The Wisdom and Compassion podcast is an offering by Lama Lekshe at Dekeling, a Buddhist meditation community in Portland, Oregon, where our aim is to make the ancient wisdom and practices of Tibetan Buddhism available to lay people today. Podcasts are organized by searchable categories below.
Practicing When Things are Difficult
Challenging times can be the best times to practice. Suffering is compelling, so you might find that resting awareness on your experience is easier than when things are going well.
Guided Meditation: The Stages of Dying (concise)
This is a brief guided meditation on the stages of dying or 'bardos.' In Buddhism, the term 'bardo' typically refers to the intermediate state between death and rebirth; though it can refer to any transition.
Holding a View, True or Not
Why would I experiment of holding a view if I am not sure it's true? This experiment can cause you to learn something beyond your current knowing—through direct experience.
Common Misconceptions about Tibetan Buddhism
You know those rumors you heard about Tibetan Buddhism? Listen and see if they are true.
The Seven Branch Prayer
The mindful recitation of Seven-Branch Prayer, which is often done inside another practice—like Green Tara, for example— epitomizes all the practices of gathering the accumulations as well as the purification of harmful deeds, thoughts, or speech and also of obscurations.
Guided Meditation: Tonglen for a World in Conflict
Step into a space of introspection and compassionate inquiry as you embark on a contemplative journey through the landscape of global conflict.
What is an Unbounded View?
In Buddhism, the concept of the 'unbounded view' typically refers to the perception of reality that transcends narrow, limited perspectives.
Shall I Practice the Mahayana or the Vajrayana?
The choice between practicing Mahayana or Vajrayana Buddhism is deeply personal and depends on individual inclinations, aspirations, and circumstances.
Tendrel
In Buddhism, "tendrel" (Tibetan: རྟེན་འབྲེལ་) refers to the concept of interdependence or interconnectedness. It is closely related to the Buddhist principle of dependent origination (pratītyasamutpāda), which teaches that all phenomena arise in dependence upon causes and conditions.
Generosity: Can we Offer Fearlessness to the World?
In Buddhism, one of the greatest generosities is to remove fear and the causes of fear for other beings. How can we practice generosity by offering fearlessness to others? What does fearlessness look like?