In the third of a weekly series of dharma talks, "Meditation and Society", Dr. Adam Lobel discusses the Shambhala Buddhist teaching of basic goodness and how it poses a challenge to the way we usually understand suffering.

Adam Lobel, Ph.D. Harvard University, is a scholar of philosophy and religion and a longtime meditation practitioner and teacher. His research focuses on meditation practice and pedagogy in the Great Perfection (Dzogchen) tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and modern phenomenology, and he is active in ecological and social justice movements. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA with his wife and two sons.