In this podcast Professor Thurman leads a reading of the early Pali Suttas known as the Digha Nikaya or The Long Discourses of the Buddha on the four foundations of Mindfulness. Includes a guided meditation using the Buddha’s instructions to bhikkhus & bhikkhunis.
Recorded at the 2009 Tibet House US weekend retreat “Stress” with Sharon Salzberg at Menla in Phoenicia, New York.
Image by Matjaz Krivic from the Tibet House US Exhibition “Silent Spaces” on Display through March 2017.
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