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 communities that are striving to approach things from a meta-systematic point of view.

Episode Links:

🔗 Evolving Ground

🔗 Evolving Ground Roles

🐥 Evolving Ground on Twitter

🔗 Meaningness

👤 Robert Kegan

🔗 Buddhist Geeks Network

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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 (Bill) Hamilton

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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 experience

4) Releasing & surrendering are last ditch efforts to control. Things are as they are, "in the sensed is only the sensed."

Episode Links:

• Kenneth Folk
• Bahiya Sutta

Memorable Quotes:

"Mara doesn't get to have an opinion about that." – Kenneth Folk

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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 Fakhoury Horn

📄 Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma

👤 Judith Simmer-Brown

👤 Nāgārjuna

📄 Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (Root Verses on the Middle Way)

🔗 Bodhicitta

🔗 The 10 Fetters in Early Buddhism

👤 Śāriputra

Memorable Quotes:

"Compassion is the movement of emptiness." - Joseph Goldstein

"The alarming fact is that any realization of depth carries a terrible burden: those who are allowed to see are simultaneously saddled with the obligation to communicate that vision in no uncertain terms: that is the bargain. You were allowed to see the truth under the agreement that you would communicate it to others (that is the ultimate meaning of the bodhisattva vow). And therefore, if you have seen, you simply must speak out. Speak out with compassion, or speak out with angry wisdom, or speak out with skillful means, but speak out you must." – Ken Wilber

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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

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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

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In this pragmatic dharma retreat talk Vince Fakhoury Horn explores Meditation Track A–the gradual track–and Meditation Track B–the sudden track.

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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 Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World by Kate Johnson

🎙The Dharma of Difference, with Kate Johnson

📺 Waking Up to Power & Privilege in Our Communities, with Kate Johnson

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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 Goldilocks Zone, with Vince F. Horn

📄 The Progress of Insight by The Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw

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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

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