In this one Jim and Benddha sit down with a friend named Stack. Stack is working on a podcast called 'The Things We All Carry" in it first responders share their traumatic experiences in order to normalize the concept and help lighten the load.

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Thanks for looking into The Unusual Buddha Podcast. In this one we tall to Mondo Samu. He is a meditation teacher both in VR and in person. We talk about spirituality, technology, and we even played an amazing game called Movies & Cheeses. This episode was a hot mess and I'm gonna put it out there. It helps build the character arc, right. Jump into our Discord and be a part of the next episode! 515 est 4/6/22 https://discord.gg/x2CxrT8T.

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Thank you for getting as far as the episode description. In this episode Jim is knocking off some rust and looking to change formats. We recorded this from our Discord stage, live. Big thank you to AskLeo for recording when I couldn’t figure out mine, huge thanks to my dude Ben McMillan for the killer intro/outro track, and to all 3 people that made it live. We'll be refining this structure for a bit so if you missed it, no worries we'll be back at it soon. Enjoy!

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In this episode Jim and Duane talk to Mandy Capehart, she is the author of Restorative Grief. As well as an amazing grief coach, and, a Mom. We got to sit and chat with her about her book and grief in general and it was quite good. Both in seeing Mandy's view point on grief and just the state of society and grief as it is. To grab a copy of Restorative Grief click this link https://amzn.to/3yfXOZf

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In this episode Jim sits down with Gary Sanders who is the teacher at the heart of Boundlessheartdharma.com. He's a Dharma teacher, recovery advocate, and, down to earth person. We talk a bit about his path to Buddhism, addiction recovery, self awareness and self acceptance. Gary was brave enough to be the first to sit down and talk to us live on our Discord "The Unusual Sangha" we even got a guest on live to ask a question. Be sure to join our Discord server (https://discord.gg/pvun7JvaER) for our next interview. You just might get your question answered live!

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There are times while recording this podcast I have sat back and thought wow this is possibly the best episode ever. Duane Toops, new member of The Unusual Buddha and creator behind duanetoops.com, had that moment on June 6th 2021... then I realized I hadn't hit record. So rather than curse the heavens we carried on and had a tribute conversation about the time we recorded magic. In this episode we talk about Duane, his background, and what to expect now that he's on board. We also touched on a project we're working towards together called Spiritual Syndicate where we'll be featuring teachers that for one reason or another may not reach you. It's awesome to have Duane on board I can't wait to get working on this project together. If you're looking to find more of Duane's work visit duanetoops.com. If you'd like to support see more from The Unusual Buddha visit theunusualbuddha.com. Also big thanks to Ben McMillan for the awesome intro music

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Duane Toops' latest piece The Miracles We Notice

Duane working his killer voice over skills and reading his latest piece available here

https://theunusualbuddha.com/2021/04/25/the-miracles-we-notice/

Duane is an artist, poet, and, writer who also has his own site DuaneToops.com

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Jesse Armas is the first of many teachers we plan to feature here on The Unusual Buddha Podcast. He's a self proclaimed gender queer human and religious detester. With his unique style he may not have hit your radar at this stage. He lays out his unique POV to teaching and meditation in general. Be sure to check out Humans are Divine on Instagram and if you want to drop some support look them up on Patreon. Even a little support could go a really long way

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This episode is a bonus and is an audio version of a piece called a bit about Duane. This is your chance to learn a bit about our newest member in his own words. Enjoy!

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In this episode I interview Zen/Chaan teacher, author, and, all round interesting meditation teacher, Daniel Scharpenburg.

We talked about the Zen/Chaan tradition, charging for meditation instruction, and, his latest book!

If you're interested and would like to pick up a copy of Daniel's latest book, Sharpen your Mind, visit the link below.

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Daniel regularly creates videos on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/DScharpy/)

He's on Twitter @dscharpy

If you want to dig in and do a deep dive into Daniel and his content ne sure to check his blog meditationwithdaniel.com.

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