Room

57

Turning Toward Winter

58

The Demon God

59

Slayer To Saint

60

Nothing To Fear

61

The Spookiest of All Ghosts

62

Outing Our Inner Demons

63

Ghosts of the Mind

64

There You Are

65

Stop, See, Soften, Serve

66

Wise and Free

67

Pumpkinheads

68

All I Wanted Was A Pepsi

69

Don't Fear The Reaping

70

Bend, Not Break

71

A Noble Mind

72

Leaning Into Personality

73

Sukha Loops and Shoops

74

The Uplift Mofo Party Plan

75

The Agony and The Irony

76

Patience As A Strength

77

33,600 Turbo Miles, Due Up!

78

Confidently Traversing Uncertainty

79

Personal Responsibility

80

Four More Things

81

Onward And Upward

82

Shake It Up Baby!

83

Achievement Unlocked!

84

A Safe Place To Return To

85

I'm So Glad You're Here

86

Happy Interdependence Day!

87

Early Morning Sunshine

88

Racing Ahead To Meet Suffering

89

The Gift That Frees

90

Unshaken, Sorrowless, Dustless

91

Seven Good Qualities

92

Give Me Three Steps

93

Nothing Else Matters

94

Beauty And Beasts

95

Beautifully Broken

96

You Can't See Me

97

Get Into Wise Trouble

98

The Motherly Heart

99

You Can't Take It With You

100

The Dharma of Star Wars

101

Take Five and Breathe

102

A Quiet Place to Practice

103

We Listen And We Don't Judge

104

Water Rises Fire Burns

105

Karma and Coffee

106

The Sangha Grows

107

If It Ain't Broke...

108

Yasa and The Boodles

109

Forgetting to Remember

110

Relaxed Living Through Perfect Imperfection

111

Not To But Through

112

Big Wheel Keep On Turning

113

Hand Me Down Habits

114

In The Beninging

115

The Risks and Rewards of Trust

116

Letting Go of Foreboding Joy

117

Five Kinds of Joy

118

Inviting My Younger Self To Tea

119

Don't Borrow Tomorrow's Trouble

120

Facing Fear, Finding Refuge

121

Self Sabotage and Karma

122

Tools, Not Rules

123

Not Less Through Loss

124

The Dharma of Dianogas

125

Nobody Said It Was Easy

126

The Threefold Training

127

Information, Knowledge, and Knowing

128

Where Once I was Blind

129

NYEEE 2024 Intention Setting Ceremony

130

We Know The Way

131

Reflections Of The Way Life Used To Be

132

What The Hell Am I

133

The Acorn And The Oak

134

Unwrapping Vulnerability and Boundaries

135

Pain And The Brain

136

The Grateful Heart (The Lost Episode)

137

Survive And Thrive For The Holidays

138

Mindfulness Is A Hoe

139

Trust Begins When Actions Match Words

140

There In The Balanced Engagedness

141

Love The Actor, Fight The Action

142

Holding Space With Grace

143

Times Like These

144

Waiting To Exhale

145

Harmless, Harmed, Harmful, Heedful

146

It Takes Two To Tango

147

Now I Know What I Got

148

Need A Little Patience

149

Sustaining Generosity

150

Come Together, Right Now

151

What's The Difference?

152

Be A Lantern

153

Managing Overwhelm

154

Tying It All Together

155

Reflecting On Room Of Mirrors

156

Facing The Unknown

157

The Sound of Compassion

158

The Weight of Certainty

159

If The Answer Is No, Let It Go

160

The Kusalakamma Loop

161

Cultivating Courage

162

Fear Not

163

On Death And Dying

164

Oh, What A Relief It Is!

165

Serve The Truth

166

Tea Time and Tool Time

167

The Noble Search

168

Growth Can Be Expected, Not Decline

169

Bear It, Brahmin

170

Relaxing Your Thoughts

171

We, The Practitioners

172

Beyond Your Command

173

The Burden of Blame

174

AGE-ing our Karma

175

Cutting Through The Noise

176

A Bad Case Of Loving You

177

Don't Get It Twisted

178

Apples and Oranges

179

I'll Be What I Am

180

Simply Relax

181

ALL Beings

182

Always Room For Improvement.

183

Welcome Back!

184

Watch Out For Those Pitfalls, Harry!

185

You're Killing Me

186

The Incontrovertible Teaching

187

Just Don't Drink The Water

188

You Really Must Try This

189

Ritual De Lo Habitual

190

F^@k Around And Find Doubt

191

For One's Self

192

Three Kinds of Craving

193

Trust, But Verify

194

I Just Need This Ashtray...

195

Dr. Healgood

196

But If You Did...

197

...Doesn't Mean You Should

198

Just Because You Can...

199

Big Bada Boom

200

Do Better.

201

Happiness Here And Now

202

Whatcha Gonna Do?

203

Emotional Intelligence and Resilience

204

It's Just A Flesh Wound!

205

How Do You Know What MY Best Interest Is?!

206

Throwback Episode: Happy MahaMaya's Day 2022!

207

Follow The Dharma

208

Shave And A Haircut, Two Baubles

209

None But Ourselves Can Free Our Mind

210

Throwback Episode: Star Wars Day 2023!

211

I Can See Clearly Now...

212

There's No Place Like Home...

213

I'll Just Have The Salad...

214

What's cookin. Good lookin!

215

Underneath The Rose-Apple Tree

216

The Stain of Selfishness

217

The Boundaries of Forgiveness

218

"T" is for "Thankful"

219

"S" is for "Set Intentions"

220

"E" is for "Embody"

221

"R" is for "Reflect"

222

No, Officer, I did not hit that kid...

223

Fool Me Once...

224

Questions and Responses

225

Three Bodies, No Problem

226

I Swear I Only Ate One Cookie!

227

Throwback Episode! - Shadows Follow

228

Get On Your Bikes And Ride!

229

All The World's A Stage

230

Hard Times Are Coming To Your Town

231

The F Word

232

Don't Be A Sap! Use Heartwood.

233

Three Kinds of Suffering

234

Wishin' and Hopin'

235

Welcome Back!

236

I Had To Wear Pants!

237

A Solution For Every Problem

238

Yes, I'm The Pirate Pilot

239

When Bradford Looks At Kara

240

Go, Go, Godzilla!

241

Love The One You're With

242

I Heard A Rumor

243

Chippendale's Massless Rod

244

Right Now

245

12th Anniversary of Two Hands Sangha

246

Bad Math

247

Apathetics Anonymous

248

Monumental Respect

249

Major To Minor

250

Meet The Teacher

251

Get Down and Meditate!

252

Contact to Craving

253

Contentment In Chaos

254

Eat Me...

255

Get Busy Practicing

256

New Year Intention Setting Ceremony

257

Before We Pine Away

258

Go To The Light

259

Talking With Strangers

260

Bubble Trouble

261

The Answer Is Yes

262

A Good Place To Go In

263

Where Soul Meets Body

264

Botox And Buddhism

265

The True Gift

266

Buddhism Ruins Everything ;)

267

Everyone's Tears Are Salty