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From No Contact to Best Friends

Download the Buddhability App Apple iOS Android If you’re not on speaking terms with someone, can that relationship ever change? Today’s guest, Min Kim Sieling, reach many of her life goals like moving to the U.S. and getting married. But she realized she wanted to strive for something deeper: her relationship with her mom. Min shares the story of how chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo helped her go from no-contact to best friends with her mom. Watch today's episode on YouTube Resources: The Opening of the Eyes, p. 65

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Part 3: How Can I Change the World?

Download the Buddhability App Apple iOS Android RSVP for Buddhability Live on Monday, April 27th This month, we’re doing a short series about how to put the power back in your hands. Today’s episode is about the power of connection and mutually encouraging relationships. Resources: Want to Be Happy? Help Other People Awakening to the Interconnectedness of Life Toward an Era of Human Rights: Building a People’s Movement Cam’s Interview: How Connecting With People Enhanced My Self Care Eddie’s Interview: Can One Person Really Change the World? Reach out to us at connect@buddhability.org to get connected with a Buddhability community near you.

Part 2: Will My Problems Ever Go Away?

Download the Buddhability App Apple iOS Android This month, we’re doing a short series about how to put the power back in your hands. Today’s episode is about the potential in your problems. Resources: Challenges Can Fortify Our Growth and Happiness “What It Means to Hear the Buddha Vehicle,” The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, vol. 2, p. 743) July 2020 Living Buddhism, p. 56 Interviews Included: Moeko Fukada Teter Marko Bajkovic Immaculate Mutebi Reach out to us at connect@buddhability.org to get connected with a Buddhability community near you.

Part 1: What Can Happen When You Make Up Your Mind?

Download the Buddhability App Apple iOS Android This month, we’re doing a short series about how to put the power back in your hands. Today’s episode is about the power of simply deciding. Resources: The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 1, revised edition, p. 35. Discussions on Youth, new addition, p. 411. Each Constant Contains Incredible Possibilities Christopher Robin’s Episode: What it Took to Make My Dreams a Reality Reach out to us at connect@buddhability.org to get connected with a Buddhability community near you.

For Anyone Who’s Ever Been Counted Out

Download the Buddhability App Apple iOS Android As a child, Samirah Gnangbe, lived through a civil war. From that moment on, she became someone who paved the way for others as a second-language learner and Ph.D. student in engineering. Samirah shares how she challenged herself each step of the way through chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. Watch today's episode on our YouTube channel. Resources: Discussions on Youth, new edition, pp. 8, 25 The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, vol 1, p. 4

Life After NCAA Basketball Wins

Download the Buddhability App Apple iOS Android Rhonda Windham, of Los Angeles, was already an NCAA basketball champion and trailblazing WNBA General Manager beforeencountering Buddhism. She shares what practicing Buddhism taught her that all her success did not—how to look inward with unflinching honesty and lead with her heart. Watch today's episode on YouTube

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Facing The Fear of Death [March 2024]

Download the Buddhability App Apple iOS Android It’s natural to want to look away from the inevitable reality of death but Buddhism teaches that death is an alternate phase of life and makes up a larger universal cycle. To understand death is to deepen our understanding of and appreciation for life. Today’s guest, John Plummer, of Cold Spring, NY, shares how facing his fear of loss improved his relationships and deepened his work as a film and TV writer. References: The New Human Revolution, vol. 24, pp. 177–78 A Piece of Mirror and Other Essays, pp. 79, 83–84. Leave of Grass by Walt Whitman. “Like the Sun Rising,” Journey of Life: Selected Poems of Daisaku Ikeda Unlocking the Mysteries of Unlocking Birth and Death, p. 104. The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 1, revised edition.