Jay L. Garfield chairs the Philosophy department and directs the Tibetan Studies in India program at Smith College. He is also visiting professor of Buddhist philosophy at Harvard Divinity School.

Academicinfluence.com has identified him as one of the 50 most influential philosophers in the world over the past decade.

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"Live Free or Dialogue" is a video conversation series within Michael Todd Fink's "Kind Mind" podcast platform and based on the etymology of the word dialogue: two individuals (di) communicating with openness, respect and mutual search for meaning (logos).

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Our relationship to food is often complex, especially with the rapid-changing nature of its production against the background of millions of years of evolution.

Today there is much science around the benefits of different kinds of fasting - from water fasts and juice fasts for detoxing to intermittent fasting weekly.

In many wisdom traditions, there are practices of fasting for enhancing awareness and tuning the mind to spiritual growth.

Maintaining silence is also a type of fast. So, fasting is not only from food but anything we might be too dependent upon to thereby attenuate its role so that energy can be harnessed and redirected towards healing, creativity or transformation.

This episode shares personal experiences and explores how to safely and joyfully experiment with the right attitude and understanding.

(Music “New Apartment” by Coldbrew and “A Lonely Speck in the Great Enveloping Cosmic Dark” by Bing Satellites; artwork on website by Emily Dawn; Kind Mind podcast logo design by Jon Marro)

Todd gives an introduction to the podcast for new listeners.

Additionally, the show now sometimes features dialogues with transformational thought leaders in the fields of art, music, science, philosophy, public service and beyond. Look for episodes with “Live Free or Dialogue” in the title.

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from the Dawn Chorus artist retreat at the Grand Canyon, New Year's Eve 2020.

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(music “Sunlight on Still Water” by The Lovely Moon and episode artwork on website by Emily Dawn Duforest)

Vitaliy Katsenelson was born in Murmansk, Russia, and immigrated to the United States with his family in 1991. After joining Denver-based value investment firm IMA in 1997, Vitaliy became Chief Investment Officer in 2007, and CEO in 2012. Vitaliy is also an award-winning writer. Known for his uncommon common sense, Forbes Magazine called him "The New Benjamin Graham." He's written for publications including Financial Times, Barron's, Institutional Investor and Foreign Policy. Soul in the Game is his third book, and first non-investing book.

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This episode was recorded over 3 consecutive weeks 1 year ago in June 2021 at Speakeasy Spiritual Community. It’s called The Seahorse Series because of the uniqueness of the male seahorse and subtitled mending masculinity.

This series is about the energy and quality of masculinity as distinct from manhood but then its also about men and perspectives on life and wisdom for males.

This is an invitation to hear from all people to better understand our place in the world and history, how we impact one another and recognize and regard our interdependence and our unique opportunities for correction, redemption and progress for all.

(Music by The Lovely Moon called “Music for Dreams” and episode artwork on website by Emily Dawn Duforest)

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An attitude is a lot like a musical score, a kind of outline or map for the potential expression or organization of sounds and rhythms.

Similarly, an attitude, in the psychological sense is a set of thoughts, feelings and most importantly behavioral tendencies towards someone or something. So, both are mental constructs with the potential to manifest certain actions in the environment.

When parts of the music do not fit as intended, it is called dissonance. And when one of the components of attitude is discovered to be out of alignment, it creates cognitive dissonance, the catalyst for its transformation, which points to a fundamental urge towards harmony.

Just as there is no universal agreement on good and bad music, there is also a lack of consensus on good and bad attitudes.

This episode explores the formation of attitude and how it can be changed, while inquiring about how real or important are our attitudes in the context of personal growth and self-discovery.

(music “Dream” and “Innocence” by Bing Satellites and episode artwork on website by Emily Dawn Duforest)

Kute Blackson is a transformational teacher, speaker, visionary, guide and national best-selling author of You.Are.The.One. and The Magic of Surrender.

https://www.kuteblackson.com

"Live Free or Dialogue" is a video conversation series within Michael Todd Fink's "Kind Mind" podcast platform and based on the qualities of dialogue: two individuals (di) communicating with openness, respect and mutual search for meaning (logos).

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Compared with other organisms, humans are born significantly underdeveloped physically and highly vulnerable for a considerable period of time.

Therefore, trust and mistrust can be profoundly wired into our design as it is uniquely relevant in our survival.

People may say they don't trust others much, but that might apply more to one's attitude toward specific kinds of relationships. Meanwhile, most of us do trust others in daily life more than we may realize.

Trust can be altered by levels of oxytocin, a pro-social hormone in the body. We also have an evolutionary propsensity to trust faces that look similar to our own, perhaps because our brains recognize a higher probability of being related and thus protected.

Inside of the word trust you have “us” and this episode aims to expand and serve the sense of “us-ness.”

(Music is “The Stone of Rejuvenation” by The Lovely Moon and episode artwork is by Emily Dawn Duforest)

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Why do we build and rebuild?

It could be because of breakdown or breakthrough and the interpretation may be up to us. Sometimes there are setbacks where things fall apart and need repair. Other times, we learn, grow and envision a better way to add on or redo.

We definitely encounter this on the individual level as in the arc of the hero's journey coded in folklore and mythology, where the aspirant seeks, finds, falls, despairs and rises again towards illumination.

In some sense, this path also applies now to the collective experience.

This episode explores what we and society are building - materially, digitally, spiritually - and the etymology of the word "build" with it's roots in Latin and Sanskrit connecting us to the Earth.

Additional analysis is given to the building metaphor and the symbolism of foundations, structures and roofs in life along with the tools to design beyond our breakdowns or breakthroughs.

(music “The Physical World” by The Lovely Moon and episode artwork on website by Emily Dawn Duforest)