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Embodying Nondual Awakening with Judith Blackstone

March 11, 2024 14:00 - 40 minutes - 37 MB

In this episode Ryan Oelke chats with Judith Blackstone, contemporary spiritual teacher, psychotherapist, and founder of The Realization Process, and author of her latest book, The Fullness of the Ground: A Guide to Embodied Awakening.  They discuss a variety of aspects of what it means to embody nonduality, including different views on nonduality, how to practice and live a path of embodied nondual awakening.  Episode Links: 📖 The Fullness of the Ground: A Guide to Embodied Awake...

Embodying Nondual Awakening

March 11, 2024 14:00 - 40 minutes - 37 MB

In this episode Ryan Oelke chats with Judith Blackstone, contemporary spiritual teacher, psychotherapist, and founder of The Realization Process, and author of her latest book, The Fullness of the Ground: A Guide to Embodied Awakening.  They discuss a variety of aspects of what it means to embody nonduality, including different views on nonduality, how to practice and live a path of embodied nondual awakening.  Episode Links: 📖 The Fullness of the Ground: A Guide to Embodied Awake...

Several Ways to Meditate with Vince F Horn

December 28, 2023 20:01 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MB

In this episode, recorded during a Buddhist Geeks Retreat, Vince Fakhoury Horn teachings on several ways to meditate, including Concentration, Mindfulness, Heartfulness, Inquiry, Awareness, Embodiment, and Imaginal forms of practice. Each approach to meditation leads to different results, even as the ultimate goal remains the same, which is to realize the essential nature of mind, and be able to embrace the ongoing journey of exploration and growth. See Privacy Policy at https://ar...

Spring Washam on Harriet Tubman

December 14, 2023 15:00 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MB

In this Our Beloved Teachers episode Emily Horn speaks with Spring Washam about her relationship with Harriet Tubman, and the teachings she has received from her. Spring speaks about the importance of faith and courage in navigating challenging times and the connection to the unseen world, while emphasizing that Harriet Tubman is not just an ancestor for African Americans, but for everyone. She encourages people to tap into the strength and resilience that Harriet represents to bett...

Homemaking Dharma with Emily W Horn

December 05, 2023 20:35 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MB

In her talk titled "Homemaking Dharma," Emily Horn discusses the process of creating a spiritual home, which involves working with heartbreak, grief, and our shadow aspects. She emphasizes the importance of understanding our spiritual story and incorporating elements of our ethnic and cultural backgrounds into our practice. This journey towards wholeness requires the practice of mindfulness and love, and although it can be messy and require rumbling with our stories, it ultimately l...

Contemplating the Anomalous with Vince F Horn

October 09, 2023 14:00 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MB

This talk, titled "Contemplating the Anomalous" was given by Vince Fakhoury Horn on a Buddhist Geeks retreat in July, 2023. It explores the stages of a paradigm shift in understanding, going from ignoring the anomalous, to encountering anomalies and experiencing resistance, to exploration, and finally toward genuine transformation. Using examples from both Science and Meditation Vince attempts to illustrate the learning process as it’s experienced from each point of view. This talk ...

Why Meditatewith.ai?

September 13, 2023 12:00 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MB

Meditatewith.ai is a web app prototype, aimed at demonstrating the possibility of learning Multiplayer Meditation–an out-loud, social, interactive, & trauma-informed protocol–with an AI partner first. The purpose of the company behind this prototype, Interbeing Inc, is to improve the mental health and well-being of all humans using interpersonal meditation practices. In this episode, recorded during an event inside the Buddhist Geeks Network, co-founders Vince Fakhoury Horn & Chris ...

The Vimalakīrti Sūtra with Kenneth Folk

August 22, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 55.5 MB

The Vimalakīrti Sūtra is a Mahayana Buddhist text from the 2nd century CE that explores the nature of enlightenment and the teachings of the Buddha. In this contemporary commentary on the Vimalakīrti Sūtra, Pragmatic Dharma teacher Kenneth Folk shares his personal understanding of what he refers to as “a magical spell.” Episode Links: Watch the Video Version of this Talk on Youtube Kenneth Folk Dharma The Vimalakīrti Sūtra, translated by Burton Watson Pragmatic Dharma Training ...

Kenneth Folk on Bill Hamilton

April 19, 2023 19:03 - 1 hour - 62.6 MB

Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined by long-time teacher, Kenneth Folk, to share about his beloved teacher, Bill Hamilton, who American dharma teacher Shinzen Young referred to as "an unsung hero of Western Mindfulness." Bill was an enigmatic dharma teacher who practiced in the Insight-Theravada tradition. He was the founder of the Dharma Seed library, did more than 7 years of silent retreat practice, and wrote an excellent contemporary dharma book called "Saints & Psychopaths." Episode ...

Trudy Goodman on Seungsahn

February 22, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 59.2 MB

Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined by dharma teacher Trudy Goodman, founder of InsightLA, to share reflections on her beloved teacher, Seungsahn. Seungsahn Haengwon (Sungsan Haeng'weon Daeseonsa, August 1, 1927 – November 30, 2004), born Duk-In Lee, was a Korean Seon master of the Jogye Order and founder of the international Kwan Um School of Zen. Episode Links: 👤 Trudy Goodman 👤 Seungsahn 📺 Bob Newhart Therapy: Stop It! 👤 Maha Ghosananda 🎧 Zen Predator 📖 Sex in the Forbidden Zone...

Vince Fakhoury Horn on Our Beloved Teachers

January 23, 2023 15:00 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MB

In this episode, hosted by Vince Fakhoury Horn, we kick off a new series called Our Beloved Teachers. In this episode Vince explains how this a new kind of community podcast series, aimed at exploring the true nature of the teacher-student relationship, while preserving the oral history of BuddhaDharma, in the digital era. We call it a "community podcast series" because anyone can submit a recording to the series–all you need are the production skills to pull off the recording, ...

This Great Network of Interbeing, with Vince F Horn

August 17, 2022 12:00 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MB

“‘To be’ is to inter-be.” – Thích Nhất Hạnh In this episode–taken from a Dharma Talk at the Garrison Institute in 2022–Vince Fakhoury Horn teaches on the complexity of Interbeing, looking at "it" from 3 distinct perspectives: Interbeing within Ourselves Interbeing with Others Interbeing inside Nature Taken together, these three form a great network of Interbeing, one which opens us to the self-similar & fractal nature of interdependence. At every scale, we inter-are. Episode ...

Relax And You Will Know, with Emily W Horn

July 12, 2022 15:15 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MB

Emily West Horn teaches that we can learn to apply both mindfulness & heartfulness toward liberating ourselves from the "trance of unworthiness." What do you most want to realize? Relax, and you will know. Episode Links: 👤 Emily West Horn 📖 The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology by Jack Kornfield See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Magic and the Four Immeasurables, with Vince F Horn

July 06, 2022 12:13 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MB

In most modern contexts the topic of magic is taboo, because it isn’t Rational. Here, Vince Fakhoury Horn makes the claim that magic can also be understood and practiced in a Transrational way. He does this by unpacking several perspectives on magic, and then links those with the Buddhist teachings on the open heart: The Four Immeasurables. This episode was recorded during a recent Buddhist Geeks Retreat on Heart Magic. Join us from August 3–10, 2022 at the Garrison Institute in NY...

Buddhism & Aliens, with Stuart Davis

April 06, 2022 12:00 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MB

We're joined in this episode by Writer-Director-Actor-Comedian-Songwriter and run of the mill fucked up human, Stuart Davis, as he shares his deep experience of navigating what is generally referred to as "the phenomenon." Both in his work as the host of the Artists & Aliens Podcast and as the convener of The Experiencer Group–a virtual learning community for people who've had anomalous experiences–Stuart is helping people confront and confer with the high strangeness of our shared...

We Were Made For These Times, with Kaira Jewel Lingo

January 12, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 61.1 MB

In this episode of Buddhist Geeks, Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined in dialogue with Kaira Jewel Lingo, mindfulness meditation teacher, mentor, and author of the recently released book, "We Were Made For These Times". Here they discuss the unique times of peril and opportunity that humanity current faces, and how the teachings on equanimity, or inclusiveness, might just be the only thing that we can reliably fall back on. Episode Links: 👤 Kaira Jewel Lingo 📖 "We Were Made For These ...

MetaSangha Matters w/ Charlie Awberry, Jared Janes, & David Chapman

January 03, 2022 16:54 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MB

In the 2nd part of our conversation with the Evolving Ground crew, we talk about the importance of comparing and contrasting what we're up to in our respective Sanghas. We explore some of the obvious overlaps between Evolving Ground and Buddhist Geeks, in terms of our mutual commitment to meta-systematicity, bringing up the tantalizing question of why MetaSangha–a Sangha of Sanghas–matters today. Episode Links: 🔗 Evolving Ground 🔗 Buddhist Geeks Network 📄 The Cofounders by Davi...

Evolving Ground w/ Charlie Awberry, Jared Janes, & David Chapman

December 20, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 58.4 MB

In 2020 Charlie Awberry & Jared Janes came together to start a new kind of Vajrayana Sangha, called Evolving Ground. In this conversation, Vince Horn, was joined by both Charlie & Jared, as well as by Charlie's partner David Chapman–who has been becoming more involved in the project as of late–to explore what they've been up to this past year. In addition, they discuss some of the similarities between what is happening in Buddhist Geeks and with Evolving Ground, both of which are ...

Dharma Lineages in the 21st Century w/ James Landoli & Daniel Ingram

December 03, 2021 01:33 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

In this episode of Buddhist Geeks, we're re-sharing a conversation that happened on the Meta-Perspective show, hosted by James Landoli, in which James invited Vince F Horn and Daniel Ingram into a far-ranging dialogue, exploring some of the meta-perspectives and real human complexity that goes along with discussing dharma lineage in the 21st century. Episode Links: 📺 Meta-Perspective 👤 Daniel Ingram 🔗 The Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium 🎧 Shinzen Young on Remembering...

The Best & Worst Students in the History of the World, with Kenneth Folk

November 03, 2021 14:00 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MB

In this dharma talk–taken from a Pragmatic Dharma Retreat–Kenneth Folk speaks about Bahiya, the best student in the history of the world, and about the worst student in the history of the world, none other than the Buddha himself. At the end, Kenneth leads this 4-part practice: 1) Inventory - Ask yourself: is there any unpleasant tension in the body? "Yes, there's tension in my neck, forehead, arm pits, mid-back, right hip, etc." 2) Release tension consciously 3) Surrender fu...

The 2nd Great Iteration of Buddhism, with Vince F Horn

October 27, 2021 14:00 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MB

In this dharma teaching, given to a cohort of teachers-in-training, Vince F. Horn gives a broad strokes introduction to the 2nd Great Turning, or Iteration, of Buddhism, known as Mahayana Buddhism. Vince speaks about the 2nd Iteration's emphasis on emptiness (sunyata), the understanding of emptiness as interdependence, and the two equal wings of liberation: emptiness & compassion. Finally, he explores the primary ideal of the Mahayana tradition, the Bodhisattva. Episode Links: 👤...

One by One as They Occurred, with Kenneth Folk

October 20, 2021 12:00 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MB

In this dharma teaching / guided meditation–given during a Pragmatic Dharma Retreat in 2018–Kenneth Folk re-enacts the Anupada Sutta, an early Buddhist text in which the Buddha recounts a tale of Sāriputta moving through each of the 8 jhanas (meditative absorptions), completing the series with the attainment of nibanna. May you awaken while contemplating these instructions! Episode Links: 👤 Kenneth Folk 📜 The Anupada Sutta See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Cal...

Dharmas & DAOs, with Kevin Owocki

October 02, 2021 12:40 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MB

Kevin Owocki, founder of GitCoin–a decentralized platform & organization focused on building and funding the open web–joins Vince Horn co-founder of Buddhist Geeks, to explore the potential of bringing together the world of Dharma and the world of DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations). Episode Links: 🔗 GitCoin 📄 What is Web 3.0? 📄 Decentralized autonomous organization 📄 NFTs, explained 💡 Join the SanghaDAO Group See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Cali...

The Gradual and Sudden Tracks, with Vince F Horn

September 27, 2021 14:00 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MB

In this pragmatic dharma retreat talk Vince Fakhoury Horn explores Meditation Track A–the gradual track–and Meditation Track B–the sudden track. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Gradual and Sudden Tracks, with Vince Horn

September 27, 2021 14:00 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MB

In this pragmatic dharma retreat talk Vince Fakhoury Horn explores Meditation Track A–the gradual track–and Meditation Track B–the sudden track. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How to Find your People in an Unjust World, with Kate Johnson

September 13, 2021 00:07 - 1 hour - 64.9 MB

In this conversation, Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined by Buddhist meditation teacher Kate Johnson, author of Radical Friendship, a newly released book which found its roots in a talk that Kate gave in 2013 at an in-person Buddhist Geeks Conference, entitled Waking Up to Power & Privilege in Our Communities. Vince & Kate speak about a variety of topics related to practicing dharma and living together in an unjust world. Episode Links: 👤 Kate Johnson 📖 Radical Friendship: Seven Ways ...

Jhanas and Ñanas, with Kenneth Folk

August 20, 2021 14:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MB

In this talk, recorded during a Pragmatic Dharma Retreat, Kenneth Folk lays out a meta-system for understanding the different understandings of deep Jhana or meditative absorption and their relationship to the Theravada Buddhist system, the progress of insight knowledges (aka Ñanas). memorable links: 💬 "So we could call this olympic level, nut job jhana." – Kenneth Folk 💬 "The insight knowledges are jhanic states." – Kenneth Folk episode links: 🔗 Kenneth Folk Dharma 🎙 Meditati...

A Guided Tour of the Four Jhanas, with Kenneth Folk

August 16, 2021 14:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MB

In this special guided meditation, recorded during a Pragmatic Dharma Retreat, Kenneth Folk does a masterful job of pointing out the four progressive stages of meditative absorption, colloquially known as jhana. For best results, we suggest finding a place to listen to this episode, where you can remain undistracted. episode links: Kenneth Folk Mindfulness Retreats Online memorable quotes: "Like a skilled wine taster, one day you will learn to recognize these flavors." – Kennet...

Meditating in The Goldilocks Zone, with Vince Horn

July 28, 2021 14:00 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MB

In this dharma talk, Vince Fakhoury Horn talks about the Goldilocks Principle as it's applied to meditation. He illustrates this Goldilocks Zone–just the right amount–by talking about a spectrum between Concentration and Investigation. How do find the middle way, i.e. the Goldilocks Zone, in our own practice? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Falling in Love With What Is, with Noliwe Alexander

July 05, 2021 14:00 - 28 minutes - 26 MB

Teaching by Noliwe Alexander, given during a Mindfulness Retreat Online. This Open Source Dharma content is offered using a Creative Commons by attribution 4.0 license. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Evolving Dharma, with Tasshin Fogleman & Vince Fakhoury Horn

June 09, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 81.3 MB

In this episode of the Buddhist Geeks Podcast Vince Horn is interviewed by Tasshin Foggleman. The episode originally appeared on Tasshin's Reach Truth Podcast, and is now airing here on Buddhist Geeks. During the interview Tasshin asks Vince to share about the evolution of the Buddhist Geeks organization, including an in-depth exploration of Transparent Generosity, Holacracy, & Open Source Dharma–three of the elements of the Buddhist Geeks organization that make it particularly ...

A Compassionate Conversation, with Gabriel Menegale Wilson

April 14, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 80.7 MB

In this episode Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined by Gabriel Menegale Wison, one of the authors of the recently released book, “Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart.” In this dialogue, we explore Gabriel’s background as an Integral Zen practitioner & Facilitator, looking specifically at how he brings the art of conversation into difficult areas of relationship. Our conversation centers particularly around how to have difficult conversations related to raci...

Love & Rage

January 26, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 66.5 MB

In this episode Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined in dialogue with Lama Rod Owens, author of the newly released book, Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation. Memorable Quotes “To begin with this is not a mindfulness book on how to bypass anger and focus on happiness. Nor is this a book about using any other spiritual path to transform the nature of anger into something more profound or transcendent. This book is about facing our anger and welcoming it as a teacher and friend so it can ...

Love & Rage, with Lama Rod Owens

January 26, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 66.5 MB

In this episode Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined in dialogue with Lama Rod Owens, author of the newly released book, Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation. Memorable Quotes “To begin with this is not a mindfulness book on how to bypass anger and focus on happiness. Nor is this a book about using any other spiritual path to transform the nature of anger into something more profound or transcendent. This book is about facing our anger and welcoming it as a teacher and friend so it can ...

Brightmind 🤝 Better World, with Toby Sola

December 14, 2020 12:00 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MB

In this episode Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined in dialogue with CEO and Head Teacher at the popular meditation app Brightmind, Toby Sola.  Memorable Quotes "The broader mission of Brightmind is to help you establish positive feedback between your meditative practice and your ability to make the world a better place." - Toby Sola Episode Links 📱 Brightmind Meditation 👤 Toby on Twitter 🔗 Monastic Academy 👤 Shinzen Young 👤 Soryu Forall 🔗 Tom Brown Jr.’s Tracker School 🔗 Forte ...

The Fascism this Time, with Theo Horesh

October 15, 2020 13:33 - 1 hour - 66.2 MB

In this timely episode–released just weeks before the 2020 US Election–host Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined by human rights advocate, public intellectual, and old friend Theo Horesh.  Theo is a long-time meditator, was one of the earliest guests on Buddhist Geeks, and is author of several books, including the one that serves as the basis for this conversation: “The Fascism this Time : And the Global Future of Democracy.”  During this conversation Vince & Theo explore what Fascism is–b...

The Reality of Materiality, with Greg Thomas

October 07, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 63.3 MB

In this episode Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined in dialogue with journalist, educator, & scholar Greg Thomas to meditate together on race. Greg’s work is informed by Integral Theory, the philosophies of Albert Murray and Ralph Ellison, and draws upon the rich history of the African American experience and Jazz. In this dialogue, Greg shares his reflections on race, from an integral perspective, exploring the potential for liberation–especially from racial ignorance & animus–on persona...

Deconstructing Decentralised Organizing, with Richard D. Bartlett

September 30, 2020 13:46 - 1 hour - 60.1 MB

In this episode, Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined in conversation with Richard D. Bartlett. Rich is the author of Patterns for Decentralised Organising and a contributing author for Better Work Together. He is a co-founder of Loomio and The Hum. He is a Director and longstanding member of Enspiral. In finding where convergence resides among them, Vince and Rich explore many interesting topics including Decentralised Organising, Microsolidarity, Fractal Narcissism, and the Occupy Moveme...

Meditating on Race, with Emily Horn

July 28, 2020 17:01 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MB

In this episode, Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined by long-time partner, and Teaching Lead of Buddhist Geeks, Emily Horn, to meditate together on race. They discuss the unique opportunity for transformation presenting itself to white people, and share some of their personal stories regarding racial conditioning, and how/why this largely invisible conditioning makes this conversation on difference so difficult to engage in.   Memorable Quotes “I know that trust is earned, I can’t just ...

Regenerating Both Culture & Land, with Jason Snyder

June 03, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 79.7 MB

In this episode, Vince Horn is joined in conversation with Jason Snyder, PhD. Co-host of the Both/And Podcast and an adjunct lecturer at ASU’s Department of Sustainable Development, Jason joins Vince in a sit-down conversation, where they discuss the topics of memetic mediation, metamodernism, integral theory, responding to the meta-crisis, sensemaking and more. Memorable Quotes: "We are all complicit in history whether we like it or not. Both the good parts and the bad parts. I t...

Mainstreaming Knowledge of the Stages of Insight, with Daniel M. Ingram

May 18, 2020 15:13 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MB

In this episode we’re joined again by meditator & medical doctor Daniel M. Ingram, to discuss his current efforts at helping mainstream knowledge of the common patterns of experience that unfold during contemplative practice–commonly referred to as “the stages of insight” in the early Buddhist tradition–so that this knowledge can become integrated into our modern medical systems. Episode Links: 👤 Daniel M. Ingram 🔗 The Dharma Overground 📃 The Progress of Insight 📃 What is Explo...

You've Got to Remember that God is an Idiot, with Vinay Gupta

April 24, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 81.5 MB

From practicing hindu tantra with a guru he met at a new age bookstore in Chicago, to building open source hexayurts on the playa of burning man, to helping launch the second biggest crypto-network, Vinay Gupta is a man on a mission. Bringing a Vaderesque approach to spiritual, social, cultural, & engineering topics, Vinay offers an ultra-compelling apocoloptimistic vision of the future. -Vince Fakhoury Horn Memorable Quotes: "Social problems can be fixed with social change, and e...

An Open Source Economy of Abundance, with Marcin Jakubowski

March 25, 2020 20:21 - 1 hour - 55.2 MB

The founder of Open Source Ecology, Marcin Jakubowski, shares his journey of going from being a PhD student in Fusion Physics to meditating daily & building the modular groundwork for an open source economy of abundance.   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

An Open Source Economy of Abundance with Marcin Jakubowski

March 25, 2020 20:21 - 1 hour - 55.2 MB

The founder of Open Source Ecology, Marcin Jakubowski, shares his journey of going from being a PhD student in Fusion Physics to meditating daily & building the modular groundwork for an open source economy of abundance.  

Everything the Same, Everything Different, with Diane Musho Hamilton

March 11, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 62.2 MB

In this episode, Vince Horn is joined in dialogue, once again, by Diane Musho Hamilton–Zen teacher, professional meditator, and Integral facilitator. The conversation begins with Vince's reflections on an Integral Facilitator Training that he attended with Diane, where a bulk of the training centered around facilitating small group conversations around issues related to differences of identity. After discussing a number of topics that are often taken up in the Social Justice movem...

Eco-Meta-Dharma, with David Loy

February 12, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 74.4 MB

In this episode, Vince Horn is joined in conversation by long-time mentor and friend, David Loy, to explore his latest on, "EcoDharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis." Their discussion centers around how this EcoDharma work relates to our current exploration of Metadharma, which we describe as any approach to dharma practice that intentionally seeks to respond to the overlapping crises that humanity now faces. Quotes: "The real problem of humanity is the following...

A Meditation Coalition, with JoAnna Hardy

January 13, 2020 12:00 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MB

In this episode, Emily Horn speaks with Insight meditation teacher and co-founder of the newly established Meditation Coalition of Los Angeles, JoAnna Hardy. In their conversation, they explore the origins, values, & current activities of this new experiment in community. Here at Buddhist Geeks we see the Meditation Coalition as part of larger emerging trend of decentralizing dharma communities. Check out our episode on the SF Dharma Collective to hear another example of a sangha t...

Six Ways to Meditate, with Vincent Horn

January 01, 2020 15:00 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MB

What practice(s) should I do? When should I switch-up my practice? How do I practice well, with so many choices available? Recorded during a week-long Buddhist Geeks Retreat, Vince Horn addresses these super-common questions by introducing Six Ways to Meditate. The purpose of this meditative meta-model is to give freelance meditators and DIY practitioners a way to orient to the vast diversity of techniques available in the Buddhist wisdom tradition. Memorable Quotes: "The untraine...

Yum, Yum, Yum with Ram Dass

December 23, 2019 17:06 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MB

In this episode originally recorded in 2018 at the "Waking Up with Psychedelics" event in Los Angeles, Trudy Goodman spoke with one of the pioneers of Western spirituality and psychedelics, Ram Dass.  We're sharing this now to honor the recent passing of Baba Ram Dass, and appreciate his tremendous impact on popular, spiritual, & psychedelic culture. We hope you enjoy this love bomb! ❤️💣 Episode links: 🎧 Existential Medicine, A recording of Part 1 of the same Waking Up with Psy...

Toward a Fourth Turning, Pt. 2, with Ken Wilber

November 04, 2019 12:00 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MB

In this latest addition to the Metadharma series, Ryan Oelke is joined by philosopher Ken Wilber to explore what a fourth turning of Buddhism looks like, what it includes, and why it’s needed.  "The new Buddha is not going to be the Sangha, but the unification of the Buddha, Sangha, and Dharma in a single ongoing nondual Awareness and Awakening.” - Ken Wilber In Part 1, Ken discusses the evolution of Buddhism through the three turnings, what each turning included and was missing, ...

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