The Antidote to Burnout | Leah Weiss
At a time when work has become more challenging than ever, we're going to explore one myth and one revelation. The myth -- which many of us, myself included, have consciously or subconsciously incorpo...
5 Elo 20201h 8min
You Don't Exist. But You Actually Do. Wait, What? | Guy Armstrong
In this episode, we take a simple, useful, and down-to-earth stroll through one of the most confounding -- but liberating -- concepts in Buddhism. On the one hand, Buddhists tell us the self is an ill...
3 Elo 202052min
The Sex Episode | Devon and Craig Hase
Buddhists don't tend to shy away from talking about body parts -- but usually it's more along the lines of meditating on things like spittle, defecation (otherwise known as poop) and the inevitable de...
29 Heinä 20201h 2min
How to Get Sleep in Anxious Times | Dr. Donn Posner
I don't know about you guys, but my sleep has suffered quite badly during the last few months. Today's guest really got me thinking about this issue in a whole new way. First, he normalizes the sleep ...
27 Heinä 20201h 18min
How Do You Optimize Your Performance When Everything Sucks? | Pete Carroll & Michael Gervais
How do you optimize your performance when life is utterly disrupted by a pandemic? Are optimism and confidence trainable skills? Can we get over our fear of other people's opinions? These are some of ...
22 Heinä 20201h 1min
The Case for "Doing Nothing" in a Time of Crisis | Sebene Selassie & Jeff Warren
At a time of multiple, mutually-reinforcing dumpster fires, meditation can seem counterintuitive. Instinctively, many of us might prefer to rush to the barricades, or Twitter, or the fetal position. B...
20 Heinä 202043min
The Upside of Desire | Cara Lai
In Buddhism/meditation circles, desire or wanting is often considered a no-no. But is this line of thinking sometimes taken too far — or simply misunderstood? Can we turn our desires — for food, sex, ...
15 Heinä 20201h 5min
The Brain Science of Enlightenment | Rick Hanson
Today we're going to nerd out about what enlightenment (or, if that word is triggering, let's just call it "high doses of meditation") can do to your brain — and, more practically, how we can derive t...
13 Heinä 202042min
