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Debra Flics -What Meditation Can’t Cure

Meditation wasn’t designed to heal early psychological wounds, explains Debra Flics. She cautions us not to look to it as a replacement for psychotherapy. Many Westerners, when they come to dharma practice, come looking for psychological healing—but this is not what meditation was designed to do. As meditation has become mainstream, it has been marketed as a way to address physical and emotional ailments as well as a way to...

Movie: “Samsara-Vòng Luân Hồi”

Watch Samsara movie trailer Samsara is a 2001 independent Indian/Italian/French/German film which tells the story of a Buddhist monk‘s quest to find Enlightenment. The film stars Shawn Ku as the monk Tashi, and Christy Chung as Pema. It was directed by Pan Nalin and written by Pan and Tim Baker. The film’s plot is reminiscent of the story of the sage Vishvamitra and the apsara Menaka. Samsara was awarded “Audience Award for The Most Popular Film” by the 51st Melbourne International Film Festival, among other awards from other festivals, and...

Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds – Beyond Thinking

“Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We live our lives pursuing happiness “out there” as if it is a commodity. We have become slaves to our own desires and craving. Happiness isn’t something that can be pursued or purchased like a cheap suit. This is Maya, illusion, the endless play of form. In the Buddhist tradition, Samsara, or the endless cycle of suffering is perpetuated by the craving of...

Buddhist chants and songs by Ani Choying Drolma

“Celebrating Our Twenty Year Milestone” The Stanford Center for Buddhist studies was originally founded in 1997. In 2008 it was renamed The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford as a result of a generous endowment from The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation with matching funds from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The Center is dedicated to promoting both the academic study and...