Emily Horn is joined by renowned meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg to share reflections on her beloved teacher, Dipa Ma , a Bangladeshi meditation master, who was known for her extraordinary concentration, profound insight, and unwavering kindness. Sharon recounts her personal experiences with Dipa Ma, highlighting her maternal yet fierce presence, her ability to see deep potential in her students, and her unique approach to integrating mindfulness into daily life. Episode Links : 🔗 Dharmaseed...
Mar 21, 2025•35 min•Season 5Ep. 7
In this episode of Our Beloved Teachers , dharma teacher Leigh Brasington reflects on his transformative experiences studying with Ven. Ayya Khema, one of his most influential teachers. Leigh shares how Ayya Khema's clarity, discipline, and groundbreaking teachings on meditation, including the jhānas, shaped his practice and teaching path. The conversation also delves into Ayya Khema's extraordinary life story and her pivotal contribution toward reviving the Theravāda fully ordained nun’s Sangha...
Jan 07, 2025•55 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined again by dharma teacher Trudy Goodman , founder of InsightLA , to share reflections on her beloved teacher, Kōbun Chino Otogawa . Kobun (February 1, 1938 – July 26, 2002), also known as Chino Otogawa Roshi, was a Japanese Zen priest who brought his unique and deeply compassionate teachings to America. Renowned for his unconventional approach, he emphasized practicing dharma within daily life, often blending traditional Zen wisdom with a quiet, everyday presence that...
Nov 18, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 5Ep. 5
In this episode of Buddhist Geeks, Brian Newman discusses his journey into deep jhāna meditation practice. He explores his training in the rigorous Pa-auk tradition, the challenges and breakthroughs he experienced, and the balance between traditional and more modern approaches to jhāna, ultimately advocating for a playful, less rigid approach to accessing these deep states of concentration. Episode Links : 👤 Brian Newman 🔗 Appamāda Viharī Meditation Center 👤 Sayalay Susīlā 👤 Pa-auk Sayadaw �...
Sep 16, 2024•45 min•Season 7Ep. 454
In the episode on " Technological Metamodernism ," Vince Fakhoury Horn and Stephen Reid discuss the intersection of technology, metamodernism, and the potential middle paths that navigate between techno-optimism or e/acc and eco-dystopianism or doomerism. They explore how emerging technologies can be aligned with deeper values, such as sovereignty, relationality, and wholeness, while also addressing the challenges of our current technological trajectory. Episode Links : 👤 StephenReid.net ✉️ St...
Aug 16, 2024•57 min•Ep. 453
In this episode of Buddhist Geeks, Vince Fakhoury Horn shares his experience of working with the meditation startup Jhourney , and raises concerns about their insufficient training and appropriation of Buddhist meditation practices, advocating for a more responsible and deeply informed approach to secularizing Jhāna meditation. Episode Links : 📝 The Second Generation of Mindfulness by Vince F. Horn 🔗 The Meditation Research Project 🔗 The Jhana.community See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com...
Jun 10, 2024•36 min•Season 7Ep. 452
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 Awakening by Judith...
Mar 11, 2024•40 min•Ep. 451
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://art19.com/privac...
Dec 28, 2023•52 min•Ep. 450
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 better support ea...
Dec 14, 2023•29 min•Season 5Ep. 4
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 leads to a sen...
Dec 05, 2023•38 min•Ep. 449
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 also touches ...
Oct 09, 2023•33 min•Ep. 448
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 Ewald...
Sep 13, 2023•44 min•Ep. 447
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 See Privacy Poli...
Aug 22, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 6Ep. 446
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 Links : 👤...
Apr 19, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 5Ep. 3
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 by Peter ...
Feb 22, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 5Ep. 2
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, and the connect...
Jan 23, 2023•15 min•Season 5Ep. 1
“‘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 Links : Thích N...
Aug 17, 2022•42 min•Ep. 445
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 ....
Jul 12, 2022•50 min•Ep. 444
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 for a week-lo...
Jul 06, 2022•48 min•Ep. 443
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 reali...
Apr 06, 2022•37 min•Ep. 442
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 Times: 10...
Jan 12, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 441
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 David Chapman 📄...
Jan 03, 2022•27 min•Ep. 440
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 commun...
Dec 20, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 439
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 William (Bil...
Dec 03, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 438
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 fully to the experien...
Nov 03, 2021•18 min•Season 6Ep. 437
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 : 👤 Vince Fakh...
Oct 27, 2021•22 min•Ep. 436
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 California Privacy...
Oct 20, 2021•40 min•Season 6Ep. 435
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 California Pri...
Oct 02, 2021•53 min•Ep. 434
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 .
Sep 27, 2021•50 min•Season 6Ep. 433
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 to...
Sep 13, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 432
