Buddhist Geeks

Richard D. Bartlett, author of Patterns for Decentralised Organising and co-founder of Loomio and The Hum, discusses interesting topics including Decentralised Organising, Microsolidarity, Fractal Narcissism, and the Occupy Movement. They explore convergence, reconstructing views, and the difference between oral and written cultures. They also discuss the shift from individual to collective interpersonal meditation practices and the concept of decentralized organizing and micro solidarity.

In this episode, Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined by long-time partner, and Teaching Lead of Buddhist Geeks, Emily Horn, to meditate together on race. They discuss the unique opportunity for transformation presenting itself to white people, and share some of their personal stories regarding racial conditioning, and how/why this largely invisible conditioning makes this conversation on difference so difficult to engage in.  Memorable Quotes“I know that trust is earned, I can’t just put up a sticker on my wall and call it safe, no matter how much I’m dedicated to diversity & inclusion.” - Emily Horn“As an individual my experience didn’t just come from nowhere. It’s actually part of this heritage, this 4.5 billion year heritage, that goes back to the Big Bang.” - Vince Fakhoury Horn Episode Links🔗 Black Lives Matter🔗 Naropa University📺 Integral Justice Warriors📄 Transparent Generosity🔗 HolacracySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode, Vince Horn is joined in conversation with Jason Snyder, PhD. Co-host of the Both/And Podcast and an adjunct lecturer at ASU’s Department of Sustainable Development, Jason joins Vince in a sit-down conversation, where they discuss the topics of memetic mediation, metamodernism, integral theory, responding to the meta-crisis, sensemaking and more.Memorable Quotes:"We are all complicit in history whether we like it or not. Both the good parts and the bad parts. I think that speaks to the notion of interconnectedness." – Jason Snyder"How do we respond to the meta-crisis? We have to create this new kind of collective intelligence that as humans we can accurately respond to the serious transition we’re in." – Jason SnyderEpisode Links:👤 Jason Snyder🎙 Both/And Podcast🎙 Both/And: Decoding Ourselves with Vince Horn🎙 Deconstructing Yourself📃 On Memetic Mediation & Perspectival Pidginism🔗 Integral Life🔗 The Evolving Self👤 Hanzi Freinacht👤 Clare Graves🔗 The Bahá’í Faith📃 New Atheism👤 Shinzen Young👤 Daniel Ingram🎙 Buddha at the Gas Pump👤 Otto ScharmerSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode we’re joined again by meditator & medical doctor Daniel M. Ingram, to discuss his current efforts at helping mainstream knowledge of the common patterns of experience that unfold during contemplative practice–commonly referred to as “the stages of insight” in the early Buddhist tradition–so that this knowledge can become integrated into our modern medical systems.Episode Links:👤 Daniel M. Ingram🔗 The Dharma Overground📃 The Progress of Insight📃 What is Exploding Head Syndrome? 📃 The Varieties of Religious Experience🔗 Consciousness Hacking🔗 Kathryn “Katy” DevaneySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

From practicing hindu tantra with a guru he met at a new age bookstore in Chicago, to building open source hexayurts on the playa of burning man, to helping launch the second biggest crypto-network, Vinay Gupta is a man on a mission. Bringing a Vaderesque approach to spiritual, social, cultural, & engineering topics, Vinay offers an ultra-compelling apocoloptimistic vision of the future. -Vince Fakhoury HornMemorable Quotes:"Social problems can be fixed with social change, and engineering problems have to be fixed with better technology. And most of what's wrong with capitalism is engineering limits not social limits, and we get very confused about this." - Vinay GuptaEpisode Links:👤 Vinay Gupta🔗 Mattereum🔗 The Hexayurt Project🔗 Industrialisation🔗 Haidakhan BabajiSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Marcin Jakubowski, Founder of Open Source Ecology, shares his journey from being a PhD student in Fusion Physics to building an open source economy of abundance. They discuss reducing costs of living, cultural barriers, balancing individual agency with collective collaboration, and the concept of a distributive enterprise. They also explore teaching and translating meditation practices to promote interconnectedness.

In this episode, Vince Horn is joined in dialogue, once again, by Diane Musho Hamilton–Zen teacher, professional meditator, and Integral facilitator. The conversation begins with Vince's reflections on an Integral Facilitator Training that he attended with Diane, where a bulk of the training centered around facilitating small group conversations around issues related to differences of identity. After discussing a number of topics that are often taken up in the Social Justice movement, and an Integral perspective on these topics, the conversation turned toward the role of the Teacher, and on transmission, hierarchy, embodiment, feedback, and projection. Memorable Quotes:“I found that rather than trying to teach stage models to groups, that I like to invoke them into models.” - Diane Musho Hamilton“We don’t challenge basketball coaches the way we challenge spiritual teachers.” - Diane Musho Hamilton“Every moment of adulation is followed by a great disappointment.” - Diane Musho HamiltonEpisode Links:👤 Diane Musho Hamilton🔗 Ten Directions, Integral Facilitator Training📄 Everything the Same, Everything Different by Diane Hamilton📺 Saturday Night Live: Dinner Discussion🔗 Two Arrows Zen🔗 Black Elk🔗 Worldcentric📺 Future Thinkers Interviews with Ken Wilber🔗 The Five Stages of Grief📖 Compassionate Conversations by Diane Musho Hamilton, Gabriel Wilson, & Kimberly Loh📺 The Role and Importance of the Teacher by Ken McLeod See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode, Vince Horn is joined in conversation by long-time mentor and friend, David Loy, to explore his latest on, "EcoDharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis." Their discussion centers around how this EcoDharma work relates to our current exploration of Metadharma, which we describe as any approach to dharma practice that intentionally seeks to respond to the overlapping crises that humanity now faces. Quotes:"The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology." - E.O. Wilson"I see social evolution as a continuation of biological evolution." - David Loy"The Ecological Crisis is Earth’s way of telling us, 'Grow up or get out of the way.'" - David Loy Links:👤 David Loy 📖 EcoDharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis by David Loy🎧 The Metadharma Series 🎧 The Meta-Crisis Is a Human Development Crisis, Daniel Thorson & Zak Stein📄 How to Be an Ecosattva by David Loy📄 Differentiation of the Cultural Value Spheres by Ken Wilber📖 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari📄 Dualistic cosmology 📖 The Structure of World History by Karatani Kojin📄 Transparent Generosity 📄 Capitalism 📺 Jeremy Rifkin on the Fall of Capitalism and the Internet of Things 📖 Syntheism: Creating God in the Internet Age by Alexander Bard & Jan Söderqvist🔗 Open Source Ecology 📺 Civilization starter kit by Marcin Jakubowski🔗 Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center 📖 Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken🔗 Extinction Rebellion 🔗 Extinction Rebellion Buddhists 🔗 Sunrise Movement🔗 350.orgSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode, Emily Horn speaks with Insight meditation teacher and co-founder of the newly established Meditation Coalition of Los Angeles, JoAnna Hardy. In their conversation, they explore the origins, values, & current activities of this new experiment in community.Here at Buddhist Geeks we see the Meditation Coalition as part of larger emerging trend of decentralizing dharma communities. Check out our episode on the SF Dharma Collective to hear another example of a sangha that is seeking to decentralize traditional power structures.Quotes:“What is this Dharma?” - Emily Horn“Everybody we come into contact with, if we’re awake enough and really paying attention, whether we agree with them or not, we’re going to learn something from them.” - JoAnna Hardy Links:🔗 Meditation Coalition 🔗 JoAnna Hardy 🔗 Spirit Rock Meditation Center 📄 Ken McLeod 📄 Against the Stream Closes Doors as Investigation Finds Misconduct by Founder Noah Levine See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Vincent Horn, a Buddhist meditation teacher, introduces Six Ways to Meditate, a meta-model that helps navigate the diverse techniques available. The podcast explores concentration practices, the development of qualities of the heart, unanswerable questions in the Zen tradition, the complexities of love, living in 'not knowing,' and the significance of awareness in meditation.