Épisodes

  • Gates to Awakening: Giving and Thanking
    Dec 1 2025

    In this episode, Sensei Morris talks about how to get the most from the holiday season (and other emotion-laded times) by practicing gratitude and generosity as dharma gates.

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    24 min
  • Foxes, Camels and Billionaires: Spirituality and Money
    Nov 20 2025

    Social movements like the "prosperity gospel" and concern over potential domination of government by oligarchs might lead us to wonder if it's possible to be financially successful without being "evil." In this talk, Sensei Morris Doshin Sullivan looks at how the Buddha talked about wealth, and how money and the spiritual life relate.

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    23 min
  • Not Knowing is Most Intimate
    Nov 7 2025

    The Zen koan on Not Knowing is a core teaching in some schools of Buddhism. In this talk, Sensei Morris Doshin Sullivan talks about some of his encounters with Not Knowing and suggests ways the listener might use it for their own awakening.

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    56 min
  • Ullambana and Feeding the Hungry Spirits
    Jul 29 2023

    Late summer through early fall is an important time for many Buddhist cultures, a time in which we offer food and drink to our ancestors, and we feed the hungry ghosts in our midst. In this episode, Sensei Morris talks about the significance of these observances, including instructions about how the listener also might make an offering to the hungry ghosts.

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    19 min
  • Every Step of the Journey is the No-Journey
    Jun 1 2023

    In this talk, Sensei Morris discusses a saying by one of his teachers, Ven. Khai Thien--"Every step of the journey is the journey." He shares thoughts on how to make use of this saying, and also how to transcend it, to experience the "no journey" that the instruction ultimately embodies.

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    15 min
  • No Peace at White Sands
    May 2 2023

    White Sands Buddhist Center is a peaceful place. And yet, there is no peace at White Sands. In this episode, Sensei Morris Doshin Sullivan talks about how to make peace by embodying peace.

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    12 min
  • What is Enlightenment?
    Feb 18 2023

    You often hear that the objective of Buddhist practice is enlightenment. But there are a lot of different views of what constitutes enlightenment. In this episode, Sensei Morris talks about the idea of enlightenment in a way that can help us direct our practice and live more enlightened lives.

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    25 min
  • Who--Or What--Is Buddha?
    Jan 20 2023

    Most people come to Buddhism with some ideas about what it means to be "Buddha." But spend some time with Buddhists from different traditions, and you soon see that this word Buddha might change from one context to another. In this talk, Sensei Morris explains some of the different meanings can apply to this word, "Buddha" and how we might use that word to wake up ourselves.

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    25 min