The ZDoggMD Show

By Dr. Zubin DamaniaMedicine Health & Fitness Religion & Spirituality Spirituality

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June 14 Where'd My Inner Critic Go? | TikTok Zen LIVE
No subject, no object, just phenomena arising. From my TikTok live on consciousness, hope, meaning, the freefall of no belief, and what it's like when the self-critical voice quietly stops showing up. Plus: row your boat.

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59 min
June 10 Burnout, Addiction,and the Nuclear Reactor of Unworthiness (w/Dr. Rishi Menon)
One phone call with cardiologist and recovering alcoholic Rishi Menon and BOOM: we're instant Stepbrothers 😂 We dive into failing med school, 20 years of proving worthiness, recovery, suicidal ideation, burnout, the Enneagram as software, body changes after letting go, and why practice probably isn't causative but shows up anyway. Full video here.

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2 hr 16 min
June 03 How Do I Live vs. WHAT AM I? | Tuesday Zen, LIVE
There's really only two questions. Exploring the first can lead to a more comfy prison cell, and REALIZING the second shows there never was a prison cell at all. Both are ABSOLUTELY PERFECT.

Live conversation from the Z-Shed!

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1 hr 10 min
May 16 When "You" Drop Away, Only Trust Remains
"You" can never really trust this moment. And yet THIS, here, now, IS pure trust itself. A Friday Zen Live on the unconditional acceptance of what is, why the separate self can never surrender into this, the second arrow that never landed, and an old biker dude who took the longest dump in trail bathroom history 💩

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1 hr 3 min
May 02 Every Rose Has Its Thorn (Why Poison Was Basically The Buddha)
What goes up must come down, and for the spiritual seeker, that pendulation is one of the most specific and painful flavors of suffering there is. This Friday Zen LIVE from YouTube explores why the ups and downs are the same no-thing, what natural compassion looks like when you never practiced or play-acted it, Douglas Harding's headless way, and much more.

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1 hr 10 min
April 26 The Mind Can Be A Real Bastard | Friday Zen, LIVE
My baby is now at senior prom, I got a splitting headache, and somehow this is the perfect moment to talk about no-thing-ness. A Friday Zen YouTube live (4/24/26) on retreats, the seeking apparatus burning out, no-thingness appearing as everything, and why the mind is a real a-hole 🕳️

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1 hr 8 min
April 21All That Seeking Just To End Up HERE | Monday Zen, LIVE
Nina chose Vassar — and that news kicks off a wide-ranging Monday Zen live that covers a lot of ground. We start with the "spiritual journey" in full: from burning out as a doctor, to a spontaneous awakening in Las Vegas, to years of meditation, retreats, shadow work, and psychedelics, all of it eventually collapsing into the simple recognition that it was always just this.
Along the way: why lying becomes nearly impossible when there's nothing left to protect, what every psychedelic from 5-MeO-DMT to Salvia Divinorum pointed at (spoiler: this), the honest question of whether awakening is liberation or just a very specific kind of dissociation, monogamy and marriage as story, why spiritual authority dissolves completely at some point, and how the whole journey lands you right back where you started ...except the circle never quite closes.
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1 hr 41 min
April 18 Hogwarts vs. The Hard Knock Life? Our College Tour Story!
Just got back from spring break touring colleges with my oldest ZPupp (yeah, wasn't she just a frickin' BABY yesterday?). Rochester, Vassar, and NYU. This episode is the full debrief...the steel cut oats, the Hogwarts campus, the NYU dean who told an auditorium full of accepted students and families that it's depressing to be poor, and what all of it reveals about ambition, projection, and just letting life life itself since the script is already written, bruh. Full video, originally LIVE on YouTube, here.

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1 hr 1 min
April 02Everything Seems Fine, And Yet... | April Fools Zen, LIVE
From BTS documentaries to grieving your own college experience through your kid's eyes, life keeps surfacing exactly what needs to be seen. An April Fools live conversation that somehow landed on death, freedom, and the scrote-sichord 🤭
Topics:
The Dr. Oz April Fools Prank — A Fond Memory

BTS Documentary: Schmos, Celebrities, and the Cosmic Joke

"Everything Seems Fine and Yet" — What's Been Coming Up

Nina's College Stuff

What I Actually Felt at 18 — Grieving the College Experience

UC Berkeley: The Real Story

Professor Fristrom and the Lab That Saved Me

It's Never About Someone Else — It's Always About You

Era Ending or Projection?

The Party Degree I Never Got to Have

Everything You Ever Learned Is Happening Now

The 529 Account Question and the Opportunity Cost of College

What If You Just Invested the Tuition Money Instead?

Waking Up, Growing Up, Showing Up — Ken Wilber and the Story Models

All Beliefs Are Provisional — Go Down the Rabbit Hole, Then Let Go

The FIRE Movement and the Trap of Seeking Freedom

Spiritual Bypassing: You Can't Actually Do It

What's Your Biggest Fixation That's Left?

The Trap of "Someday I'll Be Free"

What Happens When You Die?

Kids and the Double Arrow of Suffering

Stage Models of Awakening — Useful Until They're Not

How Long Do You Meditate? Zero. Everything Is a Meditation.

A Medical School Musical Interlude

ADHD, Psychiatric Labels, and Just Zubining

Is Awakening Even Desirable?

Awakening as Death Followed Immediately by Hilarity

From the Outside It Looks Like Existential Crisis — And That's Exactly Right

Is "We" Closer to Truth Than "I"?

Religious Awakening vs. Non-Dual Awakening — Same Flavor, Different Tradition

"How Is This Here the Same as This There?"

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1 hr 28 min
March 30Crashing through every branch on the Tree of Belief | Saturday Zen, LIVE
This is just DUMB SIMPLE...so much so that the mind that always wants to know, always wants to make sense, simply won't believe it. From 3am despair during college admissions season to spontaneous tears on the leg press, life keeps showing up as exactly what it is. Original YouTube live video here.
College admissions process and Nina's New York school visits

Waking up at 3am — absorbing stress and feeling it fully

Why meditation techniques eventually stop arising on their own

Non-dumbality: reality as too simple and ordinary for any concept to touch

The Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path — why the Buddha gave instructions at all

The "fake it till you make it" paradox of spiritual practice

Crying at the gym and spontaneous emotional release

Who or what is choosing what happens next?

The tree of belief metaphor — falling through branches on the way down

Nothing is hidden: object permanence as a functional lie

Zen stink and the spiritual ego that thinks it woke up

What awakening actually means (and why the story collapses)

Angelo, gratitude, and why spiritual content no longer lands

Ram Dass on other people's awakening being none of your business

Gratitude roll call to those who "taught" me

What's actually being transmitted in these live shows

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1 hr 10 min

About The ZDoggMD Show

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Interviews and live rants on healthcare, depolarizing our divided society, and the non-dual nature of reality. Hosted by UCSF/Stanford-trained physician Dr. Zubin Damania (AKA ZDoggMD).