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The Innercraft PodcastCultivating Loving-Kindness – with Venerable Sangye Khadro | Innercraft E13In this episode, Venerable Sangye Khadro, author of How to Meditate: A Practical Guide, and Buddhist nun, talks about practical ways to cultivate kindness towards ourselves and others in our daily lives.2023-10-061h 05The Innercraft PodcastMeditation in The Tibetan Buddhist Tradition – Venerable Sangye Khadro | Innercraft E12In this episode, Venerable Sangye Khadro, author of How to Meditate: A Practical Guide, and Buddhist nun offers an introduction to the different types of meditation taught and practiced in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. This is a great talk particularly for beginners and those new to meditation practice. 2023-10-0643 minThe Innercraft PodcastBreath Counting Meditation misconceptions & relation to Koan Practice – Meido Moore RoshiIn this talk, Meido Roshi discusses common misconceptions about Susokukan, or breath counting meditation in the Zen Buddhist tradition. He also describes what Koan and Wato practice is, and how it relates to Susokukan.2022-12-201h 13
Guru Viking PodcastSteve James Interviewed on the 'Innercraft' PodcastI was recently interviewed by Andres Valdivieso for his 'Innercraft' podcast.
Topics include:
0:00 – Episode Intro
2:10 – The Guru Viking Podcast: origins and vision going forward
4:45 – Steve’s learnings from conducting The Guru Viking Podcast
13:30 – Steve’s current main priorities, activities and hobbies
24:51 – The intersection of music and meditation
37:00 – Steve’s background and how he got started in contemplative practices
51:50 – Steve’s goals and intentions regarding meditation/spirituality
58:44 – How formal sitting meditation impacts Steve’s life experience
01:07:55 – Meditation in daily activity
01:17:35 – Steve’s current daily meditation practice
01:23:29 – Relationship with daily activities that can be detrimental to meditation practice
01:35:00 – The intersection of movement, somatic practices and meditation
01...2022-11-061h 58The Innercraft PodcastMeditation, Life, Music & Movement – GuruViking aka Steve JamesIn this episode, I’m joined by GuruViking aka Steve James, host of the Guru Viking Podcast and creator of the Movement Koan Method. Steve has extensive experience in elite athletic performance, contemplative and spiritual disciplines, extreme outdoor survival, the arts, and human behavior.
In this conversation, Steve and I talk about life in general, and how meditation fits in it. We discuss his goals and learnings in The Guru Viking Podcast, Steve’s upbringing and how he got started in meditation, his approach towards spiritual practice, the intersection between meditation, music and movement practices, The Movement Koan Method, and more2022-11-031h 59The Innercraft PodcastThe Headless Way – Guided Experiments #1 – Richard LangIn this workshop, Richard Lang guides us through different guided, unorthodox and simple pointing experiments aimed to remind us who we are, and who we are not.
This session with Richard felt like a natural and consistent revisiting of our true nature. It was very practice-oriented, but at the same time, felt effortless and was very enjoyable.
We recommend not only watching the recording, but actually following along and doing the experiments.2022-09-161h 19The Innercraft PodcastKnowing Yourself to be Free – Shaykh BurhanuddinKnowing ourselves is the reason why we are here on Earth, and this is our first and main duty; to see the hindrance of our mechanical personality, the sequel of the idealized images we create of ourselves. Only then we can liberate the colorful naked and unique beauty of our real selves. Only then we can experience true freedom. - Shaykh Burhanuddin2022-08-261h 04The Innercraft PodcastA Life in the Dharma – Ven. Thubten ChodronIn this episode, I’m speaking with Venerable Thubten Chodron. Ven. Chodron ordained as a Buddhist nun 40 years ago and since then has been studying, practicing, and teaching Tibetan Buddhism.
In this conversation, we talk about Venerable Chodron’s journey, her teaching method, her view on when one is ready to teach the dharma, qualities to look for in a teacher, the practical application of rebirth, similarities among Buddhist traditions, her view on tantric practice, and more.2022-07-191h 18
Richard Lang – Headless WayConversation with Richard Lang, May 2022Conversation between Richard Lang and Andres Valdivieso of Innercraft. For more content at Innercraft, visit https://www.inner-craft.com2022-06-251h 15The Innercraft PodcastThe 7 Factors of Awakening, Part 1 – Tina RasmussenIn this talk, Tina provides an overview of the 7 Factors and how they can be used in our practice. She also describes in more detail the first factor of Mindfulness, which balances the other 6.
Tina is a meditation teacher who leads retreats and offers spiritual guidance and mentoring to practitioners worldwide. Her mission as a teacher is to foster awakening and its embodiment in worldly life, through the application of authentic, rigorous Buddhist and modern practices.
Tina learned to meditate in 1976, at age 13. In her late twenties, after many years of practice in Buddhist and modern non-dual traditions, she undertook...2022-06-0949 minThe Innercraft PodcastSeeing Your True Nature – Richard LangIn this interview, Richard Lang talks about his journey prior to encountering the headless way, how his desire for awakening evolved over time, What The Headless Way is and how it works, and how we can incorporate frequent moments of seeing our true nature in the middle of daily life, the relationship between love, compassion and the headless way, and more. He also conducts an experiment for the audience, in which he attempts to make us realize what our First-person experience is actually like.
Message from Richard:
My name is Richard Lang and I have been involved with the Headless W...2022-06-091h 15The Innercraft PodcastThe Wisdom of Sufism – Shaykh BurhanuddinIn this interview, Shaykh Burhanuddin talks about the main goals, principles, and practices of the Sufi path, his relationship with his master, what Sufi meditation retreats look like, and the importance of consistent spiritual practice. He also talks about some of the main challenges present in the spiritual path and gives advice on how to overcome them.
Shaykh Burhanuddin is a contemporary mystic of ancient tradition, called onto the Sufi path at a young age. In his teaching, Shaykh Burhanuddin combines methods from his Sufi Tradition with contemporary knowledge of psychology.
He started the practice at 10 with Yoga, and between...2022-06-091h 07