I’m overjoyed to share this interview with my dharma brother Bodhipakṣa, founder of the Wildmind Community. As you’ll learn, he’s got a lot going on, but he found the time to spend more than an hour with me on Zoom today. His book The Heart’s Awakening: 108 Steps to a Life of Love came out eralier this month. His next one, to be released in the coming months by Wisdom Publications, is titled Sit. It offers his method for keeping to a daily meditation practice, with followup emails to keep you on track.

Oh, and don’t forget his websites Fake Buddha Quotes and Real Buddha Quotes.

I hope you enjoy our discussion. I did. Here’s the Zoom summary with some editing from me: ....

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The Path to Joy Book Club

With the eBook and paperback versions of A Buddhist Path to Joy off to a good start and the audiobook scheduled for release on November 10, I’ve scheduled a book club meeting for Wednesday, November 19, startying at 1 pm East Coast US time. As with most book clubs, there no need to have read or even bought A Buddhist Path to Joy. Just attend ready to discuss a path for Eastern-influenced spirituality in the West—maybe a jazzy path.

We’ll have a brief meditation, a few remarks about this book and my next, and (I hope) a free-flowing discussion. Please register here, and I look forward to seeing you then, if not sooner.

Two chapters of the audiobook include discussions between AI platforms and me, but no automated voices were used. The part of the AI platforms is played by voice actor Robin McAlpine. It sounds much better that way them it would if I played both roles. A lot better.

A Buddhist Path to Joy: The New Middle Way Expanded Edition by Mel Pine is available via online bookstores worldwide.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit melpine.substack.com