The Modern Buddhism Podcast
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Welcome to the Modern Buddhism Podcast, where we explore how meditation and Buddha's timeless wisdom can help all of us to cultivate a deeper inner peace, happiness, and resilience in daily life. Join us for inspiring conversations with people who live these teachings every day. Hope you enjoy it. Produced by the New Kadampa Tradition
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Kadampa practitioners connect meditation and mind training to relationships, anxiety, mortality and the ordinary frustrations where spiritual practice becomes concrete.
The Modern Buddhism Podcast turns conversations with Kadampa Buddhist practitioners into practical studies of the mind. Adam and Agnes ask patient, direct questions about meditation, acceptance, attachment and compassion, keeping the discussion close to work, family…
The subway breaks down, and your meditation practice suddenly has a practical exam.
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Patience, anger, and learning to notice feelings without feeding them.
This review presents patience and anger through a clear moral and practical lens, treating radical acceptance as a starting point and linking patience to the Buddhist middle way between suppression and impulsive reaction.
A calm Buddhist account of self-esteem, grief, and gradual change.
The episode frames self-esteem through a Buddhist lens, treating damaged confidence as distorted self-perception rather than a separate flaw. Judging, attacking, and self-loathing are folded into one pattern, and the conversation stays grounded by linking that idea to meditation…
A hospice nurse recasts grief as attachment, and the teaching lands with quiet force.
The piece traces a hospice nurse moving through personal loss, years of being near death, and a Dharma teaching that changes how she sees grief.
Grief, rent pressure, and Buddhist practice meet in a careful conversation about death.
The conversation follows Rinchung from the brother she lost into the wider strain of living through Argentina's economic crisis, where rent keeps climbing and people are pushed to move again.
A calm case for treating city friction as spiritual training.
The episode treats New York City as a place where friction becomes practice. Subway breakdowns, roadworks, and the daily scrape of getting around all feed a calm argument for acceptance, and the strongest moments come when that idea is kept plain: difficulties can train the mind…
A calm, practical talk about panic, acceptance, and staying present with pain.
A speaker moves from depression, anxiety, and panic attacks toward a steadier mind after a doctor suggests meditation. The first breathing practice opens up mental space and eases the sense of being boxed in.
A grounded conversation about why achievement does not always bring peace.
A former management consultant traces the uneasy moment when a career that looked right on paper stopped feeling like hers. The conversation circles a simple but hard question: where does confidence come from?
A steady case for breathing room when the mind feels crowded.
This episode makes a quiet case for letting anxious thoughts pass without treating them like facts. It ties meditation to a simple habit of sitting with the mind instead of fighting it, then widens the frame to a world that feels more distracted and more anxious than the 80s…
Generous Buddhist conversations without the rush.
A reflective conversation about how the mind shapes experience and how it can be trained toward peace.
Adam talks with Marlies Antonios about meaning, family life, and inner development.
A Buddhist practitioner talks about how depression, anxiety, and panic attacks led her to meditation.
The conversation opens at the International Kanapa Retreat Center in Grand Canyon.
The conversation frames New York City as a place that keeps handing out obstacles.
The conversation begins with a simple concern: why so many people feel anxious and unable to settle their thoughts.
Lexanne looks back on a career in management consulting and the moment she was told she was not suited to it.
Rinchung speaks about death with bluntness.
Patience sits at the center of the conversation.
Shelley talks about running a medical communications company while trying to live by Buddhist compassion, wisdom, and ethics.
A guest notes how strange it can seem to turn loss into something that helps life.
Cata Morton discusses how Buddhist meditation helps transform self-esteem struggles by reorienting self-perception, sharing personal stories of grief and healing.
Genjigme, a Buddhist monk, discusses how social pressures and social media create feelings of not fitting in, leading to anxiety and self-criticism.
A discussion on using Buddhist methods like taking and giving meditation to transform fear and anxiety into peace and happiness.
Exploring how Buddhist teachings and meditation can help achieve work-life balance from the inside out.
An interview with a Buddhist nun exploring how compassion and meditation can transform daily life and bring deeper peace and happiness.
A conversation with a Buddhist nun about using meditation and Buddhist wisdom to overcome adversity and illness.
An interview with a Buddhist teacher and business owner about integrating meditation and Buddhist wisdom into a busy life.
A Buddhist nun discusses the difference between external and internal freedom in the context of Buddhist teachings.
A discussion on the fear of failure from a Buddhist perspective, exploring how self-grasping leads to suffering and how to cultivate a healthier motivation.
A discussion on using Buddhist teachings to turn inward and resolve conflict by addressing one's own mental responses rather than external circumstances.
An interview with a Buddhist monk about caring for others while maintaining self-care and inner peace.
A conversation with a Buddhist nun about understanding death and living a meaningful life through Buddhist practice.