- What’s Changing on This Channel (And Why)
After nine-plus years of building a library focused on early Buddhist teachings, Doug shares some changes coming to the channel — what’s shifting in his thinking, how his life is evolving, and what you can expect going forward. The…
- Hundreds of Dharma Videos – How to Find What You Need
After nine years and 600+ videos, I’ve built a fully searchable index of the entire channel, organized by topic, sutta reference, and keyword search. Whether you’re new to the channel or a longtime viewer, the catalog is designed to help…
- Discussing Buddhism with My Friend Jon Aaron: a New Podcast!
Exciting news to report! Jon Aaron and I are releasing a new podcast entitled "Diggin' the Dharma". Jon is an Insight meditation teacher of mine, and a good friend. In this video we'll introduce ourselves and discuss our first meeting and…
- Fourth Anniversary Video: Top Five
It's the fourth anniversary of this channel Doug's Dharma on YouTube! To celebrate, I'll look back on several videos I found particularly interesting to make over the past year, and then we'll turn to the top five videos in terms of…
- How Long Should Dharma Videos Be?
I recently ran a poll on the Community tab of my channel asking how long you all preferred these videos to be. Here I'll discuss the results of that poll and some thoughts I have about the videos for 2021 and beyond!
- How Can I Help You?
How can I help you? In this video I'll discuss the ways I'm trying to provide aid for you in your understanding of early Buddhism, but I'm interested also in hearing other ideas from you!
- An ANNOUNCEMENT, new PROJECT!
Today's video is all about a fun announcement I have of a new project to teach the dharma. You all need longer-form material in addition to these YouTube videos. That means courses! I'm starting up the Online Dharma Institute to provide…
- Second Year Anniversary
It's hard to believe it's been two years already! I'll go over some of the developments we've been through over the past twelve months, and look ahead to some new ones. I'll also discuss the aims of this channel going forward. Thanks to…
- Patreon: a Buddhist Why and How
We'll discuss the role Patreon plays in this channel, why I've decided to use their platform model. We'll also discuss the relation of generosity to Buddhist practice both historically and in our own lives.
- First Year Anniversary!
Wow, it's hard to believe a year has already passed since publishing my first video on YouTube! In the interim we've had a busy time going through some of the dharma of early Buddhism, with a focus on contemporary practice and experience.…
- Q&A: Video Music and Nonself Vlogging
So I'll be asking you folks a question to start with, and then we'll consider the issue of doing a vlog while taking the Buddha's notion of non-self seriously. Are the two compatible or not?
- Q & A: Secular Monasticism and Choppy Videos
Mixing things up here, today we'll get into questions from a couple of viewers. One involves whether there is room for a kind of deep secular Buddhist practice akin to monasticism, and another deals with the way I've been editing these…
- Welcome to Doug's Secular Dharma!
Are you interested in helping foster a wiser, kinder, less stress-filled world? Here you'll find short videos about how to do that, with material from early Buddhism, secularism, and related topics. There will be a mix of introductory…