Happy Life - A Wellness Podcast

By Zebediah Rice

It turns out when you strip away the religious and institutional covers from the ancient masters, you can see that they figured out how to feel happy, healthy and fulfilled and told us how to do it. T... more

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April 12, 2020 The Wavefront 🌊of Wonder
There is a traditional European understanding of Easter. And then there is the story of Jesus' life, ministry, crucifiction and resurrection that is emerging from the tireless work of scholars from around the world. It is this latter story that is shared in this episode.
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40min
April 05, 2020 Spiritual Freedom
It may seem like we are a victim of our circumstances and that we are subject to the emotions that arise within us. But the great masters of old like Buddha along with contemporary teachers like Victor Frankl, have shown us that we have a choice in the matter. It is we who manufacture our reality.
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45min
March 29, 2020The Purpose of Life 👨‍🌾
What is the purpose of life? The great masters throughout the ages have had varied answers:
Buddha: To end suffering ... and realize your true nature of non-self
Mohammed: To serve Allah's purpose via submission to the Divine Will
Jesus: To love god with all your heart, all your mind and all your soul
Krishna: Leave behind the material self and unlock bliss through devotional service to the Supreme
Judaism: Live the faith, fulfill God's commandments and be rewarded with a long, happy life

The underlying truth of these teachings about the purpose or meaning of a human life is unpacked using contemporary terminology accompanied by the stories of Gozan and Candide.

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47min
March 26, 2020 The Lab Notes 📓
The ancient masters left us their "lecture notes" but somehow most of the "lab notes" didn't make it through to today. In other words, we can read about "letting go" or "let Jesus" or "non-judgement, non-reaction and non-resistance" or "skillful means" or "submission" and so on but how do we put these concepts from the "lecture notes" into practice today? That is, what would the lab notes say? In this session I review being still, breaking habits, and letting go from the lecture notes and gave examples from the lab notes of the "Fire & the Well," "Split Screen," and the Hawaiian "Kala" techniques and unpacked how and why they work to release suffering and negative emotions.
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55min
February 23, 2020 Why Suffering Arises
Nothingness is a concept that comes up again and again. We see it in the Christian and Islamic traditions, we see it in the Buddhist and Taoist traditions. In this talk, we explore what this abstract concept means and how to put it into practice in everyday life using the Buddhist concepts of "skillful means" and the Four Noble Truths, the scientific concept of neuroplasticity, the difference between wanting, willing, having, being & non-being, and the powers associated with different levels of consciousness or chakras)
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58min
February 10, 2020 Kalyanamitra Group Discussion (Replay)
The first in a series of group discussions about topics related to spirituality. Kalyanamitra means "teacher". Unlike Guru, Kalyanamitra has more the flavor of "spiritual friend" than "master". In that spirit, Zebediah Rice offers an introductory talk, followed by Q&A from the group. The talk covers the first three levels of human consciousness. The questions cover topics such as why bad things happen to good people, whether spirituality is just something the human brain comes up with when under stress, if anger can ever be a constructive emotion in life, etc.
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1h 3min
February 09, 2020 The Nature of the Self
This talk covers the illusory nature of the self in contrast to the typical view, how this relates to why suffering occurs, and how to experience the true nature of reality. Using examples from neuroscience as well as ancient mystical texts such as the Diamond Sutra and the letters of St. Paul, we unpack what it means when the mystical masters old old said that we were asleep and why the exhorted us to wake up, to open our eyes to the truth of our freedom, to become enlightened or illuminated with this truth.
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57min
February 02, 2020 The Lower Self (Kalyanamitra Talk 1)
The first in a series of talks called Kalyanamitra sessions. Kalyanamitra means "teacher". Unlike Guru (which also means teacher), Kalyanamitra has more the flavor of "spiritual friend" than "master"-connotation that Guru has. In that spirit, Zebediah Rice offers an introductory talk, followed by discussion with the group. The talk covers the lower self or the so-called first three levels of human consciousness. The discussion part of the session covers topics such as why bad things happen to good people, whether spirituality is just something the human brain comes up with when under stress, if anger can ever be a constructive emotion in life, etc.
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1h 3min
January 01, 2020 Zebediah Rice Interviewed by Zander Ford
Zander Ford hosts a podcast called Conscious Founders. He summarizes what he is up to with the following intro: "Learn how to live a joyous life while creating amazing businesses. Explore Virtual Reality tools, tips, and tricks that accelerate Human performance." Zander has graciously allowed me to repost the interview on the Happy Life podcast. You can find more about Conscious Founders at http://consciousfounders.org/ where you'll find the podcast, more information about his background as well as his unique approach to personal coaching. Zander is also a poet and publishes his work at https://www.wordsandlight.com/.
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1h 6min
December 01, 2019 Stages of Mastery 8 - Liberated
We have finally reached the last episode and the final stage of mastery. Sadly, at the 8th Stage of Mastery, we are at a point where there is very little we can say. As Buddha puts it in the Diamond Sutra, “Words cannot express the truth; that which words express is not the truth.” (Ch. 21) Or as Lao Tzu puts in in the first lines of the Tao Te Ching, “The Tao that can be named is not the eternal Tao.” (Ch. 1). But we give it a shot.

In summary, the 8 stages are:

LOWER SELF -- DYSFUNCTIONAL
Stage 1: Physical (aka Gross)
Stage 2: Dysfunction (aka Emotional or Astral)
Stage 3: Recovery (aka Rational or Mental)

PIVOT/BRIDGE
Stage 4: Healthy (aka Transpersonal)

HIGHER SELF -- MASTERY
Stage 5: Cosmic (aka Holy Spirit)
Stage 6: Universal (aka Buddha/Illumination/Subtle)
Stage 7: Divine (aka Transcendental/Enlightened/Causal)

Stage 8: Fully Liberated (non-describable/non-doing/Wu Wu Wei)

I should say that I am indebted to my late teacher George Falcon for much of the ideation behind this model and my thinking on levels of consciousness more generally. Though many other ancient masters and my own practice have shaped my understanding, he was the one that first introduced it to me. Those familiar with his teachings will note many similarities so full credit to George here.

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21min

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