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Skillful Means Podcast

Skillful Means Podcast

著者: Jennifer O'Sullivan
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Skillful Means Podcast offers practical wisdom for everyday life. Host Jennifer O'Sullivan explores navigating life's challenges through the lenses of Buddhist mindfulness, yoga, Internal Family Systems, and positive psychology.

Each month, episodes feature grounded guidance and accessible practices for meeting whatever arises with greater ease.

Jennifer is a Certified IFS Practitioner with over 20 years of experience teaching yoga and mindfulness.

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  • #111 Awakening the Heart Part 3: Generosity of Spirit with Lauren Goldberg
    2025/08/05

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    In Part 3 of the Awakening the Heart series, we're looking at why acts of kindness and service are powerful resilience-builders — possibly the exact things we need if we're to overcome so much divisiveness in our relationships and discourse.

    To understand why a generous spirit is so supportive, we explore the Buddhist and Yoga concepts of dana (generosity) and seva (selfless service) and how they relate to modern psychology's hope theory (hat tip to CR Snyder).

    Then Jennifer is joined by friend and colleague Laurent Goldberg to talk about her simple but brilliant Career Support Care Packages, which perfectly illustrate how generosity can restore our sense of agency and hope when everything feels so dispiriting.

    Highlights include:

    • how the Eastern philosophical traditions from India view dana and seva
    • how willpower and waypower fuel hope
    • why helping others should be in your resistance/resilience toolkit
    • how Lauren designed her care packages to support both sender and receiver
    • thinking about service not as self-sacrifice but as a way to put your skills and talents toward the greater good

    Links

    • Get in touch with Lauren Goldberg: https://laurengoldbergcoaching.com/
    • Send a Career Support Care Package: https://laurengoldbergcoaching.com/career-support-care-package
    • Building Movement Project's Social Change Ecosystem Map: https://buildingmovement.org/our-work/movement-building/social-change-ecosystem-map/

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    SMP welcomes your comments and questions at feedback@skillfulmeanspodcast.com. You can also get in touch with Jen through her website: https://www.sati.yoga

    Fill out this survey to help guide the direction of the show: https://airtable.com/appM7JWCQd7Q1Hwa4/pagRTiysNido3BXqF/form

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    57 分
  • #110 Transform Suffering with Brief Tonglen Guided Practice
    2025/07/22

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    Tonglen - the practice of sending and receiving - helps us to be with hardship without falling into despair. An explanation of the practice appears in the Lojong teachings and is associated with those who follow the path of the Bodhisattvas.

    In addition to cultivating an open, spacious heart, Tonglen can help us to cultivate the paramitas - the perfections - especially generosity, loving-kindness, determination, and diligence.

    The practice starts at 3:14 after a brief introduction. If your player supports chapter markers, you can skip ahead.

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    SMP welcomes your comments and questions at feedback@skillfulmeanspodcast.com. You can also get in touch with Jen through her website: https://www.sati.yoga

    Fill out this survey to help guide the direction of the show: https://airtable.com/appM7JWCQd7Q1Hwa4/pagRTiysNido3BXqF/form

    To support the show, consider a donation via Ko-Fi.

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    18 分
  • #109 Awakening the Heart Part 2: Training in Compassion
    2025/07/08

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    Continuing our series on Awakening the Heart, this month we're exploring the Buddhist path of the bodhisattva through the cultivation of bodhicitta - the awakened heart-mind that forms the foundation of compassionate living.

    Drawing from Mahayana Buddhist teachings, we also take a look at Lojong (mind training), the Tibetan Buddhist contemplative practice that can be used as a powerful framework for developing genuine compassion.

    Highlights include:

    • Cultivating the open-hearted attitude of enlightened ones (Bodhisattvas)
    • Two types of Bodhicitta
    • Paramitas (Perfections)
    • Short history and details of Lojong
    • Unpacking of the First Lojong statement: Train the Preliminaries
    • Tips for working with the Lojong phrases

    Mentioned on the show:

    • Judy Lief's online Lojong translation and commentary: https://judylief.com/offerings/slogans-of-atisha/
    • Norman Fischer's "Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong" https://bookshop.org/p/books/training-in-compassion-zen-teachings-on-the-practice-of-lojong-norman-fischer/9663817?ean=9781611800401&next=t
    • VIA Character Strengths & Virtues: https://www.viacharacter.org/
    • Dalai Lama Poem "This Precious Human Life" https://mountainsangha.org/a-precious-human-life/

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    SMP welcomes your comments and questions at feedback@skillfulmeanspodcast.com. You can also get in touch with Jen through her website: https://www.sati.yoga

    Fill out this survey to help guide the direction of the show: https://airtable.com/appM7JWCQd7Q1Hwa4/pagRTiysNido3BXqF/form

    To support the show, consider a donation via Ko-Fi.

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    28 分
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