A Buddhist Podcast
Since November of 2005, Jason and Karen Jarrett have shared their own personal Buddhist practice and experience through the medium of Podcasting.
They refer to it as “Practical Buddhism for living in the 21st Century, not beside a remote lake or mountainside but in the midst of daily life, with a job to do, a house to run and children to raise.” Indeed, much of what they present on A Buddhist Podcast has to do with the application of Buddhist principles to everyday life, with personal examples from their own experiences.
The Jarretts are devotees of Nichiren Daishonin’s Buddhism. The Daishonin was a 13th Century Japanese Priest who focused on the final teaching of Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha). This teaching is called the Lotus Sutra, and it proclaims that all living beings have the potential to attain enlightenment.
Daily practice involves morning and evening recitation before an object of respect called The Gohonzon, as well as study of the Daishonin’s life and writings.
On the Podcast the Jarretts share Buddhist study points in a way that is easy for listeners to understand and apply to daily life. Jason is fond of saying that this Buddhism, if it is to be anything, must be practical.
If you wonder how relevant 13th Century Japanese Buddhism can be to a family living in 3rd Millineum Britain, pour a cup of tea and listen in to A Buddhist Podcast.
Click here for the episode from which we took our excerpt on PodFinder 37.
