Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Love & Understanding
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Love & Understanding
Love & Understanding episodes
- The Critical Art of UnderstandingIn this episode, we will continue our exploration of epistemology, meeting the ancient Greeks who invented the first formal tradition or school of reason.29 min
- The Creative Art of UnderstandingIn this episode, we'll explore how our problems and questions, our wonder and curiosity, open the door to our ignorance - the first step in knowledge creation. Once faced with our ignorance, we'll discover that the only thing we can do is guess - we must create an answer or a solution.17 min
- How Do You Know?
In this episode, we'll begin exploring the foundations of knowledge, our epistemological bedrock. What do you believe and how do you know it to be true?
18 min - Dukkha & Mindfulness
In this episode, John explores dukkha, or dis-ease and unsatisfactoriness, in more depth. Then, John introduces the Buddhist practice that opens us to this dukkha and, ultimately, frees us from it.
19 min - The Most Important Question
In this episode, John shares a meditation from his free online course titled The Space of Possibility. Until you ask the question, "What is my life, or my being, in service to?" where is your freedom? Clearly comprehending your motivations and intentions, together with mindfulness, is the key to freedom.
www.spaceofpossibility.org
11 min - Identity & Finding Compassion for Our AbusersIn the first half of this episode, John talks to his partner River about her recent name-change from Deborah to River and the consequences of this decision. And in the second half, John and River each open up about the sexual abuse they experienced as children and how they have come to find compassion for their abusers.1 hr 9 min
- Recapping the Eightfold PathIn this episode, we'll take one more spin around the wheel of wisdom - around the Buddha's Noble Eight Path.23 min
- Our Livelihoods & The Eightfold PathIn this episode, John first discusses how our livelihoods fit into the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path, and then he goes on to discuss his own business - his future plans and promises to you, his audience.20 min
- ConcentrationIn this episode, we'll explore the role of concentration in the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path.31 min
- Mindfulness & The Eightfold PathIn this episode, we explore how mindfulness fits into the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path.27 min
About Love & Understanding
From the publisher's feed
In Love & Understanding, the goal is wisdom. John Driggs, the show's host, is interested in building a personal and secular…
spiritual life - one that is grounded in honesty, humility, science, reason, meditation, reflection, contemplation, and compassion. John wants you to know yourself, to love yourself, to embody yourself fully. He wants you to learn to walk your own path in peace.
Topics covered in this podcast include ancient wisdom traditions, religion, moral philosophy, epistemology, reason and rationality, meditation and contemplative practices, consciousness, the life and physical sciences, art, poetry, literature, society, politics, law, communication, relationships, family, parenting, pedagogy, and many more topics.
For John's free meditations, please see The Space of Possibility.
https://spaceofpossibility.org
More shows like Love & Understanding
SmartLess
57,642 Listeners