Episode four: Healing, Equanimity and Faith – a Conversation with Ananda; and Bowing to Buddha Statues

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Episode four: Healing, Equanimity and Faith – a Conversation with Ananda; and Bowing to Buddha Statues

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What kind of person do we need to be, in order to help people? What help is it actually possible to give? How can Buddhist teachings and practice support us in our helping relationships?

Ananada reflects on these questions after years of working in a ‘helping’ charity on Hawaii.

Kaspa also talks about the new eight foot tall Buddha statue in the temple, about where statues come from and why we bow to them. What exactly is it that we are bowing to?