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Undefended Dharma with Mary Stancavage — 384 episodes
Grief and Kindness
The Three Poisons
Saying Hi to the Demons
Touching the World Lightly
Releasing the Stories
What Gets In the Way
Know That You Know
The 5th Precept
Sad - No Problem
The Intimacy of Now
Do Not Take What is Not Freely Offered
Finding Freedom with the Way it Is
The Dhammapada and the Lizard
It's Not Personal
It's Like This
The Shambala Warrior
Grief 2026
Persistence and Patience
Aspire to Awakening
Practicing the Pause
Collectedness of Mind
A Foundation of Love
The One You Feed
Living the Four Noble Truths
What Now - How Do We Hold This?
Communicating with Clarity
The Difficult Practice
Understanding What it Means
Clarity and Delusion
The Four Domains
Mindfulness All the Time
Our Great Teacher
Truth and Reality
The Wisdom of Gratitude
Embodied Dharma
The Pause that Heals
Recognizing Our Reactions
Truth is Freedom
A Reflection on Emptiness
The Gap Between the Thoughts
The Importance of Wisdom
Awe Amidst Suffering
Europe Reflections
Intention and Expectations
Check in With Your Spiritual Practice
Taking Refuge
The Fire Sermon
Patience and Freedom
Being Aware of Our Legacy
10,000 Joys and 10,000 Sorrows
Don't You Know Who I Am?
Simple Reflections
It's Not Personal - or Permanent or Perfect
The Undefended Heart - Now More Than Ever
What is Liberation?
Sangha as Beloved Community
The Truth is Right Here
Building a Foundation for Freedom
Calm Knowing
Managing the Transition
Skillful Means
Internal Revolution of the Heart
Just Collecting Data
Reflections on Retreat
Heirs to Our Actions
Care for Ourselves, Care for Others
Relax the Body, Relax the Mind
The Roller Coaster is the Human Condition
Hope as a Practice
Taming the Monkey Mind
The Path of No Preference
Be a Buddha
The Antidote to Fear
Stepping into the Darkness
Cruising the Dharma
The Long Journey
The Bodhisattva Realm
Grief, Anger and All the Feels
Supporting Our Intentions
So Many Rules
Greet the Moment with Peace
Finding Your Way
Let Go Let Be
Opening Ourselves
Suffering and Joy
Finding Our Foundation
November 2024
Seeing Our Goodness
Holding It Together
The Path of Wisdom
Tea with Demons
Sati - Being With
Tentativenss of Life
Choiceless Awareness
It Can't Be Different from the Way It Is
The Eight Worldly Winds
There is No There There
Only This Moment
Recognizing Our Fixed Views
The Noble Eightfold Path
Facing Complexity with Gentleness
Grounded in Groundlessness
Relax, Observe, Allow
Everyday Sublime
Do Good. Avoid Bad. Purify the Mind.
How Do We Do the Dharma - The Path of Kindness.
Dropping the Self and Opening to Joy
Samsara is a Mess
Conventional and Ultimate Reality
How Do We Forgive?
An Undefended Heart
We Are All of a Nature
Wise Speech in Challenging Times
Letting Go Again and Again
Shining a Light on Grief
Everyday Impermanence
Dropping the 2nd Arrow
The Four Efforts
Overwhelm is in the Mind
Grounded in Gratitude
Heart Practices for Our Times
Reflections in the Moment
Taking Refuge
Love and a Very Loud World
It's All Real
Start Where You Are
The Six Realms of Saṃsāra
To Cling is to Suffer
Spiritual Reslience
Greeting the World with Goodwill
Wear the World as a Loose Garment
Connection and Community
Finding Ease in the Present Moment
It's On Fire
Gratitude and Grief
Yeah, but...
My Brother Died
Greeting the Demons
Good Wolf or Bad Wolf?
Staying Grounded in a World of Uncertainty
Living the Dharma in Difficult Times
Deep Intimacy with our Experience
Generosity, Patience, Metta
Everything is in This Moment
Continuity of Mindfulness
Wrong View
Not Permanent, Not Perfect, Not Personal
Holding Emotions
Impermanence & Uncertainty
Be Careful of Your Legacy
Joy Joy Joy
A Little Awareness, A Little Emptiness, A Little No-Self
No One Gets Out of Here Alive
Put Down the Stick of Self
The Protection of Lovingkindness
Don't Know, Let Go
A Short Reflection on Equanimity
A Slippery Slope
Freedom Through Mindfulness
The Relevancy of the Dharma
Recognizing Delusion
You Must Be Present to Win
Follow the Path of Liberation
Available to Experience
Generosity of the Heart - Mudita
Life Teaches Us How to Live It
Intention and the Paramis
The Three Powers
Death and Compassion
Women in Buddhism
Distractions and Habit Energies
Snow Distractions
A Foundational Heart Practice
We Are of a Nature
Greet Everything with Compassion
Greetings
The Simplicity of Ajahn Chah
Three Dimensions of a Complete Life
Walking Towards Awakening
Rest in Being
Darkness and Light
Exploring Family Relationships
Awakening, Volition and Neuroscience
The Water We Swim In
Grief and Gratitude
Mindfulness: Right Here, Right Now
Start Where You Are
Doing Good in the World
Being in the World
Obstacles to Awakening
Wisdom and Suffering
Kindness
Karma and Choice
Dukkha Dukkha Dukkha
Meditation: Being in the Now
The Path to Liberation
All You Need is Love
Fourteen Years
Grief and Loss
Setting Intentions with Integrity and Compassion
My Human Condition
The Experience of Impermanence
Don't Believe, Live
Turning the Wheel of the Dharma
The Importance of Connection
Liberation
The Delusion of the Hindrances
Thoughts Are Not the Enemy
Why Love is So Important Right Now
2022 and the Undefended Heart
The Brahma Viharas and the Undefended Heart
Refuge in the Buddha
It's Tough Right Now
Don't Know Mind
You Don't Do the Dharma, the Dharma Does You
Joy
The Brahma Viharas
The Fifth Training Precept
The 4th Training Precept
The 2nd and 3rd Training Precepts
Opening Up to Difficult Moments
The First Training Precept
Feeling All the Feels
A Wise Heart
It's All Real
It's All In the Mind
Remembering Thích Nhất Hạnh
The Perfection of Wisdom
Connection
There Is Nowhere Else
New Year's Eve 2021 Intention Setting
New Year's Eve 2021 Refuges and Precepts
Letting Go Into Clarity
The Wisdom and Love of bell hooks
Setting Intention with the Paramis
Kisa Gotami: Grief, Loss, Community
Buddhist Personality Types
Stay the Course
A Beneficial Alternative
They Come and They Go
What is Insight?
The Mahasangha
Nothing Lasts Forever
I See You Mara
The Human Condition
I'm So Happy for You!
The Meaning of Life
The Dhammapada
Decolonizing the Mind
The Eightfold Path: Right Concentration
The Eightfold Path: Right Mindfulness Part 2
The Eightfold Path: Right Mindfulness Part 1
The Eightfold Path: Right Effort
The Eightfold Path: Right Livelihood
The Eightfold Path: Right Action
The Eightfold Path: Right Speech
The Eightfold Path: Right Intention
The Eightfold Path: Right View
Meditation: Lovingkindness (Metta)
Anatta: The Conditioned Self
The Four Protective Meditations
Look Around
A Brave New World - Or Is It?
Insidious Delusion
Making It Safe for Everyone
Distortions of the Mind
We're All Human
Practice: Just Like Riding a Bicycle
Diving into the Satipaṭṭhāna
Relaxed and Aware
Be a Bodhisattva
The Power of the Pause
The Path to Enlightenment
Blame and Shame
Dharma Everywhere
Getting Unstuck
Don't Miss the Joy
Making Peace with Our Demons
Holding Ourselves Dear
Reclaiming the Heart, Reclaiming the Sacred
A New Beginning
Being Fully Present
Being with the Dark
Seven Factors of Awakening
Commitment to Metta
Wisdom, Compassion, Heartbreak
Reflections on This Moment
Opening into Spaciousness
Strong Back, Soft Front
Equanimity
Habits of Mind
Friendship, Connection, Community
The Four Passing Sights
Don't Miss What's Happening!
Taking Refuge in the Heart
The Paramis as a Framework for Working with the World
What is This? - Beginner's Mind
Grief Rage Hope Despair
Skillful Means: Moving through the World with Wisdom and Compassion
From Delusion to Wise Action
Escape from Deep Conditioning
Training the Mind
Impermanence and Change
Wise Action: Standing Firm in the Dharma
Kindness and Intimacy
Gratification, Danger, Escape
The Early Buddhist Nuns
Where Are You Right Now?
A Place of Profound Balance
Finding a Place to Hold You
Joy in the Time of Covid
See For Yourself...
Reality on the Cushion
Taking Care of Ourselves
Let in the Good
The Heart Practices
Pandemic and the Undefended Heart
Getting Unstuck
Meditation: Rest in Being
It's Always Something
Working with the Mind
Fear, Love and COVID-19
The Wisdom of Ajahn Chah in Today's World
What's Love Got to Do With It?
The Five Remembrances
Fear, Anxiety and RAIN
The Eightfold Path
Intention and a Reflection on My Grandmother's Hands
The Importance of Retreat
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness
Living with Compassion for All Beings
Cultivating Gratitude
Practicing Self-Restraint
Taking Care of Ourselves
10,000 Joys - 10,000 Sorrows
Emptiness
Staying Away from Expectations
Letting In the Good
Ignorance and the Beautiful Qualties
Nowhere to Go; Nothing to Do; No One to Be
Lead with the Heart
Aspiration and Intention
The Paramis
Groundlessness
A Dharma Journey
Spiritual Bypass
Transition and Transformation
Obstacles to Awareness: The Hindrances
Ehipassiko: Find Your Own Way
Just Be
Facing Your Demons
Guardians of the World
The Eight Worldly Winds - A Practice in Equanimity
In the Moment
Desire and Craving
Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys - The Practice of Letting Go
Live as Though the Truth Were True
Guarding the Sense Doors
Living with an Undefended Heart
Be a Buddha Not a Buddhist
Heart Practices - The Near Enemies
Love Really Is the Answer
Working with the Defilements
Working with the Insanity of the World
Gratitude
Nirvana Right Here, Right Now
Working with the Body
Faith and the Five Spiritual Faculties
Wake Up to Your Conditioning
Wise Concentration - 8th Factor of the Eightfold Path
Wise Mindfulness - The 7th Factor of the Eightfold Path
The Metta Sutta
Awakening Joy
Wise Effort - 6th Factor of the Eightfold Path
Setting Intention with Wisdom and Compassion
Wise Action - 4th Factor of the Eightfold Path
Hope and Love
Wise Speech - 3rd Factor of the Eightfold Path
Wise Intention - 2nd Factor of the Eightfold Path
Avoiding the Second Arrow
Wise View - 1st Factor of the Eightfold Path
Letting Go of Fixed Views
The Fourfold Task
Reaction vs Response