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Chitta Chat with Lama John Podcast

Lama John Buchanan

Religion & Spirituality

Health & Fitness

Frequency: 1 episode/23d. Total Eps: 34

Join acclaimed yoga and Tibetan Buddhist teacher John Buchanan in this lighthearted conversational podcast series.

lamajohnbuchanan.substack.com

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🇨🇦 Canada - Buddhism
23/08/2026
#82
🇩🇪 Germany - Buddhism
17/07/2025
#76
🇩🇪 Germany - Buddhism
16/07/2025
#78
🇫🇷 France - Buddhism
21/12/2024
#96
🇫🇷 France - Buddhism
20/12/2024
#88
🇫🇷 France - Buddhism
19/12/2024
#86
🇫🇷 France - Buddhism
18/12/2024
#86
🇫🇷 France - Buddhism
13/12/2024
#38

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https://lamajohnbuchanan.substack.com/p/season-03-begins-december-15
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https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Kawa_Paltsek
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The Five Aggregates (part 09)

Monday, June 24, 2024 • Duration 49:50

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lamajohnbuchanan.substack.com

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The Five Aggregates (part 08)

Friday, May 10, 2024 • Duration 04:49

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In this episode, Lama John continues discussing the first topic, “The Five Aggregates,” from the classic text “A Manual of Key Buddhist Terms: Categorization of Buddhist Terminologies With Commentary” by Kawa Paltsek. (Click here for an overview of the text.)

Continuing with the Non-associated compositional factors started in the previous episode, Lama J…

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The Five Aggregates (part 07)

Saturday, April 27, 2024 • Duration 05:11

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Lama John begins by talking about how when we first begin meditating it’s hard to see results, t…

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The Five Aggregates (part 06)

Sunday, March 31, 2024 • Duration 11:11

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Lama John spends the first few minutes describing the essence of the effortless path of Mahamudr…

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The Five Aggregates (part 05)

Tuesday, March 19, 2024 • Duration 03:11

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Lama John first talks about his recent revelation and decision to begin labeling himself as a Ma…

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The Five Aggregates (part 04)

Monday, March 4, 2024 • Duration 05:00

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He continues talking about the fourth aggregate, that of Compositional Factors, also known as me…

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The Five Aggregates (part 03)

Saturday, February 17, 2024 • Duration 50:48

First he talks about his recent two-week retreat, where he discovered the new approach that he will take moving forward with his teaching. He then talks about the fourth aggregate, that of Compositional Factors, also known as mental formations (sankharas), that are considered willful mental actions, triggered by some object, that produce karma.

There are 51 psychic factors, which are further delineated into omnipresent factors, determining factors, virtuous factors, six root afflictions, secondary afflictions, and changeable factors (the first two are discussed in this episode). We all experience these factors differently, based on our karma, and the nature of our belief system makes it so that we see only what we believe. He then describes how mindfulness can be for good or bad and similarly our knowledge can be correct or incorrect.

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The Five Aggregates (part 02)

Monday, January 15, 2024 • Duration 58:55

He dives into the second and third aggregates, feeling and recognition, and describes the role they play in our happiness and the perception of our reality. As always, karma plays a big role in everything. He describes the three feelings (happiness, suffering, neutral) and how we experience each of the three realms of recognition (desire, form, and formless).

He further explains how stability of awareness leads to greater serenity and how, in the formless realm, we can disappear entirely from our concept of self.

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The Five Aggregates (part 01)

Saturday, December 16, 2023 • Duration 01:03:47

In this inaugural episode of Season 03, Lama John discusses the first topic, “The Five Aggregates,” from the classic text “A Manual of Key Buddhist Terms: Categorization of Buddhist Terminologies With Commentary” by Kawa Paltsek. (Click here for an overview of the text.)

The first of the five aggregates (a.k.a., the five skandhas, the five conditions, the five heaps, or the five collections) is the 15 form aggregates, which consists of the four elements and the eleven physical manifestations stemming from those elements. (Buddhism loves its lists and taxonomies, to be sure.) Lama John explains how the four elements can, to a varying degree, be found in everything, and that the interaction between the elements and the physical manifestations creates our reality and our sense of self. The result is our own personal magical display of the elements in space, which is wholly based on our karma.

A deep understanding of these interactions will eventually lead us to break down the conceptual barrier of “outside me” and “inside me,” to see that this ignorance of our true nature is, at the end of the day, just an idea in our mind.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lamajohnbuchanan.substack.com

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Unifying Method and Wisdom (part 06)

Tuesday, November 7, 2023 • Duration 01:05:39

In this episode, Lama John concludes reading from the “Unifying Method and Wisdom” chapter from Kamalaśīla’s “Stages of Meditation,” the final chapter in the text. He begins by talking about how you can gauge progress in your meditation by noticing the cessation of mental afflictions in your mind that had been there before. He then goes on to describe how difficult it is to let go of our samsaric tendencies due to our propensity to get ensnared, virtually non-stop, in the net of our conceptual elaborations. As the text comes to a close, he tells us to never give up, to keep going forward on this path toward the ocean of omniscience, toward Bodhisattvahood, toward Buddhahood. We can do this!

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