![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Giving Thanks - Tamarack Garlow
The recognition of the importance of gratitude in our lives. How being grateful for what we have, good or bad, provides the lessons in life that allows our consciousness to expand and grow. Even hard lessons like illness, enemies and difficult events can be the signpost guiding our mind to a place of greater clarity.
Keywords: thanksgiving; gratitude; diamond path; tamarack garlow; wbcr; heart-mind buddhism
Downloads: 58 |
| Peace Events, Past and Future - Tamarack Garlow
A description of the September 15th "Walk for Peace" in Great Barrington, Ma in support of a U.S. Dept of Peace and a preview of an upcoming event on September 23rd at Aspinwell in Lenox, Ma called The Heartbeat of Peace Festival. This event is 8 hours of entertainment combined with information from various peace, outreach and social justice organizations working in this region to better the lives of those in the community.
Keywords: Heartbeat of Peace Festival; peace; festival; Lenox; social organizations; outreach groups; berkshire county
Downloads: 28 |
| Impermanence or Change - Tamarack Garlow
A survey of the element of change in our lives, especially concerning the change of our own death.
Keywords: impermanence; change; 3 marks of existence; diamond path; tendai; buddhism; death; wbcr; attachment; tamarack garlow
Downloads: 74 |
| Skillful Means - Tamarack Garlow
How Buddha taught that we can act and speak to others using skillful means - regardless of their capacities, interests or abilities we can communicate and spread the truth of compassion by relating to the other's capacity to understand or feel. Skillful Means is relating to others on their level and in their "language" to facilitate and recognize connectedness and to foster the Dharma in everyday acts.
Keywords: Skillful means; upaya; Buddhism; Lotus Sutra; WBCR; Diamond Path; Tamarack Garlow
Downloads: 48 |
| An Exploration of the Seed Syllable Om - Tamarack Garlow
The history and meaning of the mantra Om. With roots in the Hindu religion it has been accepted into Buddhism and represents a tool in esoteric practice and a symbol for the non-dual .
Keywords: om; seed syllable; buddhism; emptiness; non-dual; vairocanna; diamond path; tamarack garlow; esoteric practice
Downloads: 100 |
| The Diamond Path--Science and Non-self - Tamarack Garlow
life situations discussed from a Buddhist perspective. Heard weekly on WBCR-LP, 97.7 FM, Great Barrington, MA
Keywords: tendai; buddhism; spirituality; cake
Downloads: 625
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| Fireside Chat - Tamarack Garlow
An informal chat about Buddhism and life, the Christmas season, the six realms, fire and otherwise a folksy talk about things.
Keywords: buddhism; diamond path; six realms; fire; christmas; wbcr; attachment to views
Downloads: 20 |
| Avalokiteshvara, Deity of Compassion - Tamarack Garlow
Avalokiteshvara is the Buddhist Deity which represents the embodiment of compassion. He/she exists as a manifestation of of the compassionate aspect of our own consciousness. Like the other celestial figures the phrase "as above, so below" applies. We are an aspect of the Whole, so our compassionate nature is evident in the totality of all there is.
Keywords: Avalokiteshvara; buddhism; wbcr; tamarack garlow; diamond path; deity figures; compassion; amitabha
Downloads: 162 |
| Compassion - Enlightenment Through Others - Tamarack Garlow
How helping and being aware of others creates an improved world and a happier life.
Keywords: compassion; enlightenment; WBCR; tamarack garlow; buddhism; awareness
Downloads: 43 |
| The Diamond Path - Tamarack Garlow
A weekly program on WBCR-LP, 97.7 FM, Great Barrington, MA. Discussions of topical interest from the Buddhist perspective.
Keywords: tendai; buddhism; buddhist; wbcr-lp; radio; spirituality
Downloads: 1,358
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| The Diamond Path - Tamarack Garlow
Life situations discussed from a Buddhist perspective.
Keywords: Buddhism; discussion; tendai
Downloads: 560
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| The Diamond Path #005 - Tamarack Garlow
Weekly radio program heard on WBCR-LP, 97.7 FM, Great Barrington. Life situations discussed from a buddhist perspective.
Keywords: buddhism; tendai; radio; spirituality; religion; life; mindfullness
Downloads: 941
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| Diamond Path #009-Peace and Security - Tamarack Garlow
Life situations discussed from the Buddhist perspective. Sansho Tamarack Garlow, leader of Higashi Tendai Buddhist Sangha provides weekly commentary.
Keywords: buddhism; spirituality; wbcr-lp; religion; life
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| The Diamond Path - Tamarack Garlow
Life situations discussed from the Buddhist perspective.
Keywords: buddhism; spirituality; wbcr-lp; religion; life
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| Diamond Path #010--International Day of Peace - Tamarack Garlow
Life situations discussed from the Buddhist perspective. Sansho Tamarack Garlow, leader of Higashi Tendai Buddhist Sangha provides weekly commentary.
Keywords: buddhism; spirituality; wbcr-lp; religion; life; tendai; peace; international
Downloads: 652
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| Diamond Path #011--Belief, Intentions and the Body - Tamarack Garlow
Life Situations discussed from the Buddhist perspective.
Keywords: buddhism; spirituality; wbcr-lp; religion; life
Downloads: 735
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| Diamond Path #013-the Individual, Emptiness or Nonself - Tamarack Garlow
Life situations discussed from the Buddhist perspective. Sansho Tamarack Garlow, leader of Higashi Tendai Buddhist Sangha provides weekly commentary.
Keywords: buddhism; spirituality; wbcr-lp; religion; life; tendai
Downloads: 717
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| Diamond Path #014: Shomyo for Peace - Tamarack Garlow
Life situations discussed from the Buddhist perspective. Sansho Tamarack Garlow, leader of Higashi Tendai Buddhist Sangha provides commentary. Number 14 in the series is a very special presentation of Buddhist ritual chants and a Daiho-Hyaku-Komyo-Ku Ceremony. The presentation and ceremony were held at Simon's Rock College of Bard in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Keywords: buddhism; spirituality; wbcr-lp; religion; life; tendai; Shomyo; peace; simons rock
Downloads: 1,832
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| Diamond Path #015: Death - Tamarack Garlow
Life situations discussed from the Buddhist perspective. Sansho Tamarack Garlow, leader of Higashi Tendai Buddhist Sangha provides weekly commentary.
Keywords: buddhism; spirituality; wbcr-lp; religion; life; tendai; death
Downloads: 2,154
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| Diamond Path #016: United States Department of Peace - Tamarack Garlow
Life situations discussed from the Buddhist perspective. Sansho Tamarack Garlow, leader of Higashi Tendai Buddhist Sangha provides weekly commentary. This is number 16 in the series.
Keywords: buddhism; spirituality; wbcr-lp; religion; life; tendai; peace; peace alliance
Downloads: 738
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| Diamond Path #017: The Body - Tamarack Garlow
Life situations discussed from the Buddhist perspective. Sansho Tamarack Garlow, leader of Higashi Tendai Buddhist Sangha provides weekly commentary.
Keywords: buddhism; spirituality; wbcr-lp; religion; life; tendai; body
Downloads: 906
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| Diamond Path #018: Four Noble Truths - Tamarack Garlow
Life situations discussed from the Buddhist perspective. Sansho Tamarack Garlow, leader of Higashi Tendai Buddhist Sangha provides weekly commentary.
Keywords: buddhism; spirituality; wbcr-lp; religion; life; tendai
Downloads: 960
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| Diamond Path #019: Gratitude and Garbage - Tamarack Garlow
Life situations discussed from the Buddhist perspective. Sansho Tamarack Garlow, leader of Higashi Tendai Buddhist Sangha provides weekly commentary.
Keywords: Buddhism; gratitude; tendai; podcast; radio show; religion; spirituality
Downloads: 2,372
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| Diamond Path #020: Love and the Season - Tamarack Garlow
Life situations discussed from the Buddhist perspective. Sansho Tamarack Garlow, leader of Higashi Tendai Buddhist Sangha provides weekly commentary.
Keywords: buddhism; spirituality; wbcr-lp; religion; life; tendai
Downloads: 3,247
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| Diamond Path #022: Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" from a Buddhist Perspective - Tamarack Garlow
Life situations discussed from the Buddhist perspective. Sansho Tamarack Garlow, leader of Higashi Tendai Buddhist Sangha provides weekly commentary.
Keywords: buddhism; spirituality; wbcr-lp; religion; life; tendai; christmas
Downloads: 879
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| Diamond Path #023 - Tamarack Garlow
Life situations discussed from a Buddhist perspective.
Keywords: buddhism; spirituality; wbcr-lp; religion; life; tendai
Downloads: 732
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| Diamond Path #24: The Fund Drive - Tamarack Garlow
From a buddhist perspective
Keywords: buddhism; spirituality; wbcr-lp; religion; life; tendai
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| Diamond Path #025: Back to Basics - Tamarack Garlow
From a Buddhist perspective
Keywords: buddhism; spirituality; wbcr-lp; religion; life; tendai
Downloads: 1,382
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| Diamond Path #026: Ancestors - Tamarack Garlow
Life situations from a Buddhist perspective. Hosted by Sansho Tamarack Garlow.
Keywords: buddhism; religion; society; tendai; peace
Downloads: 1,765
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| The Diamond Path #2 - Tamarack Garlow
Discussions from the Buddhist Path
Keywords: buddhism; path; spirituality; radio; podcast
Downloads: 763
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| The Diamond Path - Tamarack Garlow
Weekly program heard on WBCR-LP in Great Barrington, MA. Life situations discussed from a Buddhist perspective.
Keywords: buddhism; spirituality; wbcr-lp; religion; life
Downloads: 928
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| The Diamond Path #007 - Tamarack Garlow
Life situations discussed from a Buddhist perspective. Aired weekly on WBCR-LP in Great Barrington, MA.
Keywords: buddhism; spirituality; religion; tendai; japan
Downloads: 1,138
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| Diamond Path #012--A Little Bit About Your Host - Tamarack Garlow
Life situations discussed from a Buddhist perspective.
Keywords: buddhism; spirituality; wbcr-lp; religion; life
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| Diamond Path #020 - Tamarack Garlow
Life situations discussed from the Buddhist perspective. Sansho Tamarack Garlow, leader of Higashi Tendai Buddhist Sangha provides weekly commentary.
Keywords: buddhism; spirituality; wbcr-lp; religion; life; tendai
Downloads: 2,272
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| Ego or the Self - Tamarack Garlow
A survey of what our ego is and how it affects our life.
Keywords: ego; self; diamond path; wbcr; tamarack garlow; buddhism; skandhas; interconnectedness
Downloads: 111
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| Ethics - Tamarack Garlow
Ethics as a central platform in Buddhist thought. Do we treat others and ourselves in a way that is conducive to harmony, or do we create cancers in ourselves and society by the proliferation of suffering?
Keywords: ethics; diamond path; wbcr; buddhism; tamarack garlow; suffering; 8 fold path; right speech; right action; right livlihood
Downloads: 34 |
| Four Divine Abodes - Tamarack Garlow
The four abodes ("houses") that we strive to live in; informing our view so we see the world as it is, not what we wish it to be. By dropping attachments and prejudices we can truly live in these abodes and benefit others and ourselves. They are the abodes of: Loving Kindness; Compassion; Sympathetic Joy and Equanimity.
Keywords: Four divine abodes; loving kindness; compassion; sympathetic joy; equanimity; WBCR; Tamarack Garlow; Buddhism; the Diamond Path; Tendai; Higashi Sangha
Downloads: 85 |
| Four Foundations of Mindfulness - Tamarack Garlow
Four meditations one uses to become aware of one's body and mind and ultimately how they relate to the truth.
Keywords: Four foundations of mindfulness; Buddhism; diamond path; WBCR; Tendai; Tamarack Garlow; meditation
Downloads: 152 |
| Opening Discussion of the Lankavatara Sutra - Tamarack Garlow
Introducing the flavor of the sutras by exploring the opening lines of the Lankavatara Sutra with commentary.
Keywords: lankavatara sutra; buddhism; chapter 1; diamond path; tamarack garlow; wbcr; sutra commentary
Downloads: 111 |
| Peace - Tamarack Garlow
Peace in the world starts with peace within. How do we do that? What is the key.
Keywords: peace; heatbeat of peace festival; diamond path; buddhism; tendai; attachments; ego
Downloads: 69 |
| Skillful Means - Upaya - Tamarack Garlow
How Buddha taught that we can act and speak to others using skillful means - regardless of their capacities, interests or abilities we can communicate and spread the truth of compassion by relating to the other's capacity to understand or feel. Skillful Means is relating to others on their level and in their "language" to facilitate and recognize connectedness and to foster the Dharma in everyday acts.
Keywords: Skillful means; upaya; Buddhism; Lotus Sutra; WBCR; Diamond Path; Tamarack Garlow
Downloads: 41 |
| Spirit and Connection - Tamarack Garlow
Spirit takes many forms as this discussion suggests. As we search for a suitable definition a synonym comes up. That synonym is "Connection". Join the contemplation on spirit and see what you think.
Keywords: spirit; connection; buddhism; diamond path; tamrack garlow; breath; christmas spirit; team spirit
Downloads: 25 |
| The 10 Oxherding Pictures - Tamarack Garlow
A series of illustrations from the 12th century and before about finding, taming and transcending the ox, (the mind). Extant in many forms the animal searched for can be a horse or in the case of the Tibet, elephants.A practitioner's illustrated guide to enlightenment.
Keywords: oxherding; diamond path; buddhism; enlightenment; reality; wbcr; tamarack garlow
Downloads: 94 |
| The Buddhist Path - Tamarack Garlow
Buddhism in a nutshell.
Keywords: buddhism; religions; varocana; god; attachments; path without goal; WBCR; fund drive
Downloads: 35 |
| The Five Hindrances to Practice - Tamarack Garlow
Life Through a Buddhist Perspective
Keywords: Buddhism; the diamond path; five hindrances; tamarack garlow
Downloads: 136 |
| The Heart Sutra - Tamarack Garlow
A reading and exploration of the most important sutra in Buddhism. This short sutra is chanted during the service of many mahayana schools and offers a somewhat poetic explanation of the concept of emptiness, or the state of the non-dual.
Keywords: non-dual; emptiness; heart sutra; tamarack garlow; wbcr; diamond path; five skandhas; tendai; buddhism; mahayana
Downloads: 156 |
| The Self, The Slippery Slope of Ego - Tamarack Garlow
The self is a construct of the ego mind. The forces that lead to awareness are based on our attachments, and as such are considered void of a true essence. Let's explore the self and see if anyone's home.
Keywords: self; ego; diamond path; tamarack garlow; wbcr; non-self; emptiness; 5 skandhas; attachment
Downloads: 38 |
| The Six Paramitas - Tamarack Garlow
The Six Paramitas, (perfections): Generosity, Morality, Patience, Vigor, Meditation and Wisdom, the skills a bodhisattva perfects on their journey.
Keywords: paramitas; Buddhism; perfections; diamond path; meditation; wisdom; bodhisattva
Downloads: 2,995 |
| The Six Realms of Existence, You Know - You and Me - Tamarack Garlow
A discussion of the types of worlds we cycle through, both through one birth to another and during the day by day of this very important lifetime.
Keywords: six realms; buddhism; diamond path; tamarack garlow; animal realm; hell realms; hungry ghost realm; diva realm; angry god realm; human realm; samsara
Downloads: 73 |
| Three Marks of Existence, Rebirth - Tamarack Garlow
A discussion of The Three Marks of Existence that Buddhist recognize. They are Impermanence, No Self and Life is Suffering or marked by Discontent. The second topic in this talk is some explanation of the concept of Rebirth.
Keywords: Three Marks of Existence; Buddhist; Impermanence; No Self. Life is Suffering; Rebirth; WBCR; Diamond Path; Tamarack Garlow
Downloads: 107 |
