Hello Everyone! Our show tonight continues with The Talking Revolution and the subject is Responsibility. A great way to share Buddhist concepts with friends and family as there is no jargon or language to get in the way! The music tonight comes from another SGI-UK member, Howard Jones, who wrote and performed Building our own Future. Suitably inspired, the authors Eddy Canfor-Dumas and Peter Osborne, talk with me about responsibility from a Buddhist perspective. A lot for everyone to...

On this show we have Peter Osborn and Eddy Canfor-Dumas , back with the second installment of The Talking Revolution. Its called, We are relationships. I play a great record called Big Hearted Man by Jimmy Golding! Following the theme we have some more conversation on the We are relationships chapter of the book. In an age when sometimes there is so little to rejoice about, it;s great to hear such positive conversation.

Introduction to the new book, The Talking Revolution, great track by Jody Gnant who plays Great Day and a conversation with the authors of The Talking Revolution, Edward Canfor Dumas and Peter Osborn.

A Buddhist Podcast for 3rd December 2018, William reads Chapter 11 from The Case for Buddhism. Its all about Buddhism and Money! We play Le Fin by Robin Lukas from her album Chianti and Olives.

This episode is the first of a few lectures by Jason on a letter Nichiren Daishonin wrote to Sennichi-Ama known as The Drum at the Gate of Thunder. 

Well, this one might come as a surprise! After reading the news last week and thinking about the news of this week and next, I thought I would try and get a lead on it with two brilliant talks from William Woollard on Negativity and Anger.

Welcome to a fresh new podcast! William Woollard reads Chapter 8 from his very readable book, The Case For Buddhism. Its a slightly longer chapter about Buddhism in Daily Life. We play one of my favourite tracks called Pettigoe by Cat Malojian. More coming soon! Have a wonderful week.

Welcome to another podcast! William Woollard continues his reading of his marvellous book, The Case For Buddhism. Tonights instalment is about Buddhist Practice. We play a marvellous track by Brian Blain called Ten Worlds. Its a brief show but I wanted to give you something while I continue to prepare more material! Have a fantastic week. 

Welcome to another episode of A Buddhist Podcast! Tonight William Woollard reads Chapter 5, Buddhism and Ethics from his book, The Case for Buddhism. We play a fun track by Robin Lukas called How are you? I love it! As soon as there is an official final version, we will post links here! After getting some emails from listeners with huge challenges I decided to talk about my experience of taking on challenges and lose grief to help me become a better person.

Welcome to another episode of A Buddhist Podcast! Tonight William Woollard reads Chapter 5, Buddhism and the Problem Paradox from his book, The Case for Buddhism.  I chat for a while about my life and share a recent understanding I've developed about a writing from Nichiren to a disciple going through challenging times! We music from the amazing Robin Lukas. Feels great to post this, have a fantastic week and take care of the people around you. Thank you

We start tonights show with a chapter from Williams book that sits alongside chapter 3, its a simple chapter about Nichiren Daishonin. I loved editing Chapter 4 and I hope you get as much out of it as I did. We play two tracks from the wonderful Robin Lukas, Smile (Robins track) from her album Beyond Paradise Edge, and Walkin’ By Myself from her Album, Robin Lukas.

Welcome back to A Buddhist Podcast! On tonights show we have  William Woollard  reading Chapter 3, from his new book, The Case For Buddhism! In the second half of the show Karen hears an experience from Vancouver Womens Division member, Joely! We have music from the Podsafe Music Network! We play the Dala Girls track, Hockey Sweater, from their album, Girls from the North Country. Thank you so much for everything, enjoy the show. Such a delight to put out another podcast!

Welcome back to A Buddhist Podcast! On tonights show we have Part 2 of Chapter two from William Woollard  reading from his new book, The Case For Buddhism! In the second half of the show Karen interviews the amazing Diane Esguerra about her new book, Junkie Buddha! We have music from the Podsafe Music Network! We play the Chris Ayer track, Awake, from his album, Don't Go Back To Sleep.  Thank you so much for everything, enjoy the show. Such a delight to put out another podcast!  

Welcome back to A Buddhist Podcast!  On tonights show we have William Woollard  reading from his new book, The Case For Buddhism! William reads Chapter 1 and part 1 of Chapter 2. It includes a refreshingly honest experience from William on how he started to practice!  Of course we have music from the Podsafe Music Network! We play the lively Nick Rave track called  - The Heaven Empire Radio Edit and Christie Grace with a really mellow tune called Lions Roar.  Thank you so much for all your...

Welcome to the first show of the year! Tonights Jason lectures on the writing, On Practicing The Buddha's Teachings. His lecture is based on President Ikeda's lectures series from The Teaching for Victory. Some of the theme for tonight include: From provisional to true How did Buddhism get so confused Former, middle and latter day of the law An accursed time Changing our minds The banner of our behaviour Archers of the mystic law Three carts and the burning house Shakabuku,...

Welcome to a podcast that took a long time to write! Tonights show is about death and dying from a Buddhist perspective. My lecture is based on President Ikeda's lecture in Unlocking the Mysteries of Life and Death. I am also very grateful to Donna and Dash for sharing their experience! Subjects include: Nobody believes they are going to die How do you want to feel when you die? Near death experiences 5 stages of dying 3 paths into 3 virtues And then there was one Nam myoho renge kyo...

Thank you so much for waiting. Welcome to the first show from our new home in Vancouver, Canada. Tonights lecture is based on some passages from a famous letter written by Nichiren Daishonin to his loyal disciple Shijo Kingo. My lecture is based on the first half of President Ikeda’s lecture on The Three Kinds of Treasure which can be found in SGI Newsletter No 7908.  Shijo Kingo is in the middle of a huge struggle and has written to Nichiren for guidance in faith on how he should go...

A few weeks ago we had the good fortune of having William Woollard, Matt MacMillan and Karen and myself sat around our kitchen table. We read two lovely experiences about relationships with mothers, one from two sisters in India, Bipasha van der Zijde & Bishaka Dalvi. The other experience was from Kelvin Lam.  We swapped stories and experiences and played music from the Podsafe music including, Levi Blues by the Lala Girls, Mine Again by Black Lab and Yael Naim with New Soul. The...

Longer than we expected but none the less, here we are again with the second of a two part lecture on a letter written by Nichiren Daishonin to Shiiji Shiro in 1261. The letter is called A Ship to Cross the Sea of Suffering. This lecture is based on SGI President Ikedas lecture in SGI Newsletter 8518. It was a challenge to get this done and I suspect you may need to listen a couple of times to pick up all the points. Subjects include: a ship to cross the water, five flavours, discarding...

We are back with the first of a two part lecture on a letter written by Nichiren Daishonin called A Ship to Cross the Sea of Suffering. The lecture is based on SGI President Ikeda’s guidance in SGI Newsletter 8518 which was giving in May this year. Subjects we cover include: Connecting our hearts to those around us Who was Shiiji Shiro? See like Li Lou, hear like Shih K’uang Faith rooted in action Teaching others about Buddhism The voice does the Buddha’s work A single sentence or...

Well finally we are back with another episode of A Buddhist Podcast! Its been a long gap since the last show, so thank you for your patience. On tonights show Jason and Karen give a lecture on a letter written by Nichiren Daishonin called Letter to Nakaoki. The lectures is based on the lecture given by SGI President Ikeda in SGI Newsletter 8294. Subjects we cover include: Buddhism before Nichiren Individuals create change Buddhism in daily life Protection from within invites protection...

Welcome to another episode of A Buddhist Podcast! On tonights show we have William Woollard reading the last part of Buddhism and the science of happiness, Appendix B. This is the show that is for every beginner you have ever wanted to have something to say, "Here, listen to this, this is the basics of Buddhism!" By popular demand we have some more questions that we do our best to answer as well as the traditional shootouts! In addition, we have music from the Podsafe Music Network. We play...

Wow! This show was a challenge to bring you! In the first part of the show which we recorded last week we have William Woollard giving a lecture on Nichiren Daishonin's writing called, The Offering of the Mud Pie. Its a terrific lecture and we hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed recording it! A good friend of the show sent us an email and Karen and Jason talk about their reactions and thoughts to it. During the editing, Jason wished he had said more about gratitude in his...

And we are back with A Buddhist Podcast! Thank you for downloading the show! Tonight we have William Woollard reading Chapter 16 and Appendix A from Buddhism and the science of happiness. We also have an experience from Uri Rosenrauch in New York City, which was so much fun to read and record. As usual we have shoutouts from all over the world and music from the Podsafe Music Network. We play Reach Out by Beatrice Ericsson, Not on the radio by Geoff Smith and 143 by the Australian band,...

Welcome to another episode of A Buddhist Podcast. Thank you for taking the time to download and listen to this show. On tonights show we have William Woollard back in the kitchen to read Chapter 15 from his amazing book, Buddhism and the science of happiness. Jason talks about his brief trip to SGI headquarters and we have shout outs and of course music. Music from tonights show comes from the Podsafe Music Network a part of the Mevio group. Chris Ayer sings Awake and the Dala Girls are back...