A Conversation with Josh Korda

Thom Knoles speaks with author and Dharmapunx NYC's guiding teacher Josh Korda about Buddhism, Vedanta and applying meditation and spirituality to situations in our everyday lives as well as toward end-of-life care.

Produced by Eric Cahan

Thom Knoles discusses the implications and available actions for people who want to maintain a spiritual worldview amidst political polarization, the importance of awakening to finding commonality and how to build a bridge to the wall builders.

Produced by Eric Cahan

A Conversation with Mark Krassner

Thom Knoles speaks with Expectful founder and CEO Mark Krassner about meditation as a tool to empower mothers through pregnancy and beyond, the role that meditation can play in fertility, prenatal development and the birthing process, and how meditation can benefit child-rearing for parent and child alike.

Produced by Eric Cahan

Thom Knoles discusses the distinction between gratitude and deserving. The correct approach to gratitude is: You Deserve The Best. We don't feel unworthy, and we don't settle. As our consciousness grows, our idea about what is actually the best changes. It expands. We demonstrate our gratitude through acceptance of it.

Produced by Eric Cahan

Thom Knoles discusses the distinction between contentment and enlightenment. To harness enlightenment, we bring our internal state of fulfillment into action. Because fulfillment seeks need, enlightenment is always on the move. Contentedness likes to stay put, happy within its own experience. For that reason, contentedness itself is not a goal.

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Thom Knoles discusses the fallacy of control. The notion that you are in charge, or should be, is the root of enormous suffering for oneself and for others. Learn how success is gained by letting go of control, not by being a control freak. Choice is Hell. Choicelessness is Heaven. Success is a product of letting go.

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Thom Knoles discusses the mythology behind suffering, what causes it and how to minimize its impact. To eliminate suffering, we must first understand the mechanics of its creation, the potential for addiction to it, its relationship to stress and the collective influence born of the role suffering plays in western religious teachings.

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Thom Knoles discusses the concept of deserving power, the mechanics of how we develop it and its use as a metric for our own enlightenment, and explores the correlation between what we desire, the source of desiring and what we truly deserve.

Produced by Eric Cahan

A Conversation with Kevin Kelly

Thom Knoles speaks with Kevin Kelly about the evolutionary roles of human intelligence versus artificial intelligence and machine learning, the possibilities and implications of so-called artificial consciousness and the responsibility of encoding morality within the DNA of new predictive technology.

Produced by Eric Cahan

Thom Knoles answers listener questions about vegetarianism, self-healing, violence, empathy, the Wim Hof Method and more.

Produced by Eric Cahan