Episodes
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Healing and Transformation: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Friday Jun 10, 2022
6-5-22
The teachings of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness were the foundation of the Buddha’s meditation system and are the basis for living a wholesome and happy life. Learning to be aware and present to both the experiences of one’s body and to the experiences of one's mind is the practice of full awareness.
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
A Buddhist Response to Endless Wars (2022)
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
4-10-22
In this talk, Dharma Teacher Fred Eppsteiner share with us teachings on love and compassion. Thich Nhat Hanh teaches us "It is my conviction that we cannot change the world, if we are not capable of changing our way of thinking, our consciousness. That is why awakening, collective awakening, collective change in our way of thinking, our way of seeing things is very crucial. And all of us can help to promote that. Our task is to come together and to produce, to try to produce a kind of collective awakening.
And there are many ways in order to bring about that kind of collective awakening and change. And that is why to learn to change our way of daily life, so that there is more mindfulness, more peace, more love, is a very urgent thing. And we can do that – beginning now, today."
Peace begins with me. If we want a peaceful world, we have to become peaceful people; free of anger and hatred. We have to uproot the seeds of anger and hatred within ourselves through mindfulness, love, and compassion.
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
Pith of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Meditation: The Fourteen Verses (2022)
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
03-20-22
In this talk from our four-day silent retreat, Fred shares teachings and practices from a practice text that Thay wrote to summarize the meditative path, "Fourteen Verses on Meditation." It presents the practices of Stopping (samatha), Deep Looking (Vipasyana) and the non-intellectual experience of Emptiness and Non-self as the means of liberation from suffering (Breakthrough).
Thursday Mar 10, 2022
The True Meaning of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Engaged Buddhism
Thursday Mar 10, 2022
Thursday Mar 10, 2022
1-9-22
In this talk, Dharma Teacher Fred Eppsteiner share with us his experiences with Thich Nhat Hanh and share with us not only the history of Thay's Engaged Buddhism, but it's true meaning and how we can practice this engagement in all of our actions each and every day.
Thursday Mar 10, 2022
Is Creating Beauty An Act of Generosity? (2022)
Thursday Mar 10, 2022
Thursday Mar 10, 2022
3-6-22
In this talk, Dharma Teacher Fred Eppsteiner share with us a letter he received about FCM's beautification of the gardens. Fred responds to the letter in his talk examining intention, generosity, beauty, and what does it mean practice generosity and be of benefit. He asks us to reflect on the question "is creating beauty an act of generosity?"
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Accessing the Unborn Buddha Mind (final Dharma Talk) 2022
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Bankei was a Zen master who presented the path of awakening as something simple, practical, readily apparent and available to anyone who would follow his directions. Although his early meditation practice was quite arduous and strident, after his enlightenment, he realized that accessing the Unborn Born Buddha Mind was a much easier and relaxed process than he had imagined. In this final talk of our online retreat, Fred shares with us the teachings and, most importantly, the practices taught by this illustrious master to understand and experience this Unborn Buddha Mind that each of us possess.
Monday Dec 20, 2021
The Dharma of Scrooge (2021)
Monday Dec 20, 2021
Monday Dec 20, 2021
12-19-21
In this Dharma talk, Fred Eppsteiner relates the story of the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge from Dickens', "A Christmas Carol." Through this story, Fred explains how we can all transform the suffering we experience from living a life devoted to self into a happy, meaningful life filled with love and compassion for others.
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Core Values of the Florida Community of Mindfulness (2021)
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Monday Dec 13, 2021
12-12-21
The Florida Community of Mindfulness has a very clear vision and mission that it seeks to realize. It also has eight essential principles, or "core values," that underlie, motivate, shape and guide the community. In this talk to students of FCM, teacher Fred Eppsteiner more deeply describes the core values of Awakening and Community.
Saturday Nov 27, 2021
Learning How to Love (2021)
Saturday Nov 27, 2021
Saturday Nov 27, 2021
11-21-21
Dharma teacher Fred gives a talk during a retreat titled "Learning How to Love."
In this four-day retreat, Fred guided participants in the teachings and practices found in the Buddhist tradition that train our hearts and minds to become vessels of love and understanding. No longer hoping that a change of heart will happen spontaneously or become a random occurrence, we practice developing the ability to generate the heart of love and compassion in all life situations and relationships. We also looked at those historical mind states and self-centered orientations that sabotage the loving heart and establish barriers.
Friday Nov 19, 2021
Personal Boundaries and the Buddhist Teachings On No-Boundaries (2021)
Friday Nov 19, 2021
Friday Nov 19, 2021