Buddhist Geeks

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. Get full access to Buddhist Geeks at www.buddhistgeeks.org/subscribe

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. Get full access to Buddhist Geeks at www.buddhistgeeks.org/subscribe

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.

In this episode originally recorded in 2018 at the "Waking Up with Psychedelics" event in Los Angeles, Trudy Goodman spoke with one of the pioneers of Western spirituality and psychedelics, Ram Dass.  We're sharing this now to honor the recent passing of Baba Ram Dass, and appreciate his tremendous impact on popular, spiritual, & psychedelic culture. We hope you enjoy this love bomb! ❤️💣Episode links:🎧 Existential Medicine, A recording of Part 1 of the same Waking Up with Psychedelics Event📄 The New Wave of Psychedelics in Buddhist Practice by Matteo Pistono🔗 RamDass.org🔗 InsightLASee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Get full access to Buddhist Geeks at www.buddhistgeeks.org/subscribe

In this latest addition to the Metadharma series, Ryan Oelke is joined by philosopher Ken Wilber to explore what a fourth turning of Buddhism looks like, what it includes, and why it’s needed. "The new Buddha is not going to be the Sangha, but the unification of the Buddha, Sangha, and Dharma in a single ongoing nondual Awareness and Awakening.” - Ken WilberIn Part 1, Ken discusses the evolution of Buddhism through the three turnings, what each turning included and was missing, and what each subsequent turning provided. In a fourth turning, Ken speaks to the need of two main additions to the practice of Buddhism: growing up and cleaning up (waking up already being long present in the Buddhist tradition). In Part 2, Ken responds to how a fourth turning of Buddhism can more effectively respond to the meta-crises of the world and how practice can evolve as a response to the complexity and challenges of the world. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Get full access to Buddhist Geeks at www.buddhistgeeks.org/subscribe

In this latest addition to the Metadharma series, Ryan Oelke is joined by philosopher Ken Wilber to explore what a fourth turning of Buddhism looks like, what it includes, and why it’s needed. "The new Buddha is not going to be the Sangha, but the unification of the Buddha, Sangha, and Dharma in a single ongoing nondual Awareness and Awakening.” - Ken WilberIn Part 1, Ken discusses the evolution of Buddhism through the three turnings, what each turning included and was missing, and what each subsequent turning provided. In a fourth turning, Ken speaks to the need of two main additions to the practice of Buddhism: growing up and cleaning up (waking up already being long present in the Buddhist tradition). In Part 2, Ken responds to how a fourth turning of Buddhism can more effectively respond to the meta-crises of the world and how practice can evolve as a response to the complexity and challenges of the world. Episode Links📖 The Religion of Tomorrow by Ken Wilber🔗 The Three Turnings of Buddhism🔗 Integral Life🔗 The Ken ShowSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Get full access to Buddhist Geeks at www.buddhistgeeks.org/subscribe

Michael W. Taft, expert on Metadharma and social crises, discusses the need for Metadharma, its relation to social crises like the ecological emergency and systemic oppression. They also explore the challenges of producing enlightenment, the changing landscape of knowledge, preparing for death, working with the shadow, temporary utopias, and the problems of modernity and capitalism.

"Climate change", as a term, no longer captures the real danger that climate scientists say that we as a species, along with our fellow creatures, face today. Already the impacts of climate change have turned into a genuine ecological crisis. A growing group of people are asking out loud, if the recent string of dire government-backed climate reports are too conservative to accurately describe the real dangers ahead of us. What if, in fact, we are on the fast track toward both an ecological & civilizational collapse, and it's already too late? What would it mean to practice dharma in "the spectre of collapse?"Vince Horn is joined in this episode by a former team member of Buddhist Geeks, current monastic resident at the Monastic Academy, and host of the Emerge podcast, Daniel Thorson to discuss the dharma of collapse.Memorable Quotes:“It’s collapsing into certainty, in any case, that’s the real danger here, because then we foreclose on all kinds of possibilities and opportunities that we won’t see because we think we know what’s going on.” - Daniel Thorson“If it’s true, everything needs to change. And if we can be uncertain about it then we can play with how things might change, in order so that it doesn’t have the worst impacts we fear it might.” - Daniel Thorson“I wonder to what degree the spectre of collapse will be a kind of strange attractor that will pull people out of this deconstructive habit, into realizing that we need to make something that works, for the sake of our lives, for our children’s lives, for the sake of life on earth.” - Daniel Thorson“The world is ending, but at least I can breathe through it.” - Vince Horn“There are a lot of people and communities who are trying to retreat instead of retrieve.” - Vince HornEpisodes Links:🎙 Emerge: Making Sense of What’s Next🔗 What is Emerging?🔗 The Monastic Academy📖 "Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha" by Daniel Ingram📖 "American Dharma" by Ann Gleig🔗 Dharmachanics🔗 Metamodernism🎧 Hanzi Freinacht - Towards a Metamodern Politics📖 “The Listening Society” by Hanzi Freinacht🎧 Dr. Jem Bendell - The Meaning and Joy of Inevitable Social Collapse📄 Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy by Jem Bendell🔗 IPCC Fifth Assessment Report🔗 Transhumanism🔗 David Loy🎧 Max Borders - The Coming Social Singularity🎧 Zak Stein - A Metaphysics of Love for a Time Between Worlds📖 “Education in a Time Between Worlds” by Zachary Stein🔗 Ken Wilber📄 From Western Marxism to Western Buddhism by Slavoj Žižek🎧 Buddhism Unbundled by Vince Horn🔗 New religious movement📖 “Metamodern Leadership” by James Surwillo🔗 Meaningness: The fluid mode🎧 Bonnitta Roy - A Source Code Analysis of Power🔗 Roy Bhaskar See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Get full access to Buddhist Geeks at www.buddhistgeeks.org/subscribe

In this deep dive into the emerging territory of American Dharma, scholar-practitioner Ann Gleig joins with Buddhist Geeks host Vince Horn to explore a plurality of perspectives, some overlooked and marginalized, some debated for millennia. Over 2 hours of deep dialogical podcasting, Ann & Vince explore the larger territory of postmodernism in relation to American Dharma from multiple philosophical vantages, including the ‘post secular’, the ‘postcolonial’, and also in this conversation the ‘metamodern.’Favorite Quotes:"It can be challenging to mediate closeness with critique.” - Ann Gleig“Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Evolving.” - David Loy“In a way there’s no way around it, you kind of have to do the hard confrontational work of practice.” - Ann Gleig Episode Links:📖 "American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity" by Ann Gleig🎙 Metadharma: Set & Setting by Vince Horn📄 Postmodernism📄 Postsecularism📄 Postcolonialism📄 Metamodernism📄 Buddhist Modernism📄 Enlightenments Beyond the Enlightenment by David Chapman📺 From Buddhist Hippies to Buddhist Geeks by Ann Gleig📖 "Immunity to Change" by Robert Kegan📄 Carl Jung📄 Ken Wilber📄 Lawrence Kohlberg📄 Carol Gilligan📄 Strategic Essentialism📄 "The Fourth Turning" by Ken Wilber📄 "The Way of Tenderness" by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel🔗 Angel Kyodo Williams🔗 Jeffrey J. Kripal📄 Spiritual Bypassing: An Interview with John Welwood📖 "Nonduality: In Buddhism and Beyond” by David Loy📖 “Tripping with Allah” by Michael Muhammad Knight🔗 Jorge Ferrer🔗 White Privilege🔗 White Awake🔗 Inclusion 2.0See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Get full access to Buddhist Geeks at www.buddhistgeeks.org/subscribe

In this episode Vince Horn kicks-off a new series on Buddhist Geeks on "Metadharma." Sharing his journey from working with integral philosopher Ken Wilber in the early aughts, to deconstructing grand metanarratives with inquiry meditation and developmental psychology, to returning back to a metaphilosophical orientation in recent years.This series, on Metadharma, will explore the ways that the three jewels of the Buddhist contemplative tradition, the Buddha, Dharma, & Sangha, may be understood in light of the emergence of a Integral/Metamodern orientation.Memorable Quotes:"It's totally within the history of this Buddhist dharma tradition to transcend Buddhist dharma, to go meta on it." - Vince Horn"Yet, we do we need to adapt, we do need to change, we can't just pull something out from the past and assume that we can make Buddhism great again." - Vince Horn"What can happen if we make ourselves the middle way? What bridge might we become? And what does the world need from us right now?" - Vince HornEpisode Links:🔗 Ken Wilber🔗 Robert Kegan📖 "Immunity to Change" by Robert Kegan📖 "The Postmodern Condition" by Jean-Francois Lyotard📖 "American Dharma" by Ann Gleig📄 The mindfulness crisis and the end of Consensus Buddhism by David Chapman📖 "The Birth of Insight" by Erik Braun📺 The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert🔗 Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma🔗 Tathāgatagarbha sūtras🎧 The Dharma of Collapse with Daniel Thorson🔗 Metamodernist Manifesto by Luke TurnerSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Get full access to Buddhist Geeks at www.buddhistgeeks.org/subscribe