SWITCH (Talk 2): Working with Difficult Thoughts | Warning! Danger!
Jun 18, 202646mEp. 147
What do we do with a thought that's stubbornly compelling, one that we can’t—or don't want to—let go of?
Hosted by Vanessa Zuisei Goddard · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 172 episodes
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A collection of dharma talks by Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, Guiding Teacher at Ocean Mind Sangha.
Vanessa Zuisei Goddard hosts Ocean Mind Sangha, a religion show with 172 episodes published.
What do we do with a thought that's stubbornly compelling, one that we can’t—or don't want to—let go of?
What gets in the way of seeing clearly? Inevitably, it’s our own thoughts—thoughts of greed, anger, and delusion. Learning to work with these thoughts
The trouble of suffering always emerges from ignorance. But ignorance of what exactly?
The trouble of suffering always emerges from ignorance. But ignorance of what exactly?
When things happen that we cannot control, we can always choose how to respond. This is the path to liberation.
Jukai ceremony at Ocean Mind Sangha. Listen and join in as OMS students formally commit to lives guided by the ethical teachings of Buddhism with their teacher Zuisei and the sangha.
A teaching on the eight worldly winds: all the ways we chase and run away and the antidotes to this endless cycle.
What happens when we turn the mind around to look at itself?
How to make practice intimate and personal, from intention to dedication, one precious and perfect whole.
The contemplative life as a gate to liberation
The power of karma to affect both our past and present actions
How do we realize and express the next buddha as sangha? How do we help each other wake up?
How to take responsibility for our harmful actions, consistently and with compassion.
A talk on taking refuge and the I as the maker of measurement.
Based on OMS’s study of Illumination: A Guide to the Buddhist Method of No-Method by Rebecca Li, Zuisei traces the origins of “just sitting”
Five stages to apply to formal dharma practice and to all living
Why must we counter today’s tendency towards isolation? Zuisei sheds light on a way back to ourselves and each other
A talk on the joy of growing into who you’ve alway been—awe, terror and a kind of ignorance included.
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