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We can simplify everything, making our entire experience more workable, by reducing unnecessary complications in our thinking. The “Simple” from 11/18/96 is our pairing for this especially important lesson.
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Find Lama Adam at lamaadam.com. His nonprofit is Mindfulness For Life at mindfulness-for-life.org and on Instagram @mindfulnessforlifeorg. One-on-one coaching and consulting with Lama Adam is available, and helps to support MFL's mission of bringing free, trauma-informed mindfulness and mediation to underserved communities.
Find Lama Mitchell on Instagram @lamamitchellsingletary. His band Humid Subtropic is on Instagram @humidsubtropic, and listen to their new live album wherever you stream your music.
The Cheetah House is an organization that offers help for meditators in distress. If you've experienced adverse effects from meditation, we recommend connecting with the Cheetah House community.
Sync up with us for the classic Phish movie Bittersweet Motel, directed by Todd Philips, documenting their pivotal '97-98 era. We'll yap and yuckle our way through it just like your real life houseguests!
Pro-tip: This is easiest on our website, where the movie and a player for this podcast are right on the episode page.
Support the show
Our website is lamataboot.com, Instagram: @lamataboot, and YouTube: @lamataboot
Find Lama Adam at lamaadam.com. His nonprofit is Mindfulness For Life at mindfulness-for-life.org and on Instagram @mindfulnessforlifeorg. One-on-one coaching and consulting with Lama Adam is available, and helps to support MFL's mission of bringing free, trauma-informed mindfulness and mediation to underserved communities.
Find Lama Mitchell on Instagram @lamamitchellsingletary. His band Humid Subtropic is on Instagram @humidsubtropic, and listen to their new live album wherever you stream your music.
The Cheetah House is an organization that offers help for meditators in distress. If you've experienced adverse effects from meditation, we recommend connecting with the Cheetah House community.
We’ve got two musical pairings to explore this appearance of two minds: “My Mind’s Got a Mind of It’s Own” from 4/2/98 and “What’s the Use” from 7/12/99.
Support the show
Our website is lamataboot.com, Instagram: @lamataboot, and YouTube: @lamataboot
Find Lama Adam at lamaadam.com. His nonprofit is Mindfulness For Life at mindfulness-for-life.org and on Instagram @mindfulnessforlifeorg. One-on-one coaching and consulting with Lama Adam is available, and helps to support MFL's mission of bringing free, trauma-informed mindfulness and mediation to underserved communities.
Find Lama Mitchell on Instagram @lamamitchellsingletary. His band Humid Subtropic is on Instagram @humidsubtropic, and listen to their new live album wherever you stream your music.
The Cheetah House is an organization that offers help for meditators in distress. If you've experienced adverse effects from meditation, we recommend connecting with the Cheetah House community.
With “Ghost” from Lemonwheel, 8/16/98 as our musical pairing, we discuss the interdependent arising of all phenomena. Ya know, no big deal…
Support the show
Our website is lamataboot.com, Instagram: @lamataboot, and YouTube: @lamataboot
Find Lama Adam at lamaadam.com. His nonprofit is Mindfulness For Life at mindfulness-for-life.org and on Instagram @mindfulnessforlifeorg. One-on-one coaching and consulting with Lama Adam is available, and helps to support MFL's mission of bringing free, trauma-informed mindfulness and mediation to underserved communities.
Find Lama Mitchell on Instagram @lamamitchellsingletary. His band Humid Subtropic is on Instagram @humidsubtropic, and listen to their new live album wherever you stream your music.
The Cheetah House is an organization that offers help for meditators in distress. If you've experienced adverse effects from meditation, we recommend connecting with the Cheetah House community.
We discuss our experience of emotional states as realms of samsara with the musical pairing of the unique “Maze” from Phish’s 20th Anniversary show in Boston on 12/2/2003.
Support the show
Our website is lamataboot.com, Instagram: @lamataboot, and YouTube: @lamataboot
Find Lama Adam at lamaadam.com. His nonprofit is Mindfulness For Life at mindfulness-for-life.org and on Instagram @mindfulnessforlifeorg. One-on-one coaching and consulting with Lama Adam is available, and helps to support MFL's mission of bringing free, trauma-informed mindfulness and mediation to underserved communities.
Find Lama Mitchell on Instagram @lamamitchellsingletary. His band Humid Subtropic is on Instagram @humidsubtropic, and listen to their new live album wherever you stream your music.
The Cheetah House is an organization that offers help for meditators in distress. If you've experienced adverse effects from meditation, we recommend connecting with the Cheetah House community.
We go in-depth on Mitchell’s first Phish show, 3/8/2009 at the Hampton Coliseum, in this Phish-centric bonus episode.
Support the show
Our website is lamataboot.com, Instagram: @lamataboot, and YouTube: @lamataboot
Find Lama Adam at lamaadam.com. His nonprofit is Mindfulness For Life at mindfulness-for-life.org and on Instagram @mindfulnessforlifeorg. One-on-one coaching and consulting with Lama Adam is available, and helps to support MFL's mission of bringing free, trauma-informed mindfulness and mediation to underserved communities.
Find Lama Mitchell on Instagram @lamamitchellsingletary. His band Humid Subtropic is on Instagram @humidsubtropic, and listen to their new live album wherever you stream your music.
The Cheetah House is an organization that offers help for meditators in distress. If you've experienced adverse effects from meditation, we recommend connecting with the Cheetah House community.
With "Sand>Quadraphonic Toppling" from Big Cypress, 12/31/99 we dig into karma, and how we can utilize this basic mechanism of our experience to build the strong, positive habits we (and our world) are in need of.
Support the show
Our website is lamataboot.com, Instagram: @lamataboot, and YouTube: @lamataboot
Find Lama Adam at lamaadam.com. His nonprofit is Mindfulness For Life at mindfulness-for-life.org and on Instagram @mindfulnessforlifeorg. One-on-one coaching and consulting with Lama Adam is available, and helps to support MFL's mission of bringing free, trauma-informed mindfulness and mediation to underserved communities.
Find Lama Mitchell on Instagram @lamamitchellsingletary. His band Humid Subtropic is on Instagram @humidsubtropic, and listen to their new live album wherever you stream your music.
The Cheetah House is an organization that offers help for meditators in distress. If you've experienced adverse effects from meditation, we recommend connecting with the Cheetah House community.
The Buddha’s fundamental teaching that we can reduce and ultimately transcend suffering is good news. (Maybe the BEST news!) The first step is cultivating understanding what suffering really is, and how it arises in our own experience. With the lyrics to “Character Zero” (as performed on 4/4/98), we examine The Three Kinds of Suffering.
Support the show
Our website is lamataboot.com, Instagram: @lamataboot, and YouTube: @lamataboot
Find Lama Adam at lamaadam.com. His nonprofit is Mindfulness For Life at mindfulness-for-life.org and on Instagram @mindfulnessforlifeorg. One-on-one coaching and consulting with Lama Adam is available, and helps to support MFL's mission of bringing free, trauma-informed mindfulness and mediation to underserved communities.
Find Lama Mitchell on Instagram @lamamitchellsingletary. His band Humid Subtropic is on Instagram @humidsubtropic, and listen to their new live album wherever you stream your music.
The Cheetah House is an organization that offers help for meditators in distress. If you've experienced adverse effects from meditation, we recommend connecting with the Cheetah House community.
We use Slave to the Traffic Light from 12/7/97 as a means of exploring the question: If we all have this unlimited potential for wisdom and compassion, why can’t we see it? The Four Veils teach us a lot about what’s hidden, what seems to be hiding it, and the choice that actually rests at the heart of the matter.
Support the show
Our website is lamataboot.com, Instagram: @lamataboot, and YouTube: @lamataboot
Find Lama Adam at lamaadam.com. His nonprofit is Mindfulness For Life at mindfulness-for-life.org and on Instagram @mindfulnessforlifeorg. One-on-one coaching and consulting with Lama Adam is available, and helps to support MFL's mission of bringing free, trauma-informed mindfulness and mediation to underserved communities.
Find Lama Mitchell on Instagram @lamamitchellsingletary. His band Humid Subtropic is on Instagram @humidsubtropic, and listen to their new live album wherever you stream your music.
The Cheetah House is an organization that offers help for meditators in distress. If you've experienced adverse effects from meditation, we recommend connecting with the Cheetah House community.
No new episode this week, but instead some unreleased stuff from our first recording session with Ali, where she asks about entryways to Phish and entryways to Dharma, and we end up discussing the Middle Way.
12/31/95 “You Enjoy Myself “ Pt 1
12/31/95 “You Enjoy Myself” Pt. 2
Support the show
Our website is lamataboot.com, Instagram: @lamataboot, and YouTube: @lamataboot
Find Lama Adam at lamaadam.com. His nonprofit is Mindfulness For Life at mindfulness-for-life.org and on Instagram @mindfulnessforlifeorg. One-on-one coaching and consulting with Lama Adam is available, and helps to support MFL's mission of bringing free, trauma-informed mindfulness and mediation to underserved communities.
Find Lama Mitchell on Instagram @lamamitchellsingletary. His band Humid Subtropic is on Instagram @humidsubtropic, and listen to their new live album wherever you stream your music.
The Cheetah House is an organization that offers help for meditators in distress. If you've experienced adverse effects from meditation, we recommend connecting with the Cheetah House community.
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