Buddhist Magic: What is Possible with the Powers?
Have you ever considered what it would be like to cultivate, what in the Buddhist tradition are called the siddhis or magical powers? Buddhist magic is an endlessly fascinating topic, and in this epis...
3 Mar 200824min
Geeks of the Round Table(tm)
The Geeks of the Round Table™ continue their discussion on the Big Mind process and the criticisms from Zen teacher Brad Warner, in his article Big Mind™ is a Big Load™ of Horse Shit (link goes to Sui...
25 Feb 200833min
McZen: A Double Satori with Cheese
This is an experimental dialogue called Geeks of the Round Table. In this session we speak with two young Buddhist practitioners in a round-table format about Brad Warner’s criticisms of the Big Mind ...
18 Feb 200818min
Crazy Wisdom Saves the Day!
Crazy Wisdom, a phrase coined by the late Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, is used to describe uncommon, unique, and even wild ways of sharing wisdom. Wes Nisker, insight meditation teacher, shares with us h...
11 Feb 200811min
Science as the Western Wisdom Tradition
“The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.” – Einstein One would think that the above quote would come ...
4 Feb 200810min
Insight Dialogue: Extending Meditation into Mutuality
What would it be like if we were able to extend the silence & clarity of the meditative mind into our relationships? Would this impact how we listen, what we say, and even how we perceive reality? Gre...
28 Jan 200821min
Atto, Zepto, and Yacto: The Buddhist Marx Brothers
We speak to insight meditation teacher and comedian Wes Nisker about humor, enlightenment, and the way that the scientific vision has impacted and informed the teachings of the Buddha. Quoting Wavy Gr...
21 Jan 200814min
Interpersonal Meditation: Awakening as Relational Beings
Gregory Kramer, teacher of an interpersonal meditation practice called Insight Dialogue (and author of a book with the same title) joins us to explore the question of, “What is the path of awakening, ...
14 Jan 200824min
