Buddhist Geeks

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 Syndrome? 

📃 The Varieties of Religious Experience

🔗 Consciousness Hacking

🔗 Kathryn “Katy” Devaney

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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 engineering problems have to be fixed with better technology. And most of what's wrong with capitalism is engineering limits not social limits, and we get very confused about this." - Vinay Gupta

Episode Links:

👤 Vinay Gupta

🔗 Mattereum

🔗 The Hexayurt Project

🔗 Industrialisation

🔗 Haidakhan Babaji

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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.  

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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 Integral perspective on these topics, the conversation turned toward the role of the Teacher, and on transmission, hierarchy, embodiment, feedback, and projection.

Memorable Quotes:

“I found that rather than trying to teach stage models to groups, that I like to invoke them into models.” - Diane Musho Hamilton

“We don’t challenge basketball coaches the way we challenge spiritual teachers.” - Diane Musho Hamilton

“Every moment of adulation is followed by a great disappointment.” - Diane Musho Hamilton

Episode Links:

👤 Diane Musho Hamilton

🔗 Ten Directions, Integral Facilitator Training

📄 Everything the Same, Everything Different by Diane Hamilton

📺 Saturday Night Live: Dinner Discussion

🔗 Two Arrows Zen

🔗 Black Elk

🔗 Worldcentric

📺 Future Thinkers Interviews with Ken Wilber

🔗 The Five Stages of Grief

📖 Compassionate Conversations by Diane Musho Hamilton, Gabriel Wilson, & Kimberly Loh

📺 The Role and Importance of the Teacher by Ken McLeod 

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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 paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology." - E.O. Wilson

"I see social evolution as a continuation of biological evolution." - David Loy

"The Ecological Crisis is Earth’s way of telling us, 'Grow up or get out of the way.'" - David Loy 

Links:

👤 David Loy 

📖 EcoDharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis by David Loy

🎧 The Metadharma Series 

🎧 The Meta-Crisis Is a Human Development Crisis, Daniel Thorson & Zak Stein

📄 How to Be an Ecosattva by David Loy

📄 Differentiation of the Cultural Value Spheres by Ken Wilber

📖 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

📄 Dualistic cosmology 

📖 The Structure of World History by Karatani Kojin

📄 Transparent Generosity 

📄 Capitalism 

📺 Jeremy Rifkin on the Fall of Capitalism and the Internet of Things 

📖 Syntheism: Creating God in the Internet Age by Alexander Bard & Jan Söderqvist

🔗 Open Source Ecology 

📺 Civilization starter kit by Marcin Jakubowski

🔗 Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center 

📖 Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken

🔗 Extinction Rebellion 

🔗 Extinction Rebellion Buddhists 

🔗 Sunrise Movement

🔗 350.org

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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 seeking to decentralize traditional power structures.

Quotes:

“What is this Dharma?” - Emily Horn

“Everybody we come into contact with, if we’re awake enough and really paying attention, whether we agree with them or not, we’re going to learn something from them.” - JoAnna Hardy 

Links:

🔗 Meditation Coalition

🔗 JoAnna Hardy

🔗 Spirit Rock Meditation Center

📄 Ken McLeod

📄 Against the Stream Closes Doors as Investigation Finds Misconduct by Founder Noah Levine

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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 hard time gathering and collecting its full potential in one place.” - @VincentHorn

"If we can see what the elements of meditation are, then perhaps we can recombine those elements in new ways." - @VincentHorn 

Episode Links:

🔗 Buddhist Geeks Retreats

🔗 Responsive Meditation Guide

📄 Six Ways to Meditate

📄 Concentration Meditation

📄 The Feedback Loop of Concentration

📄 On Selecting a Meditation Object

📄 Kammaṭṭhāna

📄 Mindfulness Meditation

📄 Heartfulness Meditation

📄 The Brahmaviharas

📄 Inquiry Meditation

📄 Awareness Meditation

📄 Embodiment Meditation

📖 Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

🎧 Trauma and the Unbound Body with Judith Blackstone

📄Malidoma Patrice Somé teaches the earth burial practice

📄Vipassanā

📖 The Paradox of Choice

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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 Event

📄 The New Wave of Psychedelics in Buddhist Practice by Matteo Pistono

🔗 RamDass.org

🔗 InsightLA

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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 subsequent turning provided. In a fourth turning, Ken speaks to the need of two main additions to the practice of Buddhism: growing up and cleaning up (waking up already being long present in the Buddhist tradition). 

In Part 2, Ken responds to how a fourth turning of Buddhism can more effectively respond to the meta-crises of the world and how practice can evolve as a response to the complexity and challenges of the world. 

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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 subsequent turning provided. In a fourth turning, Ken speaks to the need of two main additions to the practice of Buddhism: growing up and cleaning up (waking up already being long present in the Buddhist tradition). 

In Part 2, Ken responds to how a fourth turning of Buddhism can more effectively respond to the meta-crises of the world and how practice can evolve as a response to the complexity and challenges of the world. 

Episode Links

📖 The Religion of Tomorrow by Ken Wilber

🔗 The Three Turnings of Buddhism

🔗 Integral Life

🔗 The Ken Show

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