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The CyberSangha Podcast
Realizing Your Full Potential: Ripening the Conditions of the Body
Episode 33, Series 2: "Bring Body, Speech & Mind to Life” Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche “Body” refers here not only to our physical body and the tangible world around us, but also to our individual sense of identity as a human being. The teachings, discussions, and practices explored during the Month of the Body help us to connect to the door of the body, clearing obstacles to health and well-being through movement and stillness. Resting our awareness in the stillness of the body opens the door to the clear, open, unchanging experience of our true nature and awakens clear...
2025-07-23
51 min
The CyberSangha Podcast
Turning to the Present Moment: How Mindfulness Can Loosen an Inflexible Mindset
Episode 32, Series 2: "Bring Body, Speech & Mind to Life” Featuring: Wendy Hasenkamp and Adam Hanley, Geshe YongDong, and Alejandro Chaoul-Reich. As we make our way through life, each of us forms a unique perspective of the world and of our place in it. Having a simplified outlook tends to make our day go more smoothly and efficiently — until the world inevitably shifts around us, and our predictable responses no longer serve us. Research suggests that being attuned to the present moment can help us respond more accurately and fluidly to the challenges we face. Our panelists enga...
2025-07-16
1h 09
The CyberSangha Podcast
Realizing Your Full Potential: Clearing Obstacles of the Mind
Episode 31, Series 2: "Bring Body, Speech & Mind to Life” Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Mind refers to our disturbing emotions and other distracted movements of the mind, as well as to the vast, open nature of mind — the source of all positive qualities — and the capacity to distinguish the difference. As we deepen our familiarity with resting in a state of spacious awareness, the obstacles and obscurations of our habitual patterns naturally dissolve into the openness of our true nature and our positive qualities spontaneously arise from this source to benefit others. In advance of his te...
2025-07-09
40 min
The CyberSangha Podcast
As We Live & Breathe: The Breath as Active Ingredient in Yoga Therapy
Episode 30, Series 2: "Bring Body, Speech & Mind to Life” Featuring: Laura Schmalzl, Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal, and Alejandro Chaoul-Reich About one in five U.S. adults practices some form of yoga. An ancient Indian practice with asanas (body postures) and pranayama (breathing practices), yoga is well known for its many health benefits. Just how do yoga-based practices help us to think more clearly, balance our emotions, and improve our bodily awareness? Can we view the breath as one of yoga’s active ingredients? Invited presenters draw on their clinical and academic expertise and their ex...
2025-07-02
1h 07
The CyberSangha Podcast
Realizing Your Full Potential: Clearing Obstacles to Positive Speech
Episode 29, Series 2: "Bring Body, Speech & Mind to Life” Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Speech refers not only to the words we speak, but also to the energy carried by our voice and our breath. The teachings, discussions, and practices of this month explore using speech, mantra, other forms of sound, and/or breathing practices to support us to connect with the pure, unceasing awareness of our true nature. Through allowing our voice to rest in silence, we draw attention to inner silence and continue to release effort that separates us from being fully present. A doorway to...
2025-06-25
55 min
The CyberSangha Podcast
Realizing Your Full Potential: Clearing Obstacles to Positive Action
Episode 28, Series 2: "Bring Body, Speech & Mind to Life” Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche “Body” refers here not only to our physical body and the tangible world around us, but also to our individual sense of identity as a human being. The teachings, discussions, and practices explored during the Month of the Body help us to connect to the door of the body, clearing obstacles to health and well-being through movement and stillness. Resting our awareness in the stillness of the body opens the door to the clear, open, unchanging experience of our true nature and awakens clear...
2025-06-18
56 min
The CyberSangha Podcast
Can Virtual Reality Support Your Meditation Practice?
Episode 27, Series 2: "Bring Body, Speech & Mind to Life.” Featuring: Sid Desai, Dr. Linda Carlson, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and Dr. Alejandro Chaoul-Reich As the digital technology of virtual reality (VR) becomes more available, carefully designed VR programs have the potential to change states of mind and attitude. The immersive nature of VR may be one of the solutions to support people in their meditation and mindfulness practices. It may help users to focus, or shift their attention, but there has been little research in the use of virtual reality as a therapeutic tool. Dr. Carlson and Si...
2025-06-11
1h 06
The CyberSangha Podcast
Realizing the Power of Boundless Creativity
Episode 26, Series 2: "Bring Body, Speech & Mind to Life.” Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Our true nature is pure, spacious awareness. The more familiar we are with this spaciousness of mind, the closer we are to the source of spontaneous creativity. In a live internet broadcast, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche teaches and guides a meditation that helps us to rest in the vast openness within, let go of any negative sense of identity that limits our true potential, and realize our innate power to benefit ourselves and our world through boundless creativity.
2025-06-03
54 min
The CyberSangha Podcast
Biocognition and Breath: Cultivating Health and Longevity
Episode 25, Series 2: "Bring Body, Speech & Mind to Life.” Featuring: Mario Martinez, Willa Blythe Baker, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, and Alejandro Chaoul-Reich Do cultural beliefs affect how your body manifests? Do some subconscious cultural mindsets actually contribute to addiction, obesity, and poor health, even more so than genetics? In mindful breath practice we experience, and science documents, healthy changes in mind and body. Supported by breath, we can cultivate a sense of joy and recognize our inner connectedness. We know this sense of belonging leads to longer life. What other factors can unlock the biocognitive(mind/body/cul...
2025-05-28
1h 09
The CyberSangha Podcast
Meet the Director of “Broken Wings”
Episode 24, Series 2: "Bring Body, Speech & Mind to Life.” Featuring: film director Shenpenn Khymsar, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, and host Jhama Lhamo. Meet Shenpenn Khymsar, director of Broken Wings, the first Bollywood feature film directed by a Tibetan and the first feature to come out of Darjeeling in the Indian/International cinema world. Inspired by true events, it’s a tragic love story set in the post-1986 Gorkhaland agitation in Darjeeling, India. The film can be viewed in theaters throughout India (and later Nepal) beginning Friday, April 29, 2022; and will be released on streaming platforms by fall 2022. Produced by Mo...
2025-05-21
51 min
The CyberSangha Podcast
Realizing the Power of Your True Voice
Episode 23, Series 2: "Bring Body, Speech & Mind to Life.” Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Resting our voice in silence is a doorway to deep inner peace. It allows the light of pure awareness to dawn in us, and helps us to realize our true voice. In a live internet broadcast, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche teaches and guides a meditation that helps us to connect with that true voice and to realize its power to help us communicate more clearly and effectively.
2025-05-14
57 min
The CyberSangha Podcast
Embodied Emotions: New Pathways to Freedom
Episode 22, Series 2: "Bring Body, Speech & Mind to Life.” Featuring: Eve Ekman, Bessel van der Kolk, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal, and host Alejandro Chaoul-Reich Presenters and hosts delve into trauma and emotions and how the body keeps score by affecting the very perception through which an individual meets life. The panel presented differing understandings on how trauma can be healed and why. Eve Ekman draws from her work on a Dalai Lama-supported project to increase emotion awareness through an online Atlas of Emotions and her recent research on the meditation practice of working with difficult emot...
2025-05-07
1h 09
The CyberSangha Podcast
Embracing the Suffering Me, Cultivating the Freedom of Being No One
Episode 21, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion" Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche In a live online teaching and guided meditation, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides us in meeting our “pain identity” — the mistaken sense of self who continually suffers — with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways to realizing the liberating truth of no-self. The broadcast marks the start of Month 12 in Rinpoche’s yearlong program, “Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion.” Free and open to all!
2025-04-30
1h 03
The CyberSangha Podcast
Embracing Apathy, Cultivating Joyful Engagement
Episode 20, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion" Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche In a live online teaching, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides us in meeting any sense of apathy we may be experiencing with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways to fuller, more joyful engagement in life. The broadcast marks the start of Month 11 in Rinpoche’s yearlong program, “Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion.” Free and open to all! In his teaching, Rinpoche emphasizes the importance of facing challenges, cultivating joyful engagement, and paying attention to our emotions. He also touches on our potent...
2025-04-23
54 min
The CyberSangha Podcast
Awareness as Medicine: The Best Cure for Burnout Is Here, Within Us
Episode 19, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion" Featuring: Nikki Mirghafori, Paul Condon, and Alejandro Chaoul-Reich. It’s one thing to be fatigued. It’s another to be exhausted. When we put too much effort over time into thinking, speaking, or doing, at some point we can cross the line into irritability, extreme fatigue, even burnout. We may lose the ability to concentrate or remember, and our motivation for engaging in what we love most. Excessive fatigue can lead to headaches, digestive problems, or illness from a weakened immune system. How much effort is too much? Befo...
2025-04-16
1h 07
The CyberSangha Podcast
Embracing Exhaustion, Cultivating Resting with Awareness
Episode 18, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion" Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche In a live online teaching, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides us in meeting any sense of exhaustion or burnout we may be experiencing with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways to abiding deeply and restfully in open awareness. The broadcast marks the start of Month 10 in Rinpoche’s yearlong program, “Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion.” Free and open to all! In advance of the broadcast Rinpoche encourages creating a bit of space for meditation in your house — in a quiet, peaceful location...
2025-04-09
45 min
The CyberSangha Podcast
Embracing Pride, Cultivating Peace
Episode 17, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion" Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche In a live online teaching, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides us in meeting any pride we may be experiencing with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways to our inherently peaceful nature. The broadcast marks the start of Month 9 in Rinpoche’s yearlong program, “Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion.” Free and open to all! In advance of the broadcast Rinpoche encourages creating a bit of space for meditation in your house — in a quiet, peaceful location where you can feel some sense of warmt...
2025-04-02
37 min
The CyberSangha Podcast
Spaciously Being Human: Transforming Jealousy into Openness
Episode 16, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion" Featuring: Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal, and Alejandro Chaoul-Reich, Ph.D. Jealousy is said to be one of the fundamental afflictions of human beings according to the Tibetan Bön and Buddhist traditions. Constantly comparing ourselves to others and wanting what others have leaves us perpetually dissatisfied, competitive, stressed, and exhausted. How can we acknowledge and accommodate our own jealousy such that it can shift or transform on its own? Are there positive ways in which we can channel the energy of jealousy into being of b...
2025-03-26
55 min
The CyberSangha Podcast
Embracing Jealousy, Cultivating Openness
Episode 15, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion" Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche You might compare yourself with another or feel that another’s success reveals your own failure. You might feel bitter or unpleasantly competitive. Perhaps you find yourself thinking, “How come they got it and I didn’t?” In a live online teaching, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides us in meeting any jealousy we are experiencing in our body, speech, and mind with openness and warmth, clearing the pathways to our inherently spacious nature. The broadcast marks the start of Month 8 in Rinpoche’s yearlong program, “Embracing Li...
2025-03-19
1h 01
The CyberSangha Podcast
Embracing Fear, Cultivating Confidence
Episode 14, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion" Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche When you are caught in fear, you can feel small, uncertain, unsafe, ungrounded. You might be afraid of what will happen. You lack trust. You might find yourself thinking, “I will never be able to do that.” In a live online teaching, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides us in meeting any fear we are experiencing in our body, speech, and mind with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways of confidence that are inherent to our true nature. The broadcast marks the start of Mont...
2025-03-12
31 min
The CyberSangha Podcast
Choosing Wisdom: Discovering Joy in Difficult Truths
Episode 13, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion" Featuring: Emily McRae, Ph.D.; Margaret Plews-Ogan, M.D.; Geshe Tenzin Wangyal; and Alejandro Chaoul-Reich, Ph.D. “Truth is always joyful, though the journey to the truth may be painful,” writes Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. Why do some people thrive when facing adversity while others struggle immensely? How can we use difficult challenges as a catalyst for positive transformation? This lively dialogue will explore the notions of wisdom and ignorance from the perspective of Tibetan Buddhist and Bön spirituality, alongside Western philosophical, physiological, psychological systems, looking at what these...
2025-03-06
1h 00
The CyberSangha Podcast
Embracing Ignorance, Cultivating Wisdom
Episode 12, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion" Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche When caught in ignorance you can feel deeply disconnected, unsure, uncertain, lost. You may feel you are not fully present, not at home in yourself. You doubt yourself and others and feel ill at ease. In a live online teaching, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides us in meeting any ignorance we are experiencing in our body, speech, and mind with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways of wisdom that are inherent to our true nature. The broadcast marks the start of Month 6 in...
2025-02-26
34 min
The CyberSangha Podcast
Fierce Love: Honoring and Transforming Anger
Episode 11, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion" Featuring: Robert Thurman, Ph.D.; Barbara Fredrickson, Ph.D.; Geshe Tenzin Wangyal; and Alejandro Chaoul-Reich, Ph.D. How do we balance the importance of honoring anger when it arises and not feeding it in a way that causes harm? Is it possible to separate out the wisdom aspects of anger, such as boundary-setting and clear-seeing, from its destructive side? What does it mean to transform anger into love, on a practical level? This lively dialogue will explore working with the energy of anger from the perspective of Tibetan...
2025-02-18
1h 12
The CyberSangha Podcast
Profiles in Generosity: Sharing Loving-Kindness through Organ Donation
Episode 10, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion" Featuring: Marina and Bob Felix, Larissa Scherbatow, Marion Chaygneaud-Dupuy, Erick Rinner, and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. Our panelists share with host Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche two very personal stories of organ donation as an expression of selfless love and generosity. Last February Marion Chaygneaud-Dupuy of Lhasa, China, offered one of her kidneys to her partner, Erick Rinner. Larissa Scherbatow of North Carolina donated a kidney in 2013 to her daughter, Marina Felix. Marina’s husband, Bob, joins us in this inspiring discussion of uncertainty, challenge, giving, and acceptance. This co...
2025-02-12
44 min
The CyberSangha Podcast
Embracing Anger, Cultivating Love
Episode 9, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion" Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Join Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche for a live online teaching as we begin Month 5 of his yearlong program, “Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion.” Free and open to all! Our focus this month is on meeting any anger we may experience in our body, speech, and mind with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways of loving-kindness that are inherent to us. In advance of the broadcast Rinpoche encourages creating a bit of space for meditation in your house — in a quiet, peaceful locati...
2025-02-05
44 min
The CyberSangha Podcast
The Spirit of Generosity: To Give from the Heart, First Learn to Let Go
Episode 8, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion" Featuring: Roshi Joan Halifax, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, and Alejandro Chaoul-Reich To be truly generous of spirit, we must loosen our attachments — not only to what we are giving, but also to our expectations for an outcome. What is the true meaning of generosity? How can we know if it’s spontaneous or effortful? What are the benefits of giving from the heart? Are there healthier forms of attachment or detachment? Our esteemed panelists discuss the how’s and why’s of living a compassionate, generous life, through to life’s e...
2025-01-29
52 min
The CyberSangha Podcast
Embracing Attachment, Cultivating Generosity
Episode 7, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion" Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Join Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche for a live online teaching as we begin Month 4 of his yearlong program, “Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion.” Free and open to all! Our focus this month is on meeting any sense of attachment we may experience in our body, speech, and mind with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways of generosity that are inherent to us. In advance of the broadcast Rinpoche encourages creating a bit of space for meditation in your house — in a quiet...
2025-01-22
44 min
The CyberSangha Podcast
Spacious Embrace: When Feeling Lonely, Find the Friend Within
Episode 6, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion" Featuring: Sharon Salzberg, Emily Lindsay, Ph.D.; Geshe Tenzin Wangyal; and host Alejandro Chaoul-Reich, Ph.D. No matter how many friends we have on social media or how many people we are surrounded by, loneliness can be a constant companion. We may be yearning for a sense of support or connection, or feeling that we don’t quite fit in. We search for friendship, community, and intimacy, but what are we really seeking? Can meditation help us to feel more fulfilled and connected, even when we’re alone? Our...
2025-01-15
1h 02
The CyberSangha Podcast
Embracing Loneliness, Cultivating Connection
Episode 5, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion" Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Join Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche for a live online teaching as we begin Month 3 of his new yearlong program, “Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion.” Free and open to all! Our focus this month is on meeting any loneliness we may experience in our body, speech, and mind with openness and warmth, clearing and opening a deeper, more fulfilling sense of connection to ourselves and others. In advance of the broadcast Rinpoche encourages creating a bit of space for meditation in your house — in a quie...
2025-01-08
46 min
The CyberSangha Podcast
Breaking the Cycle of Anxiety: Finding Calm Within the Storm
Episode 4, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion" Featuring: psychologist Ann Friedman, Ph.D.; researcher and thought leader Jud Brewer, M.D., Ph.D.; Tibetan meditation master Geshe Tenzin Wangyal; and host Alejandro Chaoul-Reich, Ph.D. We welcome you to join us online as experts from the realms of science and spirituality share their best practices for living with and healing from anxiety. Nearly everyone is familiar with the sense of tension, worry, and insecurity that anxiety brings. When severe, anxiety can limit our daily activities. What is its ultimate source? Can we prevent or l...
2025-01-01
1h 03
The CyberSangha Podcast
Embracing Anxiety, Cultivating Calmness
Episode 3, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion" Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Our focus this month is on meeting any anxiety we may experience in our body, speech, and mind with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways of calmness that are inherent to us. This content is for informational purposes only. Please consult medical professionals for physical or mental health concerns. Use headphones and avoid meditating while driving or operating machinery. Learn more at CyberSangha.net or on the CyberSangha community app.
2024-12-25
43 min
The CyberSangha Podcast
Life Beyond Depression: Finding Healing & Wholeness Through Meditation
Episode 2, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion" Featuring: Norman Farb, Ph.D., Juanita Campbell Rasmus, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal, and host Alejandro Chaoul-Reich, Ph.D. Depression can drain the color from life, often returning even after symptoms subside. In this episode, our expert panel explores: How to recognize depression The potential of meditation in easing symptoms Strategies for avoiding relapse during recovery Insights from scientific research, spirituality, and personal experience Join us for this live online conversation as we navigate the journey beyond depression. This content is for informational purposes only. Please...
2024-12-01
1h 20
The CyberSangha Podcast
Embracing Depression, Cultivating Joy
Episode 1, Series 1: "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion" Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche In this inaugural episode of the CyberSangha Podcast, join us for a transformative teaching, originally broadcast on March 3, 2023, as we begin our journey of "Embracing Life with Wisdom & Compassion." With the start of the Tibetan New Year, the focus of the month was on meeting any depression we may experience in our body, speech, and mind with openness and warmth, clearing and opening the pathways of joy that are inherent to us. Recordings of simultaneous interpretation are available in Spanish and F...
2024-11-24
1h 07
Bhumi
Del parloteo al silencio
¡Cómo nos cuesta el silencio! El silencio es como un lienzo en blanco en donde suena el ruido que llevamos dentro. Hoy especialmente quiero proponerte que tomes la píldora del silencio cuando sientas que tu parloteo está desatado y sigues machucando las palabras para avivar el fuego de tu malestar. Cállate aunque tengas razón. Cállate por un ratico y respira. Cállate para percibir el silencio qué hay entre las grietas del sonido. Existe una práctica muy útil que se relaciona con el silencio y sus bondades. En el Budismo Bön se reco...
2021-04-05
10 min