Buddhism

Feared as a violent outlaw in ancient India, Agulimla's life seemed beyond repair. But a quiet encounter on a forest path interrupted the momentum of harm and revealed a different possibility---one where responsibility begins after damage is done, and stopping matters even when the past cannot be undone.

In this episode, Harmonia tells the story of Chkyi Drnma, a 15th-century Tibetan princess who stepped out of the palace and into a life of fierce spiritual purpose. Recognized as the first female reincarnate lama-the Samding Dorje Phagmo-she challenged the assumptions of her time, revitalized nunneries, preserved vital teachings, and embodied a feminine dimension of wisdom rarely acknowledged in her era. Harmonia reflects on her courage, the cost of shedding an inherited identity, and the continuing struggle for women's spiritual authority today.

In this episode, Harmonia tells the story of Abutsu-bo, an aging former samurai who found his true purpose late in life on the remote, windswept shores of Sado Island. Through simple, repeated acts of care for an exiled teacher-acts that received no praise, no protection, and no reward-Abutsu-bo preserved teachings that might otherwise have been lost to history. His quiet devotion became a bridge for a spiritual movement in its most vulnerable hour, showing that endurance, loyalty, and love often reshape the world more profoundly than brilliance or acclaim.

In 1920s colonial Korea, surrounded by empire, ideology, and rising modern feminism, Kim Iryp was a voice everyone heard-poet, editor, provocateur. And then, one day, she walked away. Into the mountains. Into silence. In this episode, Harmonia recalls the woman who chose not to escape the world, but to seek something more honest than noise: a faith that could shape her soul without erasing it. What she found wasn't a retreat from life-it was a return to it.