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Talking with Lama Lodro Lhamo - President of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra
View this episode's page on Libsyn This is audio from a video discussion - see this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eFpLpjmPNxc Bill Moriarty talks with Lama Lodro Lhamo at the Karma Triyana Dharmachakra (KTD) monastery in Woodstock, New York. We discuss the importance of this place as the seat of the Karmapa in North America, and Lama Lodro's path to serving as first woman president of KTD. KTD: https://kagyu.org/ Visit us at The Wisdom Seat: https://www.thewisdomseat.or
Nov 4, 2024
NOVEMBER 2024 NEWSLETTER
IN THIS NEWSLETTER: • From The Wisdom Seat • The Wisdom Seat Events • Programs To Consider • A Teaching Steve McCurr y, New York City, NY, USA, 2005 Welcome to November! This is a tense time in the USA, and I had the good fortune to go to the first Wisdom Seat Retreat in October for 8 days of sitting meditation at Karma Triyana Dharmachakra (KTD) monastery in Woodstock, NY. There were about 20 of us practicing together, learning about each other, and enjoying mak
Oct 31, 2024
The Dalai Lama's Book agent, with Stephanie Tade
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Oct 21, 2024
Align Your Body, Elevate Your Practice: Yoga & Posture for Buddhist Practitioners
A Mindful Gathering with Corina Benner and Bill Moriarty
Oct 8, 2024
OCTOBER 2024 NEWSLETTER
IN THIS NEWSLETTER: • From The Wisdom Seat • The Wisdom Seat Events • Programs To Consider • A Teaching S teve McCurry, Burma / Myanmar, 2013 Practicing Dharma in Tibetan When I tell my friends and fellow Dharma practitioners that I do most of my Dharma practice in Tibetan they either look at me with puzzlement or concern - why torture yourself? I will try to answer that question by describing my own experience of learning Tibetan and how it became a source of in
Sep 30, 2024
Exploring the Bardos through Life
A Mindful Gathering with Alison Driscoll and Bill Moriarty
Sep 16, 2024
SEPTEMBER 2024 NEWSLETTER
IN THIS NEWSLETTER: • From The Wisdom Seat • The Wisdom Seat Events • Programs To Consider • A Teaching Passed Hands As Buddhist practitioners we are fortunate to live in an age when the authentic Buddhist teachings have “passed hands” from distant cultures through generous teachers directly into our lives. Buddhism has a storied history of such wisdom transmission from culture to culture, and we are indeed carrying on such a tradition in how we translate, pract
Aug 31, 2024
Elements of a Shrine
A Mindful Gathering with Michael Carroll, Jeremiah Fruchtman, and Bill Moriarty
Aug 11, 2024
AUGUST NEWSLETTER
IN THIS NEWSLETTER: • From The Wisdom Seat • The Wisdom Seat Events • Programs To Consider • A Teaching As many of you know, I am entering the 3 Year Retreat @ Sopa Choling in Nova Scotia, Canada. In fact, as you're reading this, I'm probably on the road. Firstly, I wanted to thank all who have donated so graciously to my endeavor. I have directly contacted many of you expressing my gratitude. Yet, I do not have direct contact information for some of you, so I'
Jul 31, 2024
Preparing for the 3 Year Retreat with Matt DiRodio
View this episode's page on Libsyn In this Wisdom Seat podcast episode, the focus is on co-founder Matt DiRodio as he prepares to embark on a 3 Year Retreat in the Tibetan Buddhist Kagyu lineage starting in August 2024. The episode features a detailed discussion from a recent Wisdom Seat community gathering, where Matt explains the history, structure, and personal motivations behind his retreat. Listeners gain insights into the retreat's practices and preparations. Matt's com
Jun 30, 2024
JULY NEWSLETTER
IN THIS NEWSLETTER: • From The Wisdom Seat • The Wisdom Seat Events • Programs To Consider • A Teaching The summer is here and many of us are busy tending the garden, putting in extra hours at work, or preparing for an adventure. It is also a time when we can wander through nature, find that welcoming rock beside a stream and take a well deserved seat. As we experience the activities of summer we can also be caught off guard by an unexpected circumstance. Perhap
Jun 30, 2024
Authentic Presence and the Feminine Principle
This retreat, held from June 26th to July 6th at Drala Mountain Center, was guided by esteemed teachers Michael Carroll, Susan Piver, Michele Sapanaro, and Maho Kawachi, the retreat explored the concepts of authentic presence and the feminine principle. Over the course of ten days, participants immersed themselves in a supportive and spacious community, engaging in deep study, meditation, and the practice of letting go.
Jun 26, 2024
Summer SOULstice Celebration
In this all-day mini-retreat with Corina Benner, we celebrated the beginning of summer at Pawo Khandro Ling.
Jun 23, 2024
Live an Awakened Life
From June 20th to June 26th, we gathered at Drala Mountain Center to explore the mindfulness-awareness meditation practice.
Jun 20, 2024
The Dalai Lama’s Book Agent
A Mindful Gathering with Stephanie Tade and Bill Moriarty
Jun 18, 2024
Anam Thubten on Nonviolence
View this episode's page on Libsyn On April 9, 2024, Anam Thubten visited Philadelphia, PA to give a talk. This event was put together by local students of Anam Thubten including Sunisa Manning, Ada Kase, and Geoff Matis. Anam Thubten was hosted by Germantown Friends Meeting to speak about nonviolence. https://dharmata.org The Wisdom Seat helped by providing audio equipment and running sound for the event. We were able to to provide, with Anam Thubten's permission, this recor
May 28, 2024
JUNE 2024 NEWSLETTER
IN THIS NEWSLETTER: • From The Wisdom Seat • The Wisdom Seat Events • Programs To Consider • A Teaching “If you come to me and say ‘Rinpoche, I can’t meditate at all; my mind is going everywhere: here, there, past, present, future,’ I should give you a medal. Finally you are meditating. The whole purpose of this instruction is to make you realize you cannot concentrate.” – Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche (from The Transforming Power of Meditation ) Often when someone
May 22, 2024
How The Wisdom Seat Started with Michael Carroll and Matt DiRodio
View this episode's page on Libsyn Welcome to another episode of The Wisdom Seat podcast. On today's episode, we are diving into the origins of The Wisdom Seat. I talk with Michael Carroll and Matt DiRodio, the two founders, about what brought them together, and what their original vision was. Then we'll hear about the encouragement and almost command from senior lineage holders to them that they must preserve the teachings of Trungpa Rinpoche. So, they began to invite and ho
Apr 30, 2024
MAY 2024 NEWSLETTER
IN THIS NEWSLETTER: • From The Wisdom Seat • The Wisdom Seat Events • Programs To Consider • A Teaching “Sitting lets us just, first of all, recognize that we are this massive collection of thoughts and experiences and sensations that are moving at the speed of light and that we never get a chance to just be still and pause and look at them, just for what they are, and then slowly to sort out our own voice from the rest of the thoughts, emotions, the interpretati
Apr 28, 2024
Exploring the Notion of a 'drala landing pad'
A Mindful Gathering with Michael Carroll and Bill Moriarty
Apr 16, 2024
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