Advertise on podcast: Clear Mountain Monastery

In this talk, Ajahn Nisabho speaks about how to cultivate the luminous mind through a playful approach in meditation, utilizing both a primary focused object, such as the breath, alongside a secondary object, such as metta, the nada sound, or a broad awareness of the body.

In this session, Ajahn Kovilo interviews his father, psychiatrist James R. Hillard, about mental well-being and psycho-pathology – especially how these relate to Buddhist thought and meditative practice. These broader topics will be looked at through the lens of the relationship between (in words of the "Monk and Dad" cartoon series) "an atheo-psychiatrist father and his Buddho-monastic son."

In this session, Ajahn Nisabho speaks on being a pacifist in the culture wars.

In this session, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho speak with Marjorie Woollacott. Marjorie Woollacott, Ph.D., is an Emeritus Professor and prior chair of the Dept. of Human Physiology, and member of the Institute of Neuroscience, at the University of Oregon. She taught courses in neuroscience and rehabilitation, as well as complementary medicine and meditation. She is President of the Academy for the Advancement of Post-Materialist Sciences (AAPS) and Research Director for the International Association of Near-Death Studies (IANDS).

In this "Community Stories" session, Clear Mountain members Jessica, Sid, Mary, Axel, Jon, Sarah, Damien, Joseph, Liem, Samek, and JT speak about what the Dhamma has meant to them, and how it's helped them move through grief.

In this session, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho interview their good kalyāṇamittas Ayyā Santussikā & Ayyā Cittānandā of the Karuna Buddhist Monastery. Both Ayyās answer the question of "What kind of bhikkhuni could illuminate the redwood-tree grove?" based on a question famously asked at MN 32.

In this talk, Ajahn Nisabho speaks about the need to bring joy, beauty, and love into spiritual practice to sustain and strengthen the heart through the acts of relinquishment the path also entails.

In this session, Ajahn Kovilo speaks with his friend and fellow Dharma Realm Buddhist University student, Zenshin Dillon Balmaceda about his work doing Buddhist Chaplaincy including hospice work and prison ministry.

In this talk, Ajahn Nisabho speaks about ways to counter anger and aversion, cultivating forgiveness and an understanding of conditionality instead. The "Eight Verses of Mind Training" referenced at the end can be found here: https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/geshe-langri-thangpa/eight-verses-training-mind

In this session, Ajahn Nisabho and Ajahn Kovilo interview Rabbi Jordan Bendat-Appell about contemplative practices and shared resonances in the Jewish and Buddhist traditions.

In this session, Ajahn Nisabho interviews Tara Springett, a meditation teacher specializing in "Kundalini Awakening", about meditation-induced spiritual crisis, side effects of expansion of consciousness, effects of drug use on the aura, and supernatural sensitivities.

In this talk, Ajahn Nisabho describes the Buddhist cosmos, from the hells to the heavens, ending with advice for how we can confront the Māra, master of the sensual sphere.