Tasting Infinity - Meditation and Buddhism for Everyone

About Tasting Infinity - Meditation and Buddhism for Everyone

This podcast is dedicated to sharing Tibetan Buddhism and meditation techniques to help reduce anxiety, reduce stress, and help you reframe their thinking in order to be happier. I will not accept any revenues or money for these teachings. They are purely provided with the goal of helping reduce suffering in the world. To name a few of the topics that will be covered in this podcast, Tibetan Buddhism, Meditation, the 6 Paramitas, learning to let go, Loving Kindness Meditation, Compassion Meditation, Tonglen, Teachings on Emptiness (Shunyata), Karma case and effect, impermanence and many more

Publisher

Jason McDonald

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Jul 2022

Latest episode

3 Jul 2025

Latest episodes

40 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Jul 2025

   Samyutta Nikaya 22.43. With Yourselves as an Island

   This Sutta of the Buddha's words is short and full of wisdom. In this Attadīpasutta, translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi, and available free on SuttaCentral.com, Buddha gives us clear cut instructions to reduce sorrow and lamentation.

2. 

   30 Jun 2025

   The Two Truths and Emptiness in Buddhist Thought

   In this episode, we explore a profound teaching from the Madhyamaka-Prasangika tradition of Buddhism: the Two Truths — conventional truth and ultimate truth. Conventional truth refers to how things appear and function in everyday life: emotions, objects, people, and experiences. These phenomena can help or harm us, so they exist — but only in a dependent, relative way. Ultimate truth, on the other hand, points to the emptiness of all phenomena — the fact that nothing exists independently or inherently. Things lack an independent self or essence; they arise in dependence upon causes, conditions, parts, and the mind that labels them. As His Holiness the Dalai Lama explains, this doesn’t mean things are totally nonexistent (which would be nihilism). Rather, they exist, but not in the way they appear. Everything that seems solid or independently real is, under closer analysis, part of an interconnected web of causes and conditions. The concept of dependent origination is central. A tree, for example, arises from a seed, soil, sunlight, and water — and is made of parts like roots, leaves, and branches. Remove any of those, and the “tree” cannot exist. Even deeper, a tree is only called a “tree” because we label it that way. Its identity is not found in any single part. There are three types of dependence: Dependence on causes and conditions (e.g., how events or behaviors arise from past influences). Dependence on parts (e.g., how a whole object exists only because of its parts). Dependence on conceptual designation (e.g., how things are named and understood by the mind). These layers show us that what we perceive as independently existing entities are actually mental constructions. Much like a movie appears real on screen, the world appears real and self-contained — but is, in truth, a projection of causes and labels. Importantly, this teaching isn’t just intellectual. It’s a tool to reduce suffering. Our negative emotions — anger, fear, pride — stem from grasping at things as solid and unchanging. When we realize their empty, dependent nature, our reactivity softens. We’re less quick to judge or cling. Emptiness, then, isn’t a void — it’s a liberating insight into how things really are: interconnected, ever-changing, and free of inherent identity. This understanding doesn’t negate reality — it enriches it, making space for wisdom and compassion to grow.

3. 

   24 Sept 2024

   Letting go into the magic of life

   How do wild flowers grow without any effort? We could never replicate something so beautiful, yet we strive and suffer, and stress in our lives. By simply letting go, falling into the beauty of life, we can allow life to catapult us forward while maintaining peace and balance. This free dharma talk discusses how letting go is so rewarding.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Spotify

4.0 / 5

1 ratings