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Podcast Episode 25: Meditation Styles, Part 2

Welcome back, this is Daily Buddhism audio show number twenty-five. I’m Brian Schell, your host for the show. You can find the text for everything in this show and all past episodes on our website at www.dailybuddhism.com.

You know, 25 episodes ago, I wasn’t sure if this thing was going to attract anyone’s attention. Half a year later, we have thousands of subscribers to the show and a great bunch of readers and listeners who don’t hesitate to support the show. Thanks everyone for following along for 25 great episodes! There’s plenty more to come, and I have a surprise or two in store for the coming weeks that I think you’ll like. Stay tuned!

This week we continued the series on Meditation, covering five different styles of meditation, the basic practices involved, and the differences between them. My descriptions have been pretty brief, so I am just going to assume that you have questions. Send in your questions on Buddhism to dailybuddhism@gmail.com or phone them in at 937-660-4949. You can also post your thoughts about anything we discuss on the website’s blog at www.dailybuddhism.com

Let’s get on with the show!

[Read the past five blog posts or emails for contents of the show]

This Week’s Links

Meditation Part 7: Conceptual Meditation
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/200

Meditation Part 6: Mantra Meditation
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/192

Meditation Part 5: Mindfulness Meditation
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/189

Meditation Part 4: Walking Meditation and Kinhin
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/183

Meditation Part 3: Empty Mind Meditation
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/182

Meditation Part 2: Breath Meditation and Insight Meditation
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/180

Meditation Part 1: Overview & Benefits
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/175

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Podcast Episode 24: Taking Refuge & Meditation

Welcome back, this is Daily Buddhism audio show number twenty-four. I’m Brian Schell, your host for the show. You can find the text for everything in this show and all past episodes on our website at www.dailybuddhism.com.

Keep your questions coming in! Send in your questions on Buddhism to dailybuddhism@gmail.com or phone them in at 937-660-4949. You can also post your thoughts about anything we discuss on the website’s blog at www.dailybuddhism.com

I did get another phoned-in message; this one had to do with the sound quality of the podcast itself. Here goes:

(insert clip)

Good suggestion, and one that is easily fixed! When I am finished recording a show, I play it back on the same computer I use for recording, and they usually sound fine to me. Since you let me know about the problem, I’ll set the volume on those a little lower from now on. If you have any other comments or suggestions, let me know! I think the sound quality has increased tremendously since the first episode, but I’ll be the first to admit there is still plenty of room for improvement. Last week I had to record the entire show twice because Garageband crashed while it was saving the final file the first time. I enjoy doing the show, but doing it twice is no fun at all!

We had an interesting assortment of topics this week, so lets get on with the show!

[read the past five blog posts or emails for contents of the show]
This Week’s Links

Dhammapada Chapter 8
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/174

Koan: The Muddy Road
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/173

Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/172

Meditation Part 1: Overview & Benefits
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/175

Meditation Part 2: Breath Meditation and Insight Meditation
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/180

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Podcast Episode 23: Buddhist Service and Karma Control

Welcome back, this is Daily Buddhism audio show number twenty-three. I’m Brian Schell, your host for the show. You can find the text for everything in this show and all past episodes on our website at www.dailybuddhism.com.

Many of this week’s topics sparked some interesting responses which are posted as comments on the website. Remember, there is more to read at the website than just reposts of the daily emails, you can find many insightful comments by readers there as well.

Keep your questions coming in! Send in your questions on Buddhism to dailybuddhism@gmail.com or phone them in at 937-660-4949. There’s no question too small or too basic; sometimes the deepest thought goes into the little stuff. You can also post your thoughts about anything we discuss on the website’s blog at www.dailybuddhism.com

We had an interesting assortment of topics this week, so lets get on with the show!

This Week’s Links

Tao Announcement
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/167

Controlling Karma
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/165

Book: Buddhist Scriptures, by Edward Conze, Ed.
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/166

Dhammapada Chapter 7: The Venerable Arhat
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/170

Koan: A Buddha
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/169

Buddhist Service Obligations?
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/168
Many Comments and input on the topic:
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/168#comments

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Podcast Episode 22: Zen in the Dark, Hurricane Edition

Welcome back, this is Daily Buddhism audio show number twenty-two. I’m Brian Schell, your host for the show. You can find the text for everything in this show and all past episodes on our website at www.dailybuddhism.com . If you have questions or comments, you can post them on the website’s blog or email me directly at dailybuddhism@gmail.com

I did get one call on the dial-in voicemail line this week, but it was too late to include in this episode, so I guarantee we’ll cover that one, and hopefully some new ones next time. Call in with your questions or comments at 937-660-4949 or send in your emails as usual.

Not much happened this week since I was out of electricity and the Internet until late Wednesday. Blame Hurricane Ike.

This Week’s Posts and Links

Zen in the Dark
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/161

Koan: The Happy Chinaman
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/162

Dhammapada Chapter 6: The Wise Man
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/163

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Podcast Episode 21: Christians, Gurus, Fools, and Business
Welcome back, this is Daily Buddhism audio show number twenty-one. I’m Brian Schell, your host for the show. You can find the text for everything in this show and all past episodes on our website at www.dailybuddhism.com . If you have questions or comments, you can post them on the website’s blog or email me directly at dailybuddhism@gmail.com

Many of this week’s topics sparked some interesting responses which are posted as comments on the website. Remember, there is more to read at the website than just reposts of the daily emails, you can find many insightful comments by readers there as well.

There doesn’t seem to be a great deal of eagerness phoning in your questions. I had hoped to be able to have at least a couple of listener messages to play for you this week, but it seems that no one wants to be the guinea pig. Don’t be afraid, somebody has to go first; call in at 937-660-4949

{Audio} Phone Dialing … Crickets Chirping

We had an unusual assortment of material this week, so lets get on with the show!

This Week’s Links

Black & White Questions, Grey Answers
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/154

Dhammapada Chapter 5: The Fool
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/159

Koan: The Story of Shunkai
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/158

Buddhist Business Books?
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/157

Christian Bashing
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/156

Copyrights, Privacy, Etc.
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/155

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Podcast Episode 20: Phone-Ins, Performance Reviews, and a Dramatic Death

And welcome back! This is Episode 20 of the Daily Buddhism, and I am your host, Brian Schell. We had a short week this time because of the holiday, so we only had four topics this week.

The big announcement of the week was that we do now have the call-in number. Write this down! You can call 24 hours a day with your questions or topic ideas, your comments and suggestions, or anything else that you think might interest listeners here. The number is 937-660-4949 – Call in and let me know what you think on any topic. And of course you can always send me email at dailybuddhism@gmail.com

Stop in at the website, http://www.dailybuddhism.com. Comment on any topic, or sign up for the daily mailing list while you’re there. Donating to the site is easy and helps keep things running here better and better.

If you’d like to help out without sending money, you can look up the Daily Buddhism in the podcast section of the iTunes Store and leave a review for the show there. I think I only have six reviews up there now, and I know I wrote one of them myself, so that doesn’t really count. As far as my other podcasts, the last I checked, no one had ever written a review for the Tao of the Day site, so if you listen to that one and like it, write a review on that one too. And someone just left an amazing review for Arcane Tales on iTunes; a review like that makes doing it all extra rewarding for me. The other sites and shows are fun to do, but Daily Buddhism is my flagship show, and that’s were the action really is. Keep your emails and questions coming in, I love doing this!

This week’s links:

Call In Now
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/150
937-660-4949

The Last Poem of Hoshin
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/145

The Karma of Performance Reviews
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/151

Dhammapada Chapter 4: Flowers
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/152

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Podcast Episode 19: Christian Karma and Buddhist Dogfood

And welcome back! This is Episode 19 of the Daily Buddhism, and I am your host, Brian Schell. I don’t have too much in the way of announcements this week, but I do want to point out a few quick things:

• Monday is a holiday and I’ll be out of town, so there won’t be a daily email on Monday.

• Not much has changed as far as donations are concerned since last week; but I’m not going to keep harping on it.

• This is already Episode 19. Wow; it seems like we’ve only just started! The good news is that I have material to continue for pretty much forever. The bad news is that all the audio shows cannot stay available online forever. Between web hosting space, and more importantly, bandwidth issues, I am going to start taking down some of the oldest shows starting next week. I hope to be able to leave the past 15 weeks of audio shows online, so each week as I add a new one, I’ll take off one from way back.

My recommendation for now is that if you don’t already have all the back episodes of the show, that you should find the ones you don’t already have and download them now while they’re still here. Remember, we started out with an episode ‚Äúzero‚Äù for an introductory show. Hmm. I guess that actually makes this the 20th episode.

You can find them all here (this week anyway):
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/category/podcasts

This week’s links:

Christian Karma?
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/133

Intoxication: The Last Word (For now)
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/139

Buddhist Jargon and Terminology
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/140

Koan: The Moon Cannot Be Stolen
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/142

Buddhist Dog Food
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/141

Dhammapada Chapter 3: Thought
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/143

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Welcome back! This is Episode 18 of the Daily Buddhism, and I’m your host, Brian Schell.

And now, on with the show!

[Last Week’s messages and comments and articles here]

Links from the show:

Compassion:
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/127

Faith or Not?
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/128

The Pesky Fifth Precept:
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/129

Intoxicant Debate was in the comments section of:
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/129
and
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/99
(My defense wasn’t as good as I would have liked, help me out!)

Koan: Great Waves
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/130

Dhammapada Chapter 2: On Earnestness
http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/131

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Podcast Episode 17

Welcome back, This is episode 17 of the Daily Buddhism, and I’m your host, Brian Schell. Before we get started recapping the week’s material, I’ve got a couple of quick announcements.

A few weeks back, I announced that I had audio recordings of the entire Tao te ching available for purchase on the Taooftheday.com website, and starting today, I now have a 2 CD set of the Dhammapada available on the Daily Buddhism site, once again recorded by yours truly. It’s available directly from the website and there’s a link over on the left hand side of the screen, under the heading ‚ÄúPages‚Äù I’ll also include a link in the show notes. Starting this week, we’ll be taking a look at the Dhammapada, in my opinion the single most important ancient text in Buddhism. We’ll talk a little bit more about the Dhammapada later in this episode.

And now it’s time for me to make another call for donations. Call it a “pledge drive” if you prefer. Although I’ve gotten a few donations, I can’t say that I am overwhelmed. I absolutely want to thank the people who have sent in donations. I’m still trying to pay off the microphone I bought way back around episode 7, and I had also hoped to get a voice mail number like some other podcasts have, but I don’t see that happening without additional support. Sooner or later, I’ll need to pay for web hosting for another year. The link to donate is there on the site, it’s easy to find. I always enjoy your emails and letters of encouragement, but you know‚ c’mon guys, out of literally thousands of listeners, this begging shouldn’t be needed every week. I’ve got a specific target goal that I need to reach, and then I can stop pestering, I mean begging, every week.

OK, and now on with the show!

[Read the five previous daily emails, or the blog posts or listen to the podcast for the rest]

Show Links for this week:

Buddhist Weddings: http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/120

Buddhism and Family Support: http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/121

The Accidental Buddhist: http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/122
Buy From Amazon: http://www.dailybuddhism.com/accidentalbuddhism

Koan: No Loving Kindness: http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/123

The Dhammapada Chapter 1 Text: http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/125
Order the Full Dhammapada on CD: http://www.dailybuddhism.com/the-dhammapada-on-cd

Podcast Episode 16