Meditation & setting a proper motivation for listening to the teaching [3 minutes] : Download | Listen

What is Mind in Buddhism? Different levels of mind. Why is it important to understand the mind?
[13 minutes] : Download | Listen

How the mind creates our experiences - I
[12 minutes] : Download | Listen

How the mind creates our experiences - II
[12 minutes] : Download | Listen

Relating to friends, family members, boring or disagreeable people: seeing each living being as an unknown treasure, drawing out their qualities and talents like a musician brings forth a beautiful piece of music from an instrument
[19 minutes] : Download | Listen

The second way in which our mind creates our experiences
[4 minutes] : Download | Listen

Question & Answer session
[36 minutes] : Download | Listen

Questions covered (Start-time for each question is indicated at the end):

• How our pets help to calm our anger. 0:16
• If we're all interdependent as the Buddha teaches, then wouldn't we be more reactive to the people around us, getting happy when they are, and miserable when they're miserable? 2:13
• What would you advice be, to the family of the people on Flight SQ 006 that had crashed recently, to help them cope with their grief? 5:32
• Where exactly is our mind located? What is the relationship between the mind and the consciousness? 11:54
• What's the difference between the programs we find in society in general for creating postitive mental attitudes and the Buddhist way of doing it? 13:09
• How do we know that Buddhism is the right way and what made you become a Buddhist? 15:30
• If we always maintain a positive attitude towards other people, won't others take advantage of us? 17:03
• Does love transcend everything, including religion? 19:18
• How can I be truly happy when others are not? 21:09
• The effect of the InterNet. 23:53
• If we're going to be Buddhists and believe in being vegetarian, why do we eat mock chicken? 26:15
• What does no-self mean? 28:44
• How many rebirths do we have to go through and how much do we have to relinquish before attaining liberation or enlightenment? 30:26
• Do you need to become a monk or a nun in order to attain Enlightenment? 32:39