California "Dharma" is a catch-all term for the mealy-mouthed, feel-good "mindfulness practice" (or whatever nonsense) that gets sold as Buddhism in the West today. To a large degree, part of our motivation in starting this podcast was to provide for Westerners an alternative to this soul-sucking faux dharma, and a true investigation of what the Buddha and the great masters really teach. In this episode, we are joined by special friend of the show, Rhinestone Mahārāja (@gesarofbling), and finally tackle the California Dharma beast, addressing what it is, exactly, and what's so bad about it. Along the way we discuss teaching "mindfulness" at Google Corporate; Gwyneth Paltrow's jade egg for your lady parts; and "spirituality" as another line on #TheGraph; along with some very encouraging thoughts for the future.
Gregory Schopen - "Archaeology and Protestant Presuppositions in the Study of Indian Buddhism"
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1062872?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Friedrich Schleiermacher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Schleiermacher
"The Graph"
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_hQm8YXYAAaOO6?format=jpg&name=small …
Adrian Kreutz - "Marxism and Buddhism"
https://aeon.co/essays/how-marxism-and-buddhism-complement-each-other
Monsanto's Rainbow Pride Logo
https://monsanto.com/app/uploads/2017/08/Rainbow-Monsanto-sign.jpg
Tara Brach
https://www.tarabrach.com/
Jon Kabat-Zinn
https://www.mindfulnesscds.com/pages/about-the-author …
Michael Taft "Deconstructing Yourself"
https://deconstructingyourself.com/
Mahāmudrā: The Four Seals https://studybuddhism.com/en/advanced-studies/vajrayana/mahamudra-advanced/a-discourse-on-autocommentary-to-a-root-text-for-mahamudra-the-dalai-lama/mahamudra-the-four-seals-mahamudra-dzogchen
"Mindful Sex Series", by Jessica Graham
https://deconstructingyourself.com/mindful-sex
Patrul Rinpoche "Words of my Perfect Teacher"
http://padmasambhavagururinpoche.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Patrul-Rinpoche-Words-Of-My-Perfect-Teacher.pdf
Right Mindfulness in the Pali Canon
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sacca/sacca4/samma-sati/index.html
Robert Thurman
https://bobthurman.com/
