The Elephant in the Meditation Room | Christopher Ford
Today's episode is the culmination of a long search to find a countervailing force: a Buddhist Trump supporter. This search was born out of the Buddhist impulse to find the other side. What is talked ...
21 Feb 202238min
The Good News About Your Inevitable Decline | Arthur Brooks
The unavoidable truth is that our skills change as we get older. We invest so much in our professional success, and then at some point, things change. But there's good news. While certain abilities an...
16 Feb 20221h 14min
How Not to Ruin Your Relationships | Drs. John & Julie Gottman
If you care about your long term health and happiness, the quality of your relationships is an area you should focus on. And the good news here is that love – as it applies to friends, family, and rom...
14 Feb 20221h 8min
Why I'm Not a Buddhist | Evan Thompson
This episode features Evan Thompson, author of the book Why I Am Not a Buddhist. Evan Thompson is a writer and professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. His work and ...
9 Feb 20221h 12min
Hinduism 101 | Swami Tyagananda
One of the most consistent requests we get from listeners is to explore non-Buddhist forms of meditation. That's what we're going to do with this episode. Our guest is Swami Tyagananda, who has been a...
7 Feb 20221h 5min
Why Self-Hatred Makes No Sense | Matthew Brensilver
This episode, with Matthew Brensilver, explores a compelling Buddhist question: does self-hatred, or self-love, make sense if the self is an illusion? Matthew Brensilver, PhD, is a clinical social wor...
2 Feb 20221h 1min
What We Can Learn About Happiness from Babies | Alison Gopnik
Dr. Alison Gopnik is a psychologist at UC Berkeley and one of the world's leading experts in cognitive development. She is also the author of several books, including The Philosophical Baby and The Ga...
31 Jan 20221h 6min
Buddhist Lessons on Anxiety | Leslie Booker (2021)
All week, we've been running "best of" episodes as part of our Taming Anxiety series – and this is the final episode in that series. Leslie Booker (who goes by Booker) is one of America's leading d...
28 Jan 20221h 6min
