The CyberSangha Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Episode 2, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion" Featuring: Norman Farb, Ph.D., Juanita Campbell Rasmus, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal, and host Alejandro Chaoul-Reich, Ph.D.

Depression can drain the color from life, often returning even after symptoms subside. In this episode, our expert panel explores:

• How to recognize depression
• The potential of meditation in easing symptoms
• Strategies for avoiding relapse during recovery
• Insights from scientific research, spirituality, and personal experience

Join us for this live online conversation as we navigate the journey beyond depression.

This content is for informational purposes only. Please consult medical professionals for physical or mental health concerns. Use headphones and avoid meditating while driving or operating machinery.

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Episode 1, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"

Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

In this inaugural episode of the CyberSangha Podcast, join us for a transformative teaching, originally broadcast on March 3, 2023, as we begin our journey of "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion." 

With the start of the Tibetan New Year, the focus of the month was on meeting any depression we may experience in our body, speech, and mind with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways of joy that are inherent to us. Recordings of simultaneous interpretation are available in Spanish and French.

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Episode 4, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"

Featuring: psychologist Ann Friedman, Ph.D.; researcher and thought leader Jud Brewer, M.D., Ph.D.; Tibetan meditation master Geshe Tenzin Wangyal; and host Alejandro Chaoul-Reich, Ph.D.

We welcome you to join us online as experts from the realms of science and spirituality share their best practices for living with and healing from anxiety. Nearly everyone is familiar with the sense of tension, worry, and insecurity that anxiety brings. When severe, anxiety can limit our daily activities. What is its ultimate source? Can we prevent or limit the symptoms? Are we better off ignoring them, or going closer to them? What role can meditation play?

“As a psychologist, having panic attacks brought me to my knees,” says panelist Ann Friedman. “Today, I consider it one of the blessings of my life, allowing me to find mindfulness, which helped me eliminate the panic attacks and minimize my anxiety.”

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Episode 3, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"

Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Our focus this month is on meeting any anxiety we may experience in our body, speech, and mind with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways of calmness that are inherent to us.

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Episode 5, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"

Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Join Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche for a live online teaching as we begin Month 3 of his new yearlong program, “Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion.” Free and open to all! Our focus this month is on meeting any loneliness we may experience in our body, speech, and mind with openness and warmth, clearing and opening a deeper, more fulfilling sense of connection to ourselves and others.

In advance of the broadcast Rinpoche encourages creating a bit of space for meditation in your house — in a quiet, peaceful location where you can feel some sense of warmth and connection to yourself. You might provide a comfortable cushion to sit on, and a candle or stick of incense. A supportive outer space can support your inner space during meditation.

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Episode 7, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"

Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Join Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche for a live online teaching as we begin Month 4 of his yearlong program, “Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion.” Free and open to all! Our focus this month is on meeting any sense of attachment we may experience in our body, speech, and mind with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways of generosity that are inherent to us.

In advance of the broadcast Rinpoche encourages creating a bit of space for meditation in your house — in a quiet, peaceful location where you can feel some sense of warmth and connection to yourself. You might provide a comfortable cushion to sit on, and a candle or stick of incense. A supportive outer space can support your inner space during meditation.

This content is for informational purposes only. Please consult medical professionals for physical or mental health concerns. Use headphones and avoid meditating while driving or operating machinery.

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Episode 6, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"

Featuring: Sharon Salzberg, Emily Lindsay, Ph.D.; Geshe Tenzin Wangyal; and host Alejandro Chaoul-Reich, Ph.D.

No matter how many friends we have on social media or how many people we are surrounded by, loneliness can be a constant companion. We may be yearning for a sense of support or connection, or feeling that we don’t quite fit in. We search for friendship, community, and intimacy, but what are we really seeking? Can meditation help us to feel more fulfilled and connected, even when we’re alone? Our panelists discuss the roots of loneliness from the perspectives of both science and spirituality.

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Episode 8, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"

Featuring: Roshi Joan Halifax, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, and Alejandro Chaoul-Reich

To be truly generous of spirit, we must loosen our attachments — not only to what we are giving, but also to our expectations for an outcome. What is the true meaning of generosity? How can we know if it’s spontaneous or effortful? What are the benefits of giving from the heart? Are there healthier forms of attachment or detachment? Our esteemed panelists discuss the how’s and why’s of living a compassionate, generous life, through to life’s end.

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Episode 12, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"

Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

When caught in ignorance you can feel deeply disconnected, unsure, uncertain, lost. You may feel you are not fully present, not at home in yourself. You doubt yourself and others and feel ill at ease. In a live online teaching, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides us in meeting any ignorance we are experiencing in our body, speech, and mind with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways of wisdom that are inherent to our true nature. The broadcast marks the start of Month 6 in Rinpoche’s yearlong program, “Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion.” Free and open to all!

In advance of the broadcast Rinpoche encourages creating a bit of space for meditation in your house — in a quiet, peaceful location where you can feel some sense of warmth and connection to yourself. You might provide a comfortable cushion to sit on, and a candle or stick of incense. A supportive outer space can support your inner space during meditation.

Episode 11, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion"

Featuring: Robert Thurman, Ph.D.; Barbara Fredrickson, Ph.D.; Geshe Tenzin Wangyal; and Alejandro Chaoul-Reich, Ph.D.

How do we balance the importance of honoring anger when it arises and not feeding it in a way that causes harm? Is it possible to separate out the wisdom aspects of anger, such as boundary-setting and clear-seeing, from its destructive side? What does it mean to transform anger into love, on a practical level? This lively dialogue will explore working with the energy of anger from the perspective of Tibetan Buddhist and Bön spirituality, alongside Western psychological approaches. The conversation will also explore both scientific and spiritual understandings on cultivating love and positive states of mind. Central to the inquiry will be the question of how to work with emotion that arises without suppressing or acting out in destructive ways, as well as how to apply antidotes that bring about transformative shifts in our energy and emotions.

This content is for informational purposes only. Please consult medical professionals for physical or mental health concerns. Use headphones and avoid meditating while driving or operating machinery.

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