60(ish) seconds of BuddhaMindfulness with your host, Shannon M Whitaker. Come and get 'em!
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Recordings from Shannon's regular guided meditation sessions. Sometimes on the lo-fi side. Interested in attending live? Email us at hello@cultivate.gg.
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One practitioner’s four-year journey to become a professional in Mindfulness and Secular Buddhism, without getting all mysterious and solemn about it. Join Shannon M Whitaker, co-host Jeff Street, and guests as we discuss the science, philosophy, culture, and practice of mindfulness: What’s the latest fMRI research actually telling us about the effects of Loving-Kindness on the brain? Why is Loving-Kindness a terrible translation of the Pāli word “Metta”? How are other practitioners navigati ...
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Welcome to Dharma PhD! In this episode we discuss how even the most seemingly unskillful stuff (watching the HBO TV series "The Last of Us" https://www.hbo.com/the-last-of-us) can be approached as part of Dhamma practice. And no, this is not just an excuse to watch more Pedro Pascal. Transcript of the episode: https://dharmaphd.com/2023/06/05/dharm…
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Welcome to Dharma PhD! In this episode Jeff helps Shannon with her homework on Majjhima Nikāya 26 (MN26), The Ariyapariyesanā Sutta. We also talk a lot about Lamborghinis. Some links for your rabbit-holing pleasure: Bodhi College: https://bodhi-college.org/ Bodhi College's Committed Practitioners Program: https://bodhi-college.org/events/31-committ…
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Welcome to Dharma PhD! In this episode we talk about John Peacocks' talk, "Buddhism Before the Theravada, Part 6". We talk about paṭiccasamuppāda (Dependent Origination) as a Buddhist model of cognition and about how having a framework such as this one to understand our experience can help us deal with craving and grasping loops. A few things refer…
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Welcome to Dharma PhD! In this episode we talk about Paṭiccasamuppāda, Dependent Origination, using John Peacocks', "Buddhism Before the Theravada, Part 5" as a jumping off point. We talk about how Paṭiccasamuppāda, Dependent Origination, has myriad implications. And then we focus on just one implication, causing skillful behaviors and mental/emoti…
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Friendliness or Metta Meditation. Recorded 2021-03-12. Offered with friendliness! If you listen to meditations on Insight Timer, you can check us out there, search for "Cultivate". Want to get in touch? We're over at www.dharmaphd.com.Shannon M Whitaker
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Arrival Meditation. Recorded 2021-03-12. Offered with friendliness! If you listen to meditations on Insight Timer, you can check us out there, search for "Cultivate". Want to get in touch? We're over at www.dharmaphd.com.Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Friendliness or Metta Meditation. Recorded 2021-03-09. Offered with friendliness! If you listen to meditations on Insight Timer, you can check us out there, search for "Cultivate". Want to get in touch? We're over at www.dharmaphd.com.Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Awareness of Breathing Meditation. Recorded 2021-03-09. Offered with friendliness! If you listen to meditations on Insight Timer, you can check us out there, search for "Cultivate". Want to get in touch? We're over at www.dharmaphd.com.Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Body Scan Meditation. Recorded 2021-03-05. Offered with friendliness! If you listen to meditations on Insight Timer, you can check us out there, search for "Cultivate". Want to get in touch? We're over at www.dharmaphd.com.Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Regarding my translation of MN61, Advice to Rāhula at Ambalattikā Sutta, the original text only refers to considering the welfare of self and other. I believe, however, that Siddhattha Gotama was concerned for human flourishing. And i…
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. If you're curious to try a pre-meal warmup meditation, here's one you can try: https://guided-meditations-with-shannon.captivate.fm/episode/pre-meal-warmup-ep3. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!…
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Friendliness or Metta Meditation. Recorded 2021-03-02. Offered with friendliness! If you listen to meditations on Insight Timer, you can check us out there, search for "Cultivate". Want to get in touch? We're over at www.dharmaphd.com.Shannon M Whitaker
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Awareness of Breathing Meditation. Recorded 2021-03-02. Offered with friendliness! If you listen to meditations on Insight Timer, you can check us out there, search for "Cultivate". Want to get in touch? We're over at www.dharmaphd.com.Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. We first touched on touch (!) in Episode 17. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. In Episode 12 we first started exploring sound. And in Episode 23 we started exploring hedonic tone (aka Vedanā). Don't worry if this one feels a little challenging. We'll take plenty of time this week to practice. Want to reach out? …
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want a downloadable pdf to help you remember the 5Rs? Here's one! The 5Rs are an adaptation of Bhante Vimalaramsi's 6Rs. His teachings are available over at DhammaSukha.org. He introduced them as a tool for helping with distractions d…
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Friendliness or Metta Meditation. Recorded 2021-02-19. Offered with friendliness! If you listen to meditations on Insight Timer, you can check us out there, search for "Cultivate". Want to get in touch? We're over at www.dharmaphd.com.Shannon M Whitaker
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Moving Into Choiceless Awareness Meditation. Recorded 2021-02-19. Offered with friendliness! If you listen to meditations on Insight Timer, you can check us out there, search for "Cultivate". Want to get in touch? We're over at www.dharmaphd.com.Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. We talked about feeling open versus feeling closed in Episodes 10 and 11. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Friendliness or Metta Meditation. Recorded 2021-02-17. Offered with friendliness! If you listen to meditations on Insight Timer, you can check us out there, search for "Cultivate". Want to get in touch? We're over at www.dharmaphd.com.Shannon M Whitaker
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Awareness of Breathing Meditation. Recorded 2021-02-17. Offered with friendliness! If you listen to meditations on Insight Timer, you can check us out there, search for "Cultivate". Want to get in touch? We're over at www.dharmaphd.com.Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Friendliness or Metta Meditation. Recorded 2021-02-12. Offered with friendliness! If you listen to meditations on Insight Timer, you can check us out there, search for "Cultivate". Want to get in touch? We're over at www.dharmaphd.com.Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Body Scan Meditation. Recorded 2021-02-12. Offered with friendliness! If you listen to meditations on Insight Timer, you can check us out there, search for "Cultivate". Want to get in touch? We're over at www.dharmaphd.com.Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. The study about chocolate is available here: https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/124/9/1720/303201. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Friendliness or Metta Meditation. Recorded 2021-02-09. Offered with friendliness! If you listen to meditations on Insight Timer, you can check us out there, search for "Cultivate". Want to get in touch? We're over at www.dharmaphd.com.Shannon M Whitaker
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Welcome back to Buddha Bites, bringing you delicious morsels of BuddhaMindfulness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Want to reach out? We're over at dharmaphd.com. Thanks for listening!Shannon M Whitaker
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Friendliness or Metta Meditation. Recorded 2021-02-05. Offered with friendliness! If you listen to meditations on Insight Timer, you can check us out there, search for "Cultivate". Want to get in touch? We're over at www.dharmaphd.com.Shannon M Whitaker
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