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 🎙 Meditating in the Gol...
Aug 20, 2021•32 min•Season 6Ep. 431
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." – Kenneth Folk See Priv...
Aug 16, 2021•42 min•Season 6Ep. 430
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 ....
Jul 28, 2021•49 min•Season 6Ep. 429
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 ....
Jul 05, 2021•28 min•Ep. 428
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 unique. This...
Jun 09, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 427
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 racial ide...
Apr 14, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 4Ep. 426
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 help us to ben...
Jan 26, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 4Ep. 425
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 Labs 📖 Sacred E...
Dec 14, 2020•53 min•Ep. 424
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–both histori...
Oct 15, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 423
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 personal, cu...
Oct 07, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 4Ep. 422
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 Movement. Memorabl...
Sep 30, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 421
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 put up a sticker...
Jul 28, 2020•55 min•Season 4Ep. 420
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 think that spea...
Jun 03, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Season 3Ep. 419
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 Exploding Head...
May 18, 2020•39 min•Ep. 418
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 engineeri...
Apr 24, 2020•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 417
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 ....
Mar 25, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 416
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 movement, and an In...
Mar 11, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 3Ep. 415
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: we have pale...
Feb 12, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Season 3Ep. 414
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 that is se...
Jan 13, 2020•27 min•Ep. 413
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 untrained mind has a ...
Jan 01, 2020•57 min•Ep. 412
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 Psychedelics ...
Dec 23, 2019•42 min•Season 2Ep. 411
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, and what each s...
Nov 04, 2019•46 min•Season 3Ep. 410
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, and what each s...
Oct 28, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Season 3Ep. 409
In this latest addition to the Metadharma series, Vince Horn is joined by Michael W. Taft to explore the (meta)reasoning around Metadharma. Why do we need another Dharma? What does Metadharma respond to that Modern and Postmodern forms of Dharma haven’t? What do we need to jettison in order for a genuine Metadharma to emerge? And how does Metadharma relate to the very real social crises we face, including the ecological emergency, runaway capitalism, an over-dependence on rationality, growing ra...
Aug 01, 2019•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 408
"Climate change", as a term, no longer captures the real danger that climate scientists say that we as a species, along with our fellow creatures, face today. Already the impacts of climate change have turned into a genuine ecological crisis. A growing group of people are asking out loud, if the recent string of dire government-backed climate reports are too conservative to accurately describe the real dangers ahead of us. What if, in fact, we are on the fast track toward both an ecological &...
Jul 22, 2019•1 hr 24 min•Season 3Ep. 407
In this deep dive into the emerging territory of American Dharma , scholar-practitioner Ann Gleig joins with Buddhist Geeks host Vince Horn to explore a plurality of perspectives, some overlooked and marginalized, some debated for millennia. Over 2 hours of deep dialogical podcasting, Ann & Vince explore the larger territory of postmodernism in relation to American Dharma from multiple philosophical vantages, including the ‘post secular’, the ‘postcolonial’, and also in this conversation the...
Jul 11, 2019•2 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 406
In this episode Vince Horn kicks-off a new series on Buddhist Geeks on "Metadharma." Sharing his journey from working with integral philosopher Ken Wilber in the early aughts, to deconstructing grand metanarratives with inquiry meditation and developmental psychology, to returning back to a metaphilosophical orientation in recent years. This series, on Metadharma, will explore the ways that the three jewels of the Buddhist contemplative tradition, the Buddha, Dharma, & Sangha, may be underst...
Apr 29, 2019•46 min•Season 3Ep. 405
In this episode, Vince Horn is joined by Kathryn "Kati" Devaney, one of the founders of the newly formed student-led sangha, SF Dharma Collective . In addition to being practitioner, and community organizer, Kati is also a neuroscience researcher who has specialized on studying human visual attention. In this discussion Kati describes the origin story of the SF Dharma Collective and talks about what makes it an entirely new kind of sangha-experiment. A short note from Vince : After visiting the ...
Apr 10, 2019•57 min•Ep. 404
In this episode Ryan Oelke speaks with Judith Blackstone , a teacher in the contemporary fields of nondual realization and spiritual, relational, and somatic psychotherapy, about her new book, “ Trauma and the Unbound Body : The Healing Power of Fundamental Consciousness”. They chat about the connection between embodiment, nondual realization, and healing, and how all three help deepen one other. Ryan & Judith also discuss what fundamental consciousness is, how to attune to it in, the differ...
Mar 29, 2019•39 min•Ep. 403
I had the great delight of speaking with Oren Jay Sofer , just as he was fresh off a month-long silent retreat. The timing couldn't be better, as the bulk of what we discussed relates to silent retreat culture, both its strengths and limitations. We ended up discussing communication and social practice quite a bit as well, including touching on some of the practices that he teaches in his new book, " Say What you Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication ." I've known Oren now for a s...
Jan 09, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 402
