Buddhist Psychology Podcast
Episodes
Cultivating Profound Fearlessness
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Buddhism says that humans must be fearless to live in a world often ruled by ignorance and afflictive emotions. This episode explicates a type of fear...
Virtuous Activism
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Virtuous conduct is not contrary to making change happen or protesting. Buddhist psychology has a recipe for skillfully navigating distress and impend...
Co-creating An Intentional Ending
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Because psychotherapy is mostly a relational undertaking ending psychotherapy well is very important. I am a big fan of intentional endings. This epis...
Emptiness and Identity Confusion
22 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores two fundamental Buddhist psychological concepts—emptiness and identity confusion. While most clinicians think emptiness is ‘...
Activist Buddhist Psychology
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa invites clinicians to join her on the activist side of Buddhist psychology. Western psychotherapy has never been big on collective healing. A lar...
The End of Doubt
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode employs Buddhist psychology to explore doubt and its archrival, discerning wisdom. The Buddha conceptualized doubt as one of five mental ...
Being Skillful
25 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Four days into Trump 2.0 none of his folly and chaos is surprising. On the other hand, watching America’s democracy morph into an autocratic oligarc...
Surviving Extreme Loss
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is dedicated to all those in Los Angeles who have lost so much. The magnitude and rapidity of destruction is incomprehensible and painful...
Human goodness in psychotherapy
05 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What role should cultivating human goodness play in psychotherapy? Buddhist psychology asserts that virtuous conduct is essential for achieving a trul...
Fierce Compassion
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fierce compassion is the very heart of any skillful compassionate response to human suffering. Lisa Dale Miller describes the Buddhist psychological v...
Therapeutic Equanimity
21 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Equanimity is a core virtue in Buddhist psychology and is described as both a neutral feeling tone and a mental quality of impartiality or equalness. ...