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Waking Up: Jerry Colonna + Dan HarrisWhat happens when leaders who hold structural power fail to develop their inner power and let bad psychological habits run amok?
Mindfulness Meditation: Empowerment with Lama Aria DrolmaTheme: EmpowermentPodcastsMindfulness Meditation
Joy, Rigor, and the Power of Wise MasculinityHow can we individually and collectively cultivate vibrant, powerful masculine energy that is free from aggression and domination?
Mindfulness Meditation: Empowerment with Lama Aria DrolmaTheme: EmpowermentPodcastsMindfulness Meditation
Pleasure, Power, and Sexual LiberationA conversation on how we can use this cultural moment as an opportunity to liberate our collective conditioning around power, pleasure, gender, sexuality, and consent.InterviewsActivismBuddhist Perspectives
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Mindfulness Meditation: Empowerment with Sharon SalzbergTheme: EmpowermentPodcastsMindfulness Meditation
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Pleasure, Power, and Sexual LiberationWhat actions can we take to heal a society reeling from the abuse of power in the realms of gender and sexuality?
Mindfulness Meditation: Compassion with Khangser RinpocheTheme: CompassionPodcastsMindfulness Meditation
The Healing Power of Telling Your StoryWhat if your voice is the medicine that the world desperately needs?
Sharon Salzberg + Serene Jones + Lydia MasonA panel discussion on the power of spiritually-inspired activism.
Mindfulness Meditation: Compassion with Sharon SalzbergTheme: CompassionPodcastsMindfulness Meditation
The Buddhist Teachings inside Russian DollHow the cycle of death and rebirth plays out in the television seriesPop CultureBuddhism
Birthing Creativity and the Power of the FeminineLearn what the power of the feminine can teach people of all genders about how to nurture, and be nurtured by, the creative process.
The Power and Purpose of Human Intention in BuddhismGood intentions offer the possibility of liberation in BuddhismBuddhism
Mindfulness Meditation: Compassion with Lama Aria DrolmaTheme: CompassionPodcastsMindfulness Meditation
Candy Chang + James A. Reeves + Dr. Tracy Dennis-TiwaryYou live inside your head every day, but do you understand how it works?
Female Power in the HimalayasGoddesses, bodhisattvas, and dakinis are prominent in Hindu and Buddhist artBuddhismHinduismFemale Power
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