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Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo: Empt...

09.24.2021

This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features an interview with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo. Tenzin Palmo is a bhikṣuṇī in the Drukpa lineage of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and a brilliant teacher who is able to touch the hearts ...

The Wisdom Podcast episodes:

09.24.2021 Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo: Emptiness, Dzogchen, and Women in Buddhism (#126) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features an interview with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo. Tenzin Palmo is a bhikṣuṇī in the Drukpa lineage of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and a brilliant teacher who is able to touch the hearts ...
09.03.2021 Koshin Paley Ellison: Making All of Life a Place of Practice (#125) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features a conversation with Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison. Koshin is an author, Zen teacher, Jungian psychotherapist, and certified chaplaincy educator. Koshin and host Daniel Aitken discuss the ...
08.27.2021 Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche: Dharma for Difficult Times (#124) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features a conversation with beloved teacher Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. Rinpoche and host Daniel Aitken discuss practice during lockdown (this episode was recorded in 2020 during the COVID-19 ...
08.20.2021 Robert Thurman: Mind, Self, and Reality (#123) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features a conversation with renowned translator and scholar Robert Thurman. Dr. Thurman and host Daniel Aitken cover topics such as the not-self; the nature of nirvana; how ...
08.13.2021 Vesna Wallace: Exploring the Kalachakra Tantra (#122) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features a conversation with renowned translator and scholar Vesna A. Wallace. She and host Daniel Aitken discuss the Kalachakra Tantra, including the subtle body in the Kalachakra, ...
08.06.2021 Guy Armstrong: Illuminating Emptiness (#121) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features a conversation with beloved teacher Guy Armstrong. He and host Daniel Aitken discuss many aspects of Guy’s journey into Dharma and his practice with many famous ...
07.30.2021 Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche: Lineage, Renunciation, and Engaged Buddhism (#120) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features a conversation with Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche, the lineage holder of Shangpa Kagyu. Rinpoche and Daniel discuss what it means to be a lineage holder; how lineage ...
07.23.2021 Ven. Sangye Khadro: How to Meditate (#119) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features a conversation with Ven. Sangye Khadro, a Tibetan Buddhist nun and author of the bestselling book How to Meditate: A Practical Guide. Ven. Khadro (Kathleen McDonald) ...
07.16.2021 Alan Wallace: Solitude and Resilience (#118) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features a conversation with B. Alan Wallace, author, scholar, president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, and Founder, President, and Director of Contemplative Training at ...
07.09.2021 Donald Lopez: Encounters with Great Texts and Great Lamas (#117) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features a conversation with distinguished translator and scholar Donald S. Lopez Jr. Donald is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in ...
07.02.2021 Rima Fujita: Illustrating the Dalai Lama’s Life (#116) In this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken interviews artist and author Rima Fujita. You’ll hear about Rima’s upbringing in Japan and how she became Buddhist; a dream she had which helped her discover the ways she could ...
06.25.2021 Chris Ives: Meditations on the Trail (#115) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features a conversation with writer, professor, and Wisdom author Chris Ives. Chris has published two books with Wisdom: Zen on the Trail: Hiking as Pilgrimage and Meditations on the Trail: A Guidebook for Self-Discovery, ...
06.11.2021 Lama Migmar Tseten: The Play of Mahamudra (#114) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features a conversation with Lama Migmar Tseten. In this episode, we celebrated the launch of Lama Migmar’s first major book, The Play of Mahamudra. In it, Lama ...
06.04.2021 Thupten Jinpa: Inspiration for Practice and Study (#113) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features a conversation with Thupten Jinpa Langri, renowned scholar, translator, and interpreter for His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In this conversation, Jinpa gives wonderful advice on how ...
05.28.2021 Sarah Harding: Dharma Journeys of Practice & Translation (#112) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features a conversation with Sarah Harding, a translator and qualified lama in the Shangpa Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Sarah and host Daniel Aitken discuss many topics ...
05.21.2021 Leo Babauta: Zen Habits (#111) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features a conversation with simplicity blogger and bestselling author Leo Babauta. Leo created Zen Habits, a Top 25 blog with over a million readers, when he started ...
05.14.2021 Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche: Peaceful Heart: The Buddhist Practice of Patience (#110) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features a conversation with special guest and beloved teacher Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. In this episode, Rinpoche and host Daniel Aitken discuss what it means to train in ...
04.30.2021 Thupten Jinpa: Illuminating the Intent (#109) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features a conversation with guest Thupten Jinpa Langri. This Dharma Chat was a special book launch where we celebrated the release of Jinpa’s translation of Tsongkhapa’s Illuminating ...
04.23.2021 Malcolm Smith: Translating the Tantras (#108) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features an interview with Malcolm Smith, renowned Tibetan Buddhist translator. Malcolm is the translator of two box sets from the Seventeen Tantras, published by Wisdom: The Self-Arisen ...
04.16.2021 Mark Van Buren: Your Life Is Meditation (#107) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features an interview with Mark Van Buren, a mindful living trainer, yoga and meditation instructor, personal trainer, and musician who has been promoting health and wellness for over a decade. He’s the author of ...
04.09.2021 John Brehm: The Dharma of Poetry (#106) For this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken interviews poet and teacher John Brehm. Wisdom is proud to have published two of John’s books: his collection The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy, which came out in 2017, ...
04.02.2021 Michael Imperioli: Acting, Success, and the Buddhist Path (#105) In this special episode of the Wisdom Podcast—recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat—host Daniel Aitken speaks with Michael Imperioli, best known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti in The Sopranos, for which he won a 2004 Emmy Award for ...
03.26.2021 Anne C. Klein: Finding Wholeness in the Dzogchen Path (#104) In this special episode of the Wisdom Podcast—recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat—host Daniel Aitken speaks with Anne C. Klein (Lama Rigzin Drolma), professor of religion at Rice University and a founding director and resident teacher of Dawn Mountain, ...
03.19.2021 John Tarrant Roshi: Koans, Uncertainty, and Insight (#103) For this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken speaks with Zen teacher John Tarrant Roshi about one of John’s favorite topics: Zen koans. As a meditation teacher, koans are a core foundation of John’s teaching methodology, and he ...
02.08.2021 Venerable Thubten Chodron: In Praise of Great Compassion (#102) For this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken speaks with returning guest and author Venerable Thubten Chodron about her latest book with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, In Praise of Great Compassion. This is the fifth volume in ...
01.22.2021 David Nichtern: Buddhist Wisdom for Realizing Your Creative Vision (#101) For this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken speaks with returning guest, author and celebrated teacher David Nichtern. Drawing from his book Creativity, Spirituality, and Making a Buck, David discusses how creativity naturally arises and the conditions that ...
01.08.2021 His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics (#100) For this, our 100th episode of the Wisdom Podcast, we have the honor and privilege of being joined by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other important guests celebrating the release of Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, ...
12.18.2020 Alejandro Chaoul: Body, Breath, and Mind in Tibetan Yoga (#99) In this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken speaks with author, teacher, and researcher Dr. Alejandro Chaoul. Alejandro has been teaching meditation and Tibetan yoga (tsa lung and trul khor) workshops under the Ligmincha Institute since 1995 and ...
12.04.2020 Toni Bernhard: Self-Compassion and the First Noble Truth (#98) In this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken speaks with acclaimed Wisdom author Toni Bernard. In this powerful conversation, which was recorded as part of our live Wisdom Dharma Chats program, Toni discusses her most recent book, How ...
10.30.2020 Evan Thompson: The Conversation Between Buddhism and Science (#97) For this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken speaks with Evan Thompson, professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia, and author of several books including Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy. ...
10.16.2020 John Dunne: Dharmakīrti, Conceptuality, and Antidotes for Distorted Thinking (#96) For this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken speaks with Professor John Dunne, acclaimed scholar and teacher in both Indian and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. John’s research focuses on Buddhist philosophy in relationship to contemplative practice, religious studies, and ...
10.01.2020 Jessica Pimentel: Tibetan Buddhism, Creativity, and the Work of the Imagination (#95) For this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken interviews American actress and musician Jessica Pimentel. Jessica is best known for her role as Maria Ruiz on the hit Netflix series Orange is the New Black. She is also ...
09.18.2020 Roger Jackson: Mahāmudrā in the Geluk and Kagyü Traditions (#94) For this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken speaks with Roger Jackson, renowned scholar of both Indian and Tibetan Buddhist traditions and author of several books, including his most recent, Mind Seeing Mind: Mahāmudrā and the Geluk Tradition ...
08.28.2020 Michael Mendizza: Conversations with Samdhong Rinpoche and J. Krishnamurti For this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken speaks with Michael Mendizza, documentary filmmaker and author of Always Awakening: Buddha’s Realization, Krishnamurti’s Insight. In this fascinating conversation, you’ll hear Michael share stories from his creative filmmaking journeys, and ...
08.07.2020 Malcolm Smith: Translating The Tantra Without Syllables and The Blazing Lamp Tantra For this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken speaks with Wisdom author and renowned Tibetan Buddhist translator, Malcolm Smith. Malcolm has been a student of the Great Perfection teachings since 1992 and studied under Dzogchen masters Chogyal Namkhai ...
06.26.2020 Venerable Robina Courtin: Understanding the Buddha’s Teachings for Ourselves For this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken speaks with Venerable Robina Courtin, Australian-born Buddhist nun. Venerable Robina has led an extremely active and inspiring life—from her dynamic work as an editor of a wide variety of Buddhist ...
06.05.2020 Shohaku Okumura Roshi: Stories from Modern Zen Masters For this episode, host Daniel Aitken speaks with Shohaku Okumura Roshi, Japanese Soto Zen priest and revered writer and translator. Shohaku Okumura is also the founder and current abbot of the Sanshin Zen Community in Bloomington, Indiana. In this conversation, ...
05.01.2020 Norman Fischer: A Poet’s Path to Awakening For this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken speaks with Norman Fischer, American poet, writer, and Soto Zen priest. Norman is the author of many popular books including his most recent publication, The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination ...
04.10.2020 Gil Fronsdal: The Wisdom of Many Traditions For this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken speaks with Gil Fronsdal, American Buddhist writer, teacher, and scholar in both the Zen and Theravada traditions. Gil was ordained as a Sōtō Zen priest at the San Francisco Zen ...
03.27.2020 Daniel Goleman: The Mind and Meditation For this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken speaks with Daniel Goleman, acclaimed psychologist and author of several books including the international bestseller, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. Daniel Goleman has written extensively on ...
02.21.2020 Tara Brach: Radical Compassion On this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken speaks with Tara Brach, renowned meditation teacher, psychologist, and author of several bestselling books, including Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of R.A.I.N; True ...
02.03.2020 Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche: Spiritual Heir to a Tibetan Master For this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken travels to New York to speak with Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche. Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche is the author of The Great Medicine, and grandson and spiritual heir of the great Tibetan master ...
12.13.2019 Larry Rosenberg: Early Pioneer of Buddhism in the West In this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken speaks with Larry Rosenberg, meditation teacher and founder of the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, established in 1985. Larry is among the earliest pioneers of Buddhism in America. At 87, he ...
11.22.2019 Koshin Paley Ellison: How to Forgive In this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken speaks with Koshin Paley Ellison, author of the wildly popular book, Whole-Hearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up, published by Wisdom. Koshin is co-founder of the New York Zen Center ...
11.01.2019 Ajahn Brahm and Shaila Catherine: Dialogue on the Deep States of Samadhi For this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken travels to Berkeley, California, to attend After Mindfulness, a two-day conference and retreat bringing together Buddhist practitioners from around the globe to ask the question what is mindfulness? At the ...
10.11.2019 Robert Thurman: The Practice of Deity Yoga On this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken travels to upstate New York to speak with Robert Thurman, pioneering scholar and translator in the Tibetan Buddhist world, and professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University. Professor Thurman ...
09.06.2019 Ajahn Brahm: Letting Go, Stillness, and Vanishing In this episode of the Wisdom podcast, host Daniel Aitken travels to Berkeley, California, to speak with Venerable Ajahn Brahm, a meditation teacher in the Thai Forest tradition and author of many popular books including Falling Is Flying; The Art ...
08.16.2019 Cyrus Stearns: Translating for the Great Sakya Masters For this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken travels to Whidbey Island off the coast of Washington State to speak with Cyrus Stearns, independent scholar and translator in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Cyrus is the author of several ...
07.26.2019 H. H. the Sakya Trizin: Preservation of the Dharma and the Sakya Tradition For this very special episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken speaks with His Holiness the Sakya Trizin, the 42nd throne holder of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. In this fascinating conversation, you’ll hear His Holiness talk about ...
07.05.2019 Barry Magid: Psychologically Minded Zen For this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken speaks with Dr. Barry Magid, psychoanalyst, meditation teacher, and author of Nothing Is Hidden: The Psychology of Zen Koans. Since the 1970s, Barry has dedicated his life’s work to the ...

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The Wisdom Podcast episodes:

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo: Emptiness, Dzogchen, and Women in Buddhism (#126)

Koshin Paley Ellison: Making All of Life a Place of Practice (#125)

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche: Dharma for Difficult Times (#124)

Robert Thurman: Mind, Self, and Reality (#123)

Vesna Wallace: Exploring the Kalachakra Tantra (#122)

Guy Armstrong: Illuminating Emptiness (#121)

Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche: Lineage, Renunciation, and Engaged Buddhism (#120)

Ven. Sangye Khadro: How to Meditate (#119)

Alan Wallace: Solitude and Resilience (#118)

Donald Lopez: Encounters with Great Texts and Great Lamas (#117)

Rima Fujita: Illustrating the Dalai Lama’s Life (#116)

Chris Ives: Meditations on the Trail (#115)

Lama Migmar Tseten: The Play of Mahamudra (#114)

Thupten Jinpa: Inspiration for Practice and Study (#113)

Sarah Harding: Dharma Journeys of Practice & Translation (#112)

Leo Babauta: Zen Habits (#111)

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche: Peaceful Heart: The Buddhist Practice of Patience (#110)

Thupten Jinpa: Illuminating the Intent (#109)

Malcolm Smith: Translating the Tantras (#108)

Mark Van Buren: Your Life Is Meditation (#107)

John Brehm: The Dharma of Poetry (#106)

Michael Imperioli: Acting, Success, and the Buddhist Path (#105)

Anne C. Klein: Finding Wholeness in the Dzogchen Path (#104)

John Tarrant Roshi: Koans, Uncertainty, and Insight (#103)

Venerable Thubten Chodron: In Praise of Great Compassion (#102)

David Nichtern: Buddhist Wisdom for Realizing Your Creative Vision (#101)

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics (#100)

Alejandro Chaoul: Body, Breath, and Mind in Tibetan Yoga (#99)

Toni Bernhard: Self-Compassion and the First Noble Truth (#98)

Evan Thompson: The Conversation Between Buddhism and Science (#97)

John Dunne: Dharmakīrti, Conceptuality, and Antidotes for Distorted Thinking (#96)

Jessica Pimentel: Tibetan Buddhism, Creativity, and the Work of the Imagination (#95)

Roger Jackson: Mahāmudrā in the Geluk and Kagyü Traditions (#94)

Michael Mendizza: Conversations with Samdhong Rinpoche and J. Krishnamurti

Malcolm Smith: Translating The Tantra Without Syllables and The Blazing Lamp Tantra

Venerable Robina Courtin: Understanding the Buddha’s Teachings for Ourselves

Shohaku Okumura Roshi: Stories from Modern Zen Masters

Norman Fischer: A Poet’s Path to Awakening

Gil Fronsdal: The Wisdom of Many Traditions

Daniel Goleman: The Mind and Meditation

Tara Brach: Radical Compassion

Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche: Spiritual Heir to a Tibetan Master

Larry Rosenberg: Early Pioneer of Buddhism in the West

Koshin Paley Ellison: How to Forgive

Ajahn Brahm and Shaila Catherine: Dialogue on the Deep States of Samadhi

Robert Thurman: The Practice of Deity Yoga

Ajahn Brahm: Letting Go, Stillness, and Vanishing

Cyrus Stearns: Translating for the Great Sakya Masters

H. H. the Sakya Trizin: Preservation of the Dharma and the Sakya Tradition

Barry Magid: Psychologically Minded Zen

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