A Meditator in the Arena | Sam Harris
Sam Harris (no relation to me, by the way -- although I wouldn't mind it) has had a formative impact on my contemplative development. He was one of the first "normal" (at least that's how I computed i...
7 Dec 20201h 4min
Secrets from the Happiness Lab | Laurie Santos
2020 has already sucked extremely hard, but we may now be entering even more difficult months ahead, as winter sets in. So we asked Professor Laurie Santos to come on. She is overflowing with science-...
2 Dec 20201h 4min
What You Can Learn from the Buddha's Wife and Aunt | Pamela Weiss
The women around the Buddha dropped a ton of useful wisdom, but I suspect you haven't heard much about that. Why? Why have these women been largely written out of history? And what do these hidden fig...
30 Nov 20201h 5min
Depression and Anxiety: Your Old Enemies, Your Best Friends| Zindel Segal
Winter is coming. Not to get all Game of Thrones on you, but... while there are some optimistic signs on the horizon in the form of vaccines, it looks like we could be heading into some dark months of...
25 Nov 202059min
The Words of the Buddha | Bhikkhu Bodhi
When I first got interested in meditation, all the talk of the Buddha that I encountered in the various books I was reading and lectures I was attending seemed like more of a bug than a feature. I was...
23 Nov 20201h 11min
A Holiday Survival Guide for Difficult Conversations | Bill Doherty
What to do if you find yourself marooned at your Thanksgiving meal, facing a voluble uncle who is spewing political ideas you find abominable? Our guest today is overstuffed (see what I did there?) wi...
18 Nov 202058min
Six Words to Get You Through a Bad Day | Bonnie Duran
It feels like the right time to drop a deep Dharma episode. And this one has a twist. Bonnie Duran is a professor in the Schools of Social Work and Public Health at the University of Washington, where...
16 Nov 202051min
Relationship Advice from a "Mega Monk" | Haemin Sunim
My guest today does a fantastic job of speaking in a not-at-all-annoying way about the inarguably important yet potentially very cheesy concept of self-love. Haemin Sunim is a Korean "mega monk" who h...
11 Nov 20201h 2min
