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The Empty Cup

Tsering Paldron

Religion & Spirituality

Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/14d. Total Eps: 13

An empty cup is not blankness; it’s availability. It is the willingness to look more closely at our assumptions, to meet life in a relaxed manner with an open heart. Open to accepting the present moment as it is. If your mind is full—full of opinions, expectations, habitual thinking—, this podcast invites you to sit back, relax and be emptied.

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The Kindness of Limits

Episode 13

Tuesday, September 8, 2026 • Duration 22:51

We often think kindness means saying yes, giving more, staying longer, being endlessly available.
But sometimes a limit is not the opposite of compassion. It is what allows compassion to remain genuine.
In this episode of The Empty Cup, we explore the delicate balance between caring for others and not disappearing from the equation ourselves — and how a clear “no” can sometimes be kinder than a resentful “yes.”

Perhaps wisdom is not choosing between ourselves and others, but learning how care can include both.
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Give happiness a chance

Episode 12

Tuesday, August 25, 2026 • Duration 20:41

Unhappiness can become a habit.

Not because life is always difficult, but because the mind can become so accustomed to noticing what is wrong that, eventually, it keeps finding reasons to suffer even when circumstances have changed.

In this episode of The Empty Cup, we explore how habits of perception shape our experience — and how, without denying pain or pretending everything is wonderful, we can gently begin to notice what else is true.

Sometimes happiness is already there.

We just have to give it a chance.
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The extraordinary ordinariness of things

Episode 11

Tuesday, August 11, 2026 • Duration 17:09

We spend so much of our lives waiting for something extraordinary to happen—for love, awakening, purpose, or simply the feeling that this is it.

Meanwhile, life keeps arriving in remarkably ordinary forms: a conversation, a difficult moment, light through a window, a cup, a spoon.

What if the extraordinary isn't somewhere else? What if we simply keep overlooking it because it doesn't look the way we imagined?

In this episode of The Empty Cup, we explore what happens when we stop asking reality to be different—and begin to notice the quiet wonder of what is already here.

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Everything Changes...

Episode 10

Tuesday, July 28, 2026 • Duration 16:09

Everything changes. Our bodies. Our relationships. Our thoughts. Our emotions. Every moment is born, unfolds, and disappears. And yet… Is there something that never changes?

In this episode of The Empty Cup, we explore one of the great paradoxes of the Buddhist tradition: how impermanence and timelessness are not opposites, but two inseparable aspects of reality. A reflection on uncertainty, meditation, the confidence of the View, and the quiet fearlessness that gradually emerges when we discover that, although everything is constantly changing, what is most fundamental has never been threatened by change.

Because perhaps true confidence does not come from making life more predictable. It comes from discovering that everything changes… and yet, nothing changes.

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Nothing to Defend

Episode 9

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 • Duration 12:40

What does it really mean to be humble?

Many of us confuse humility with low self-esteem, making ourselves smaller, or putting everyone else first. But perhaps true humility is something entirely different.

In this episode of The Empty Cup, we explore the gradual release of the one who says "my body," "my thoughts," "my life"—the subtle sense of being the owner of our existence. As that contraction begins to soften, our relationship with ourselves and with others changes. We no longer need to prove, compare, rescue, or be rescued. We simply become more available to life.

A reflection on humility, the illusion of ownership, the wave and the ocean, and the quiet freedom that appears when we stop placing ourselves at the centre of everything.

Because perhaps humility is not becoming less.

It is remembering that we were never separate.
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When The Question Disappears

Episode 8

Tuesday, June 30, 2026 • Duration 14:22

For much of our lives, we feel that life is happening to us. We struggle against what we don't want, chase what we think we need, and search for meaning in everything that happens.

But what if our understanding matures over time?

In this episode of The Empty Cup, we explore the quiet transformation that can take place as our perspective deepens: from blame to compassion, from compassion to gratitude, and from gratitude to something even more unexpected—the discovery that life may never have been against us, or in our favour. It has simply been unfolding.

A reflection on suffering, forgiveness, the search for meaning, and the profound simplicity that appears when we stop asking life to justify itself and begin to inhabit its mystery.

Perhaps awakening is not about finding all the answers.

Perhaps it is about discovering that reality has always been quietly, innocently, exactly as it is.

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Spiritual Friends

Episode 7

Tuesday, June 16, 2026 • Duration 15:16

What makes a spiritual friendship different from an ordinary friendship?

In this episode of The Empty Cup, we explore the rare and precious companions who walk beside us on the path. The ones who encourage our growth rather than our stories, who help us see our blind spots without judgment, who remind us not to lose heart, and who can make us laugh when we take ourselves too seriously.

A reflection on trust, honesty, kindness, humour, and the mysterious way some people enter our lives exactly when they are needed.

Because sometimes, the greatest gift a spiritual friend can offer is simply to help us remember what truly matters.

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Gratitude for the Wisdom

Episode 6

Tuesday, June 2, 2026 • Duration 13:41

What is devotion?

Blind faith, admiration, emotional dependence... or something else entirely?

In this episode of The Empty Cup, we explore devotion as "gratitude for Wisdom" and reflect on how to relate to teachers with both openness and discernment. How can we recognise the Wisdom that shines through someone without idealising the person? And what happens when teachers reveal their humanity—or fail to live up to our expectations?

A reflection on trust, perception, gratitude, and the delicate art of keeping the heart open without losing clarity.

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The Heart of Sadness

Episode 5

Tuesday, May 19, 2026 • Duration 10:23

There is a kind of sadness that is not only about loss. When what we rely on falls away, something older is revealed—an underlying openness we usually try to cover. When we dare to face it, we develop the courage to remain open. Even when nothing is resolved. Even when nothing is promised. Even when life does not give us what we hoped for.
This episode explores what happens when we do not rush to fill that space, and how the ache, when met directly, can soften into a quiet tenderness.

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The eyelash in the eye

Episode 4

Monday, May 4, 2026 • Duration 11:29

For some, the unease of being is barely noticeable. For others, it is immediate and intimate.

This episode explores that quiet, persistent ache—and what becomes possible when we stop trying to cover it, and begin to look more closely.

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