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Nick Meinhardt and John Freese, two former Buddhist monks, discuss all things Dharma.

John Freese and Nick Meinhardt


    • May 3, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    Building Community Within the Collapse

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2025 62:11


    John and Javier Ramirez from Abya Yala Update talk about building spiritual community within the collapse of the Western Empire

    Discourses from the Nidanasamyutta

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2024 121:19


    Discourses with Verses from the Samyutta Nikaya

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2024 116:03


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    Research Methodology 2 Lecture 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2024 127:06


    Peter Levine and Somatic Experiencing

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2024 118:37


    Judith Herman and Western Trauma Therapy

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2024 113:38


    Paul Tillich Two Types of Philosophy of Religion

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2024 121:20


    Thrangu Rinpoche on the Eight Consciousnesses

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2024 116:42


    Thich Nhat Hanh and The Heart of Understanding

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2024 106:12


    Lecture on the Samyutta Nikaya

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2024 135:30


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    Walpola Rahula's Book What the Buddha Taught

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2024 109:41


    Daoist Internal Alchemy from John Blofeld's Book Taoism The Road to Immortality

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2024 129:27


    Of Water and the Spirit by Malidoma Somé

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2024 121:08


    African Religions and Philosophy by John S. Mbiti

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2024 112:04


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    The Sacred Pipe by Black Elk, Benjamin Black Elk, and Joseph Epes Brown

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2024 78:00


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    Threefold Dharmic Methodology and The Four Modes of Knowledge Production as a Theoretical Framework

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2024 80:21


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    The Four Modes of Knowledge Production as a Theoretical Framework

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2024 46:31


    Rev. Dhammabodhi introduces his theoretical framework which includes the village shamanic, city-state yogic, clerical scholastic, and nation-state academic modes of knowledge production. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    Setting the Record Straight on Certain Modern Traditions of Theravada Buddhism

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2024 116:02


    Rev. Dhammabodhi presents and overview of the Mahasi Sayadaw vipassana lineage, the Buddhist Publication Society, the Ledi Sayadaw vipassana lineage, and the Thai Forest Ajahn Mun monastic lineage. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    Discourse on the Realized Ones from the Samyutta Nikaya

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2024 32:27


    SN 56.12 Tathagatasutta (Realized Ones) https://suttacentral.net/sn56.12/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=linebyline&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

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    Discourses on the Four Noble Truths from the Samyutta Nikaya

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2024 47:53


    SN 56.1 https://suttacentral.net/sn56.1/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin SN 56.11 https://suttacentral.net/sn56.11/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    Icchānaṅgalasutta from the Samyutta Nikaya

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2024 23:49


    Rev. Dhammabodhi and Upasaka Dustin discuss a discourse on the Buddha's meditation practice of mindfulness of breathing during the three month retreat. SN 56.11 https://suttacentral.net/sn54.11/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=linebyline&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

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    The One Thing Discourse on Mindfulness of Breathing from the Samyutta Nikaya

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2024 44:27


    SN 54.1 Ekadhammasutta (One Thing) https://suttacentral.net/sn54.1/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=linebyline&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    Discourse on Absorption and Discourse with Five Factors

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2024 42:25


    SN 53.1 https://suttacentral.net/sn53.1-12/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin AN 5.28 https://suttacentral.net/an5.28/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    Discourses on Right Effort, Five Powers, and Four Bases of Psychic Power from the Samyutta Nikaya

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2024 51:41


    SN 49.1 https://suttacentral.net/sn49.1-12/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin SN 50.1 https://suttacentral.net/sn50.1-12/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin SN 51.1 https://suttacentral.net/sn51.1/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin SN 51.22 https://suttacentral.net/sn51.22/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    Simple Discourse and Second Analysis Discourse from the Linked Discourses on the Five Faculties

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2024 57:54


    SN 48.1 https://suttacentral.net/sn48.1/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=linebyline&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin SN 48.10 https://suttacentral.net/sn48.10/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=linebyline&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    The In Ambapālī's Mango Grove Discourse from the Satipatthanasamyutta

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2024 62:53


    Rev. Dhammabodhi and Upasaka Dustin discuss the early Buddhist teaching on establishing mindfulness (satipatthana) which provides the early Buddhist contemplative structure. That structure is the body, body sensation, the heart-mind, and the Dhamma as the teachings on the 12 links of dependent origination. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    Skillfull Discourse and Corruptions Discourse from the Discourses on the Awakening Factors in the Samyutta Nikaya

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2024 44:58


    Rev. Dhammabodhi, Upasaka Dustin, and Brother Robert discuss two discourses from the Bojjhangasamyutta (Linked Discourses on the Awakening Factors) from the Samyutta Nikaya. SN 46:31 https://suttacentral.net/sn46.31/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin SN 46:33 https://suttacentral.net/sn46.33/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

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    Discourses on the Eightfold Path from the Maggasamyutta

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2023 34:45


    Rev. Dhammabodhi and Upasaka Dustin discuss the following discourses from the Maggasamyutta SN 45:91 https://suttacentral.net/sn45.91/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin SN 45:175 https://suttacentral.net/sn45.175/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin SN 45:177 https://suttacentral.net/sn45.177/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin SN 45:178 https://suttacentral.net/sn45.178/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin SN 45:179 https://suttacentral.net/sn45.179/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin SN 45:180 https://suttacentral.net/sn45.180/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    Ignorance Discourse and Analysis Discourse from the Discourses on the Eightfold Path in the Samyutta Nikaya

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2023 51:35


    SN 45:1 Ignorance Discourse (Avijjasutta) https://suttacentral.net/sn45.1/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin SN 45:8 Analysis Discourse (Vibhangasutta) https://suttacentral.net/sn45.8/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    Spiritual Discourse from the Vedanasamyutta SN 36:31

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2023 79:21


    Rev. Dhammabodhi and Upasaka Dustin discuss the Spiritual Discourse where the Buddha talks about three levels of body sensation, namely material, spiritual, and more spiritual. https://suttacentral.net/sn36.31/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

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    The Abyss Discourse and the Arrow Discourse from the Discourses on Sensation in the Samyutta Nikaya

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2023 64:54


    Rev. Dhammabodhi and Upasaka Dustin talk about the teachings on body sensations from the Vedanasamyutta in the Samyuta Nikaya SN 36.4 https://suttacentral.net/sn36.4/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin SN 36.6 https://suttacentral.net/sn36.6/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    Discourses on Samadhi and Abandonment from the Teachings on Sensations in the Samyutta Nikaya

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2023 52:53


    SN 36:1 Samadhisutta (Discourse on Immersion) https://suttacentral.net/sn36.1/en/bodhi?lang=en&reference=none&highlight=false SN 36:3 Pahanasutta (Discourse on Abandonment) https://suttacentral.net/sn36.3/en/bodhi?lang=en&reference=none&highlight=false --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    The Interior as Impermanent Discourse and The Exterior as Impermanent Discourse from the Discourses on the Six Sense Fields from the Samyutta Nikaya

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2023 64:27


    SN 35:1 https://suttacentral.net/sn35.1/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin SN 35:4 https://suttacentral.net/sn35.4/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=none&highlight=false&script=latin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    Discourses on Impermanence Suffering and Not Self From the Teachings on the Aggregates in the Samyutta Nikaya

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2023 51:25


    Rev. Dhammabodhi and Upasaka Dustin discuss three short discourses on impermanence, suffering, and not self in the sub-collection of discourses on the five aggregates (khandasamyutta) in the Samyutta Nikaya SN 22:12 https://suttacentral.net/sn22.12/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin SN 22:13 https://suttacentral.net/sn22.13/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin SN 22:14 https://suttacentral.net/sn22.14/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    At Devadaha Discourse from the Connected Discourses on the Aggregates

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2023 86:03


    Rev. Dhammmabodhi and Upasaka Dustin discuss the At Devadaha Discourse on the five aggregates from the connected discourses on the aggregates (Khandasamyutta) in the Samyutta Nikaya. SN 22:2 At Devadaha Discourse (Devadahasuta) https://suttacentral.net/sn22.2/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    Discourse on Nakula's Father from the Teachings on the Aggregates in the Samyutta Nikaya

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2023 78:38


    Rev. Dhammabodhi talks about this discourse on the five aggregates of body, sensation, perception, volition, and consciousness then he and Rev. Dot Saunders Perez discuss. SN 22:1 Nakulapitusutta (Nakula's Father) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    The Nagarautta (City Discourse) from the Samyuttta Nikaya

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2023 61:26


    Rev. Dhammabodhi and Upasaka Dustin discuss the Nagarasutta where the Buddha describes the 12 links of dependent origination and the Eightfold Path like an ancient path to an ancient city. SN 12:65 Nagarasutta (The City) https://suttacentral.net/sn12.65/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    Interview with Ricky Derisz from Mind That Ego Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2023 116:04


    John interviews Ricky Derisz from Mind that Ego Podcast. Ricky shares how he got into meditation to deal with depression and how that opened up to a deeper spiritual path. Topics include, therapy, mindfulness, loving kindness, Jung, working with the shadow, the deeper ground of innate goodness, scientism vs science, and yogic spirituality vs dogmatic religion. https://www.mindthatego.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    Discourses on Intention and Suffering from the Nidanasamyutta of the Samyutta Nikaya

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2023 76:31


    SN 12:38 Cetanasutta (Discourse on Intention) https://suttacentral.net/sn12.38/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=linebyline&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin SN 12:43 Dukkhasutta (Discourse on Suffering) https://suttacentral.net/sn12.43/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=linebyline&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    The Discourses on Fuel and on Ascetics and Brahmins from the Samyutta Nikaya

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2023 85:14


    SN 12:11 Āhārasutta (Fuel) SN 12:13 Samaṇabrāhmaṇasutta (Ascetics and Brahmins) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    Discourse on Dependent Origination and Analysis Discourse from the Nidanasamyutta of the Samyutta Nikaya

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2023 101:34


    Rev. Dhammabodhi and Upasaka Dustin discuss the teachings on the 12 links of dependent origination in the first two discourses of the Nidanasamyutta of the Samyutta Nikaya SN 12:1 https://suttacentral.net/sn12.1/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin SN 12:2 https://suttacentral.net/sn12.2/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    Renounced and With the Nun Sukkha Discourses from the Samyutta Nikaya

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2023 53:24


    Rev. Dhammabodhi and Upasaka Dustin talk about two discourses from the Saghatavaggasamyutta (Discourses with Verses) from the Samyutta Nikaya (Connected Discourses. SN 8:1 Renounced (Nikkhantasutta) https://suttacentral.net/sn8.1/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=linebyline&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin SN 10:9 With the Nun Sukkha (1st) (Pathamasukkhasutta) https://suttacentral.net/sn10.9/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=linebyline&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    Jeta's Grove and With the Nun Soma Discourses from the Samyutta Nikaya

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2023 51:58


    Rev. Dhammabodhi, Rev, Bodhipala, and Upasaka Dustin discuss two discourses from the Collection of Discourses with Verses (Saghatavagga) from the Samyutta Nikaya. SN 1:48 Jeta''s Grove https://suttacentral.net/sn1.48/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin SN 5:2 WIth Soma https://suttacentral.net/sn5.2/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    Spiritual Communist Book Club: Revolution in Peru: Mariategui and the Myth by John M. Baines

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2023 90:47


    Lopon Dorje Khandro and Rev. Dhammabodhi discuss the life of writer and activist Jose Carlos Mariategui (1895-1930), a proponent of indigenous socialism in Peru. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    The Eightfold Path and the Five Precepts as Committed Action in ACT

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2023 63:35


    Rev. Dhammabodhi gives an overview of the Eightfold Path that includes the five precepts. He provides a monastic version, a lay version, and a collective version of the path of practice. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    Dhamma Talk on Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels and on the Discourse on Blessings

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2023 56:46


    Rev. Dhammabodhi and Upasaka Dustin talk about the practice of taking refuge in the Three Jewels of the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha as well as the Buddhist values in the Discourse on Blessings (Mangala Sutta). These teachings are correlated with the ACT process of Values. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    Dhamma Talk on Self Inquiry Practice

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2023 47:46


    Rev. Dhammabodhi talks about Self Inquiry (atma vichara) practice aa taught by Sri Ramana Maharishi and then he and Upasaka Dustin discuss. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    20 Minutes Self Inquiry Practice

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2023 21:01


    Rev. Dhammabodhi gives instructions on Self Inquiry practice (atma vichara) as taught by Sri Ramana Maharishi --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    Dhamma Talk on Mantra Meditation

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2023 38:38


    Rev. Dhammabodhi and Upasaka Dustin talk about the technique of mantra practice coordinated with the breath and focused on the source of the mantra. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    20 Minute Mantra Meditation

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2023 21:06


    Rev. Dhammabodhi gives instructions for the mantra Ma Om coordinated with the. breath. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

    Dhamma Talk on the Bodyscan Meditation

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2023 62:46


    Rev. Dhammabodhi and Upasaka Dustin talk about the bodyscan meditation from the Ledi Sayadaw Vipassana lineage. They compare that with early Buddhist teachings and Yoga asana practice. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downwiththedharma/message

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