Fierce compassion and discerning wisdom are necessary for cutting through all forms of doubt that impede our capacity to be a source of upliftment and awakening for ourselves and others. This talk is a follow-up to the talk I gave on Fearlessness. Enjoy!
Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
Tags: Buddhist psychology, Buddhist teachings, Compassion, discerning wisdom, doubt, fierce compassion, mindfulness, Wisdom
Listen to the second of two talks I delivered at Marin Sangha in May 2016 on Delusion and Non-delusion. This second talk covers the Buddhist psychological description of how non-delusion manifests in human perception and practical steps for cultivating non-delusion in daily life.
Categories: Religion & Spirituality
Tags: Awakening, Buddhist philosophy, Buddhist psychology, effortless mindfulness, liberation from suffering, mindfulness, mindfulness psychotherapy, non-delusion
A dharma talk given by Lisa Dale Miller, MFT, at the Marin Sangha on September 18, 2011 celebrating the International Day of Peace. The talk reflects on how to cultivate outer peace, inner peace, and ultimate peace. For more information: www.lisadalemiller.com/mbpsych.htm
Categories: Religion & Spirituality
Tags: buddhism, Buddhist psychology, Buddhist teachings, Compassion, peace
The first path factor of the Buddha’s Eightfold Noble Path is right view, also known as wise understanding. Though right view is the first of the Eightfold path factors, it represents the fruition of the succeeding seven path factors. Right view and right intention (the second path factor) together encompass supreme training in wisdom; a training designed to awaken the faculty of penetrative understanding—that which knows things as they truly are. The Buddha defined right view as understanding dukkha—the inherent unsatisfactoriness of all experience—its origin, cessation and the path leading to its cessation. He also defined right view as wisely comprehending Dependent Origination—the Buddha’s topology of mind and the cognitive-affective perceptual mechanisms that cause us to misapprehend self and world as separate, autonomous and permanent. The Buddha taught that wrong view is the greatest source of unwholesome mind states and by extension, unwholesome decisions and behaviors. The fruition of right view is a heart-mind liberated from avidyā, the delusion of suffering.
Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
Tags: Awakening, buddhism, Buddhist psychology, Buddhist teachings, Eightfold path, liberation from suffering, mindfulness, suffering
This dharma talk was delivered at Marin Sangha on May 31, 2015. I was asked to talk about the Buddhist psychology of addiction. The talk covers quite a bit of ground including childhood trauma and its physiological and psychological role in teen/adult addiction. The talk also has instructions for landing in the aliveness of physicality as it is.
Categories: Religion & Spirituality
Tags: addiction treatment, Buddhist psychology, effortless mindfulness, mindfulness, mindfulness psychotherapy, somatic psychotherapy, trauma
Listen to two talks I delivered at Marin Sangha on non-attachment—certainly the most misunderstood and maligned Buddhist ideal. This first talk deconstructs the term into its various meanings and explores the philosophical implications of non-attachment and identity clinging through the Buddha’s teachings from the Pāli Canon and those of several modern-day Buddhist teachers.
Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
Tags: Buddhist psychology, Buddhist teachings, cessation of suffering, dharma, mindfulness, mindfulness psychotherapy, suffering
The first of two dharma talks given by Lisa Dale Miller, LMFT, LPCC, SEP at the Marin Sangha on November 10 and 17, 2013. This first talk covers the difference between self and identity, early Buddhist ideas about “becoming” and “taking birth”, and modern perspectives on person identity.
Categories: Religion & Spirituality
Tags: Buddhist psychology, Buddhist teachings, mindfulness, Psychology
Listen to a dharma talk I gave at Marin Sangha on March 12, 2017. This talk focused on the Buddhist teachings on intrepidity and fearlessness. How to cultivate strength of mind in the face of danger and difficult conditions.
Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
Tags: Buddhist psychology, Buddhist teachings, fearlessness, inner strength, mindfulness, non-suffering, Resistance, social justice, societal change