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.

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.

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.

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.

In this episode, Vince Horn is joined by Kathryn "Kati" Devaney, one of the founders of the newly formed student-led sangha, SF Dharma Collective.  In addition to being practitioner, and community organizer, Kati is also a neuroscience researcher who has specialized on studying human visual attention.  In this discussion Kati describes the origin story of the SF Dharma Collective and talks about what makes it an entirely new kind of sangha-experiment.A short note from Vince: After visiting the SF Dharma Collective in October 2018, where I met Kati, and offering a short teaching in their beautiful space in the Mission District, I knew it'd be fun to explore this new community-led model.  It feels like an emergent form of community, and I love how their groping with questions about how to self-organize, and create healthier forms of community.  I hope you enjoy learning more about this nascent project!A note from the members of the collective: The SF Dharma Collective seeks to build a student-led sangha with you!  If you’re in San Francisco come by for a morning silent sit, an evening guided sit and Q&A (almost every night at 7:30pm) or for sutra study on Sunday evenings. We are an all-volunteer student collective, and you can volunteer with us - host a sit, propose an event, or sit in on a Monday meeting. If you’re not in SF, you can livestream Michael Taft’s Thursday night sits on his youtube channel, and follow along for more on our twitter, facebook and instagram pages. We seek to make the dharma accessible to everyone, regardless of background, financial status, or prior experience.  Come sit with us.  Episode Links:🔗 SF Dharma Collective🔗Michael TaftSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode Ryan Oelke speaks with Judith Blackstone, a teacher in the contemporary fields of nondual realization and spiritual, relational, and somatic psychotherapy, about her new book, “Trauma and the Unbound Body: The Healing Power of Fundamental Consciousness”.  They chat about the connection between embodiment, nondual realization, and healing, and how all three help deepen one other. Ryan & Judith also discuss what fundamental consciousness is, how to attune to it in, the difference between being aware of our bodies and living in and as our bodies, and what it’s like shift from a top-down experience of ourselves, to living directly within the space of our bodies.  They also explore how to heal and release patterns of constriction held in the body, so that we can allow ourselves to more deeply inhabit our physical experience, release the grip on ourselves, so that we have a more fluid experience of life.Memorable Quotes“The more we let go of the protective constrictions throughout our body, the more we open to and realize ourselves as the disentangled ground of fundamental consciousness.” - Judith Blackstone“Interdependence does not eradicate individuation, individuation does not eradicate interdependence.” - Judith BlackstoneEpisode Links🔗RealizationProcess.org📖Trauma and the Unbound BodySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

I had the great delight of speaking with Oren Jay Sofer, just as he was fresh off a month-long silent retreat.  The timing couldn't be better, as the bulk of what we discussed relates to silent retreat culture, both its strengths and limitations.  We ended up discussing communication and social practice quite a bit as well, including touching on some of the practices that he teaches in his new book, "Say What you Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication."  I've known Oren now for a several years, through my wife Emily, and my respect for him as a teacher and human being continues to grow.  I hope you enjoy our conversation on the limits of retreat culture.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What is the future of consciousness hacking? Organic molecules, blinky machines, good old fashioned meditation, or some combination of them all? In this episode, recorded live in San Francisco on October 24th 2018, Michael Taft of Deconstructing Yourself, Vincent Horn of Buddhist Geeks, and host Mikey Siegel of Consciousness Hacking discuss the possibilities, the challenges, and the many ways forward in the transformation of human consciousness. Audience dialogue and questions took center stage in this event, so you'll hear plenty of back-and-forth between the presenters and the audience on psychedelics, technology, and the future of meditation.Watch the full video version here: https://youtu.be/4oE6UxGmQogSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode I'm joined in dialogue by David Gold to explore the path of Love. David shares the story of meeting his beloved, Juli Reeves, and how their meeting kicked off a process of being disrupted by Love. Listen in as we inquiry into Love, Life, Trust, Emergence, & Evolution.This is part 2 of a two-part series.Memorable Quotes:“Whatever stands in the way of me loving her more, may it be removed.” - David Gold“I will not have another God before Love. I don’t know what Gods will appear in Love, or reappear through Love, but I am not going to sacrifice Love.” - David Gold“You can’t force yourself to trust life, but you can embrace life.” - David Gold“The truth of life’s trustworthiness is revealing itself.” - David Gold"If samsaric logic is 'if this than that' nirvanic logic is 'just this'." - Vincent Horn“The practices arise from primordial wisdom rather than leading to it.” - Vincent Horn"The vipassana master whose just sitting there noticing what is, is also loving what is." - Vincent HornEpisode Links:🔗 Love Disruptors (David & Juli's Site)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.