Lama Taboot

Will there ever be a more natural convergence of Dharma and Phish?  Possibly not, but we'll keep looking.  

Topics include a comparison of the controlled environment of the recording studio with our formal meditation practice; how postmeditation practice supports our time on the cushion; the skill of finding a balance between technique and openness; and how Phish fans find themselves uniquely acclimated to the thrill of spontaneity and exploration.

Pro-shot video of the 7/31/99 "Prince Caspian".

The amazing Phish Dance Party Instagram.

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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 the pairing of the 11/7/98 AC/DC Bag>Ghost, we discuss antidotes to the primary obstacles to meditation: dullness and agitation; the importance of raising our self-awareness of those states; how technique can sometimes get in the way of just being; and how we can identify and maximize our time in the “learning zone”.

AC/DC Bag>
Ghost

Audience video of the 11/7/98 show.

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 talk impermanence with a pairing of the Went Gin from 8/17/97, and the burning of the massive tower of communal band/audience art that concluded the 97 summer tour.  

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 talk about Mitchell’s trip to see Phish’s Halloween shows, then use the Denver Ghost and Riverport Gin to talk about karma as habit energy and working with our patterns.  

Musical pairings:

“Ghost” - 11/17/97 Denver

“Bathtub Gin” - 7/29/98

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 the musical pairing of 12/6/97’s legendary Tweezer>Izabella, we’ll discuss how to utilize the Three Stages of Practice—listening, contemplation, and meditation—to fully integrate the teachings. 

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.

In the spirit of the holidays, we’re sharing an intimate discussion Lama Mitchell and I recently had about the Three-Year Retreat we completed in March of 2020.  

You’ll hear an overview of the traditional three-year retreat and specifics about ours; how Phish always had a sacred thread of practice to us, even before we knew a Buddhist framework for it; why a sense of spaciousness makes everything more beautiful; what it’s been like re-entering the world; and a remembrance of our unique and truly special retreat brother, Gelek Namgyal, one of two retreatants who passed away during our retreat.

Join us at 4pm EST on New Year's Day for our "New Year, Know Mind" intro to meditation class online.  Register here: https://tinyurl.com/lamatabootnewyear

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 Phish's spectacular Starlake '97 Gumbo in mind, we delve into the relationship between mindfulness and awareness; how cultivating our ability to place our attention brings about volition; what "monkey mind" is, and how our mindfulness can counteract it; and how we each possess the potential for transcendence in every moment. 

Musical pairing: 8/13/97 Starlake "Gumbo"

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 continue our discussion of non-attachment by talking about Phish's 13-night stand at MSG and how humor can benefit our practice; how the example of the Buddha's life demonstrates the Middle Way; how we are all equal in our wish to be happy; what it means to be truly happy and surrender to the flow; why we would still do things in an unchanging state of happiness; and how all experiences, both inner and outer, are experiences of the mind.

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.

It all starts here!  We discuss our first Phish shows since three-year retreat and COVID; address the discomfort  of starting a meditation practice, and how that’s the same discomfort we are usually trying to distract ourselves from (hint: the distraction doesn’t actually help); and introduce the Buddha’s first teaching, The Four Noble Truths, and some ways we can apply it in life and at a concert.

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.

Here's a short teaser of where we will begin Season One of Lama Taboot, the podcast about Buddhism and Phish.   Upcoming episodes include topics such as non-attachment and setlist construction, happiness and surrendering to the flow, mindfulness and active listening, and karma and the methodical late-90s jams.  

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.