88 Doubt: Part 2
“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.” Voltaire You know too much, yet understand too little. And it’s the same for me, and everyone you and I happen to know. And, s...
4 Maj 202226min
87 Stef Aupers on Conspirituality
Stef Aupers is professor of media culture in the Institute for Media Studies at the University of KU Leuven in the Netherlands. As a cultural sociologist, he studies the role of cultural meaning in th...
8 Mars 20221h 14min
86 Doubt: Part 1
“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.” Voltaire You know too much, yet understand too little. And it’s the same for me, and everyone you and I happen to know. And, s...
7 Mars 202223min
85 Winton Higgins on Secularizing Buddhism
In the practising life, choices must be made. Those choices occur at all levels from big picture views of the world, a whole life, and society, to the everyday choice of how to be in the world, how to...
28 Jan 20221h 5min
84 Practice Item no. 1
Take a trip to the Great Feast in this first in a series of posts on the practising life. Non-Buddhism meets post-traditional slants on practice, whilst tackling complexity, doubt, and ecological thou...
25 Jan 202235min
83 Stephen Batchelor on Secularizing Buddhism
Today I speak to Stephen Batchelor, figurehead for Secular Buddhism, well known author, and Scot. I present the lovely man some of the critique aimed at his work in the book Secularizing Buddhism, and...
2 Dec 20211h 17min
82 Richard K. Payne on Securalizing Buddhism
From immanent Buddhism to cruel optimism, from secular subjectivity to the unconscious material running through your personal practice, today's episode features a returning guest in the figure of Rich...
10 Aug 20211h 5min
81 You Need Non-Practice!
Something like a provocation, something of an introduction; this audio-cast presents a recent piece of work over at the Imperfect Buddha site on non-practice for all those interested in how to apply t...
26 Juni 202130min
