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Article: Book Review: A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives

Applied Buddhist Psychology, Article, Buddhism, Compassion, Empowered Living, Thupten Jinpa

By Barry Lipscomb

Reading A Fearless Heart was a very powerful, transformative, and healing experience for me personally. This was heightened by reading the book the same week I began the Sacred Stream's Applied Buddhist Psychology 1: Entering the Stream class, and started practicing Shamata meditation. It seems my heart is breaking open and expanding in new directions, as if compassion and loving-kindness is the last frontier.

Video: Wise Action: Spiritual Emergency and Buddhist Practice with Isa Gucciardi

Applied Buddhist Psychology, Buddhism, Isa Gucciardi, Video

In this talk with the San Francisco Dharma Collective, Isa Gucciardi explores the phenomenon of Spiritual Emergency and learn how to recognize it. She explains how various Buddhist practices can help bring balance for people who are trying to integrate this experience, both within themselves and for those around them.

Article: Book Review: Tsongkhapa, a Buddha in the Land of Snows

Applied Buddhist Psychology, Article, Buddhism, Isa Gucciardi, Thupten Jinpa

By Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.

Tsongkhapa, a Buddha in the Land of Snows is Buddhist scholar Thupten Jinpa’s contribution to Shambhala Publications’ remarkable series, The Lives of the Masters, which seeks to memorialize the contributions of some of the most important thinkers in Buddhist philosophy. Tsongkhapa, who lived from 1357-1419, is considered one of the greatest Buddhist philosophers and teachers that ever lived.

Podcast: Episode 56: Isa Gucciardi: Oracle Traditions in Buddhism and Shamanism

Applied Buddhist Psychology, Applied Shamanism, Buddhism, Podcast

This episode features a talk by Isa Gucciardi on the Oracle Traditions found in Buddhism and Shamanism. In this talk, originally given at the Science and Nonduality Conference in San Jose, CA, Isa gives an overview of some of the remarkable lineages found in Buddhism and Shamanism and the methods of accessing wisdom through channeling as described in these traditions.

Article: The Journey: Buddhism and Shamanism at the Crossroads

Applied Buddhist Psychology, Applied Shamanism, Article, Buddhism, Depth Hypnosis, Inner Wisdom, Isa Gucciardi, Shamanic Journey, The Eightfold Path

By Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.

We live in a time of paradox. On the one hand, wars and conflicts of all sorts rage all around us. The Earth is buckling under the effect of them. We also live in a time where there are opportunities for innovative solutions to our situation. We could focus on different types of innovations – technology, new ways of doing business, and more. But here, I would like to focus on the new spiritual and healing possibilities that are emerging to address this crisis. These approaches to addressing the difficulties of the current time can help us explore consciousness in ways that might not be accessible in less tumultuous times.

Blog: Personal Responsibility: An Interview with Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.

Applied Buddhist Psychology, Blog, Empowered Living, Inner Wisdom, Isa Gucciardi, Personal Responsibility, Relationships

Question: How would you define personal responsibility? Isa: Personal responsibility is a process of becoming more self-aware, understanding your motivations, your intentions, and the effect your actions and thoughts have on you and those around you. It involves a willingness to contemplate the consequences of your emotional responses, and the ability to recognize when those expressions are harmful and when they are beneficial.

Buddhist Meditation in Depth Hypnosis

Applied Buddhist Psychology, Blog, Buddhism, Depth Hypnosis, Empowered Living, Inner Wisdom, Isa Gucciardi, Mind Training

By Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.

Depth Hypnosis is a therapeutic process that blends elements of Shamanism, Buddhism, transpersonal psychology, hypnotherapy, and energy medicine. Buddhism is one of the main engines of Depth Hypnosis, and meditation is one of many tools we use to help clients alter their state of consciousness. Meditation enables clients to shift their focus from their "thinking minds" to their inner experience.

On the Air: Inner Truth Podcast Episode #001: Conflict As A Gateway To Peace with Isa Gucciardi

Abuse, Addiction, Applied Buddhist Psychology, Applied Shamanism, Buddhism, Depth Hypnosis, On The Air

The Inner Truth podcast looks at the central questions of human life, what does it mean to be human, and how can we be fully alive? Inner Truth explores answers to these questions through ancient and contemporary spiritual wisdom along with insights from the fields of psychology, philosophy, and mythology. It also looks at the role of shamanism, meditation, and reconnection with nature as tributaries into the inner self, the wellspring of our inner source in knowledge. In the premier episode, Inner Truth host David Newell catches up with Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D. - Founding Director and lead teacher of the Foundation of the Sacred Stream - to talk about conflict, the ways we can take steps to resolve it, and how it can be gateway to profound internal growth and healing.

Blog: Weaving Worlds at Menla

Applied Buddhist Psychology, Blog, Robert Thurman

By Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.

The wind at Menla arises in its own particular way at any time of the year. But in the fall something very special happens when you least expect it. By October, the leaves have begun to change. The sumac is brilliant scarlet, the ash trees are a deep vermillion and the catalpa trees are inexplicably brighter green than they were all summer. In the midst of all these hues, the wind arises.

Blog: Buddhist Perspectives on Grief and Loss

Applied Buddhist Psychology, Blog, Buddhism, Death, Empowered Living, Grief and Loss, Robert Thurman

By Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.

In Robert Thurman’s prelude to his translation of Bardo Thodol, commonly translated as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, he takes to task scientific materialists’ perspective that death is a terminal state, a state of nothingness where life is destroyed. He points out that these materialists “have never observed even one material thing become nothing. Why should the energy reality of a state of awareness [life] ……be the exception to the law of physics that energy is conserved and only transformed?” I have always appreciated Dr. Thurman’s willingness to take on monolithic prejudices, in the name of science, in response to spiritual questions. I have always felt the wholesale rejection of notions such as the possibility of life after death and the existence of spirit was highly unscientific. In order to step into the universe of life beyond death from the Buddhist perspective, we have to allow ourselves to be disabused of the ways in which we may have unwittingly digested the viewpoints of scientific materialism on these subjects simply because they dominate in our education system.