A Buddhist Podcast

A Buddhist Podcast - Hell is the Land of Tranquil Light

jason — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:25:58 +0000

We can hardly believe that it is almost exactly half way through 2009! Wow! Tonight we bring you a lecture on the letter written by Nichiren Daishonin to the Lay Nun of Ueno. The letter is called, Hell is the Land of Tranquil Light. Some of the subject teasers for tonight include:

We need to reveal Buddhahood to overcome our karma
Lets try and remember the names of our mothers
The icy wind of thoughtless encouragement
The ten worlds exist in life and death
Giving 150% . . .in small bursts
Are you in a prison of someone elses making?
Changing circumstances won’t change karma
Attaining Buddhahood just as you are
It is human to feel grief when someone dies
Gohonzon is the baseline of Buddhahood
Chant first, shout later.

We have music for you from the Podsafe Music Network. First up is Carbon Leaf with A Life Less Ordinary. We close the show with Shines Right Through Me by the amazing Great Big Sea! The links we have for the tracks will take you through to where you can buy them on iTunes and the links for the names will take you through to their own website.

Karen and I are busy posting off orders for our new Tshirts! If you have yours and you send us a photograph of you wearing them, we will consider putting it on the artwork for the show (needs to be family friendly!) so send them in to us at jason(at)thejarretts.com!

Thankyou for your comments and encouragement. Thank you for all the support you give us, we really do feel and appreciate it. Please take great care and have the most amazing and wonderful week.

A Buddhist Podcast - The Reluctant Buddhist - Chapter 5

jason — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:02:26 +0000

We are back on schedule tonight with the wonderful William Woollard reading Chapter 5, “What do we mean by happiness?”, from his book The Reluctant Buddhist which is now being reprinted and translated into more languages!

We have shoutouts and some great music. Tonight we play Rocket to the Moon by the wonderful Jimmy Golding and Day by Now is Now is on ITunes. Both artists are on the Podsafe Music Network.

We have some great new material to bring to you and we welcome your feedback, reviews, experiences and contributions. For those people who have been asking about a tshirt, you can get them here our thanks to Polly and Helen of Pressoffers for their help with this.

Thank you for your support and encouragement, we do appreciate it so much. Have a fantastic week!

A Buddhist Podcast - Letter to Misawa

jason — Sun, 24 May 2009 11:59:08 +0000

Tonight we have a lecture on “Letter to Misawa”. This lectures is about many things, but one thing is for sure it does address the three obstacles and four devils. Perhaps because it does so it might explain why it has taken 5 months to write 3 times, why cables went missing right before we started the show and a myriad of others obstacles emerged! Some of tonights themes include:

Practicing correctly involves transforming the negativity in the world around you
Three obstacles and four devils
What is the devil king of the 6th heaven anyway?
Nikko takes it to the man
Self reliant faith
The Gohonzon certifies that Buddhahood exists
Some experience of overcoming obstacles
What do you want to break through?
Why is the Soka Gakkai different?

Its a full show and along with the shout outs we play three tracks tonight from the Podsafe Music Network.

We play Code Monkey by Jonathan Coulton on the PMN who sings Code Monkey. You can find Jonathan Coulton also on ITunes. And we play two tracks from Adrina Thorpe who sings Coming Home and Fly Fly Fly. Adrina is also on iTunes.

In response to the many requests for TShirts we are now able to offer them for almost half the previous price and twice the quality! Thanks Polly Earnest and Helen Steyner of PressOffers.com who have created the shop for us!

Thank you for all your support, encouragement, comments and input! It is such great good fortune to be able to do this podcast.