The Buddhist Auntie Podcast

Ceremony for healing heartbreak and letting go of old relationships. Fire ceremony starts at 9:50 if you want to skip the regression. To new beginnings and transformation!

Heartbreak is painful, and it can have a lasting impact in surprising ways if we don't process, grieve, and release it. Heartbreak from years ago impacted my self-esteem, without me even realizing it. Here are tools for letting go of a breakup so you can move forward healed and empowered.

How teachings on death can help you live happier right now. What happens when you die? Not something we like to think about, yet none of us can avoid death, and none of us knows when it will happen. It might seem strange, but preparing for death, even when we’re perfectly healthy, can help us be happier right now.This episode is broken into two parts. First we talk about the importance of preparing for death. Then we learn about how we experience death, step by step, as taught in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. We learn about what we can expect when we’re expecting … to die. We also discuss reincarnation and the journey between death and rebirth.*This episode contains works excerpted under the fair use exemption of the Copyright Act for the purposes of commentary, teaching, and education.

How teachings on death can help you live happier right now. What happens when you die? Not something we like to think about, yet none of us can avoid death, and none of us knows when it will happen. It might seem strange, but preparing for death, even when we’re perfectly healthy, can help us be happier right now.This episode is broken into two parts. First we talk about the importance of preparing for death. Then we learn about how we experience death, step by step, as taught in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. We learn about what we can expect when we’re expecting … to die. We also discuss reincarnation and the journey between death and rebirth.*This episode contains works excerpted under the fair use exemption of the Copyright Act for the purposes of commentary, teaching, and education.

A quick, 13 minute meditation to open your heart, get in touch with love, and expand your compassion.

Listener “Holding On” is in a long-term relationship, heading toward serious commitment. But she suspects her partner has a drinking problem. Should she stay, or should she go? How do you distinguish between intuition and fear?

Want to learn how to meditate? Have a spare 15 minutes? Enjoy a treat of brief respite to your busy day.

You can expect meditation to create magic in your life, but not the magic you expect. In this episode, the Buddhist Auntie discusses what happens when you start meditating every day. Magic? Manifestation? Miracles? More like, facing your own junk, and finding out who you really are. Once that happens, things start to change – you, from within.

We think of money as a commodity. But what if it’s actually a unit of measure? In this episode we talk about the origin of money and how it’s created. Perhaps understanding the origin of money and how it’s created will help us create more of it in our own lives.

How to meditate - a 20-minute sitting meditation practice. This practice is comprised of two traditional Buddhist practices. Shamatha, or one-pointed concentration, helps to quiet and still the mind. Vipassana, or calm-abiding, helps us practice equanimity and awareness beyond thoughts and beyond concepts. Together, this practice is a life-raft to escape the turbulence of life's battering waves. Over time the practice becomes a surfboard, to ride the waves with joy.

The pitfalls of using affirmations and visualization to get what you want, and how manifestation can create even more suffering. Featuring a gentle roast of The Secret, Wayne Dyer, and Louise Hay, and props to Eckhart Tolle. Respect for the New Age OGs.

Pop culture sees karma as a cosmic boomerang, but that kind of mystical thinking gets us off the hook too easily. It's more useful to see karma as our unconscious mental and emotional patterns, often shaped by the past. In this episode we look at how trauma from the past shapes events today, and how the collective karmic baggage of racism impacts our lives.

"There's a difference between supporting me to achieve my fullest potential, and putting me down because I don't meet your standards." Why do we fall short of fulfillment in love? There's a trick to it, and it's the opposite of what many might think.

Sometimes we reach moments that define and change our lives forever. A five-day silent meditation retreat shattered me and completely altered the course of my life. This is my story.

A brain at rest isn't resting at all, as science has discovered. The technology to map the brain has revealed that when we aren't doing something, we lapse into the default mode -- making up stories about ourselves, fantasizing about the future, and reliving the past. But the brains of meditators look different. This episode talks about the neuroscience of meditation, and how this ancient practice helps anxiety and depression.

Enjoying the vastness of joy and love in life is easy, except when we get stuck in our heads, or don't even recognize anger when it's there. In this episode, we see how the rage that catalyzes the world's atrocities is no different than the little resentments that slowly poison our relationships. We look at how mindfulness and awareness stop the cycle and help us become more loving and forgiving, of others and ourselves.

Advice from a friendly human. The Buddhist Auntie offers a Buddhist perspective on life's problems. In the first episode, we talk about happiness. Is it just the weather, or can we feel happy all the time?