Podcasts about zendo

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 3/23/25 - What's Liturgy? What's not Liturgy? Hojin Sensei talks about it's place, not just as a function in the Zendo, but as a down to earth, profound opening, right now, in our life.

In today's episode, we look at an earlier and less popular version of master Dogen's Fukanzazengi, which has quite some differences from the popular version we all know. So, what exactly did Dogen Zenji change in the rewrites to his manual for zazen? Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum: March Monthly Zazenkai »

Zachary Smith reflects on a talk given by Zentatsu Richard Baker, SFZC's second Abbot, in 2012 about the idea of “mental posture”. Zach discusses how this idea can help us both with sitting and with bringing practice to our daily activity outside the Zendo.

Today we dance with an insightful scholar's paper on Dogen Zenji's unique and profound ideas regarding fullness, universal liberation, the sacred as "immanent in space and time", Buddhahood in the "fundamental activity of the world," practice-realization as "liberating activity", Zen practice as the "practice of Buddhahood," and the fullness and sacredness of "ordinary life". Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum: READ MORE HERE »

Happy New Year to you all! We continue our study of the koans from the Blue Cliff Record, with a new batch of them today, beginning with case 13. Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum: JANUARY 2025 MONTHLY ZAZENKAI »

After a long day of errands, mimics, and social anxiety- there is nothing like a long, lavish rest from the road. And it's even sweeter when it's free! This week in the Garden, Soren and Caitie are back to co-pilot Sorcatia in their D&D live play! TJ returns to DM as our favorite gardeners guide their character through a lavish tavern, as Sorcatia and Zendo take a much deserved rest and reprieve before continuing on with the next leg of their journey. ------------------------------------------------------------ Edited by TJ (Teedge) Hargrove ------------------------------------------------------------ Follow us on Insta ⁠⁠⁠@Chromatic_Roses⁠⁠⁠ Like us on Facebook at Chromatic Roses Watch Caitie Stream on Twitch! ------------------------------------------------------------ Sound effects by Pixabay and Floraphonic https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/cute-level-up-1-189852/ https://www.youtube.com/@floraphonic Ambient Play music by: -Vlad Bakutov from Pixabay -Geoff Harvey from Pixabay Intro and outro music - Follow Noah Trumble at https://www.instagram.com/trumbleygeek/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Todays Topics and Links All Dungeons and Dragons resources cited fall under Fair Use via a Creative Commons by Share Alike 3.0 License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ -------------------------------- -Chapters- 00:00 Intro 13:09 Checking Inn 17:09 Dinner Talk 32:55 After Meal Reflection 39:57 Sunroom Sittin 47:00 Outty --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chromaticroses/support

However you feel about the results of the American election, and wherever you live in the world, we do not stop working for good. This is Master Dogen's lesson of "Ongoing Practice Enlightenment". We accept where we are, work for a good direction from right here ... and right here ... and right here. Winter is Winter, Spring is just Spring, Summer is just Summer, Fall is Fall ... but if we do not plant seeds in the Spring, there can be no harvest in Summer and in Fall. Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum: November 11 Zazenkai »

This week's talk was offered by Mountain Cloud's lead teacher, Valerie Forstman. It was recorded on October 31st at the Zendo in Sante Fe. Please consider supporting Mountain Cloud with

In this episode, we continue to look at koans from the Blue Cliff Record, specifically cases 7 to 12. We do that through the Soto Zen lens, extracting the practical essence from these famous ancient exchanges. Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum: November 2024, monthly Zazenkai »

What do AI, Science, Psychedelics, and Stand-up Comedy have in common?  . More than you might think. In these next two episodes of The Dov Baron Show, we sit down with the brilliant and boundary-pushing Sarah Rose Siskind, a science comedy writer and founder of Hello SciCom. . Sarah's career is nothing short of extraordinary—from writing for StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson to helping shape the personality of the world's most famous robot, Sophia. . But that's just the beginning. Sarah is also a psychedelic stand-up comedian and a Zendo-trained trip sitter. In her show, Drug Test, she takes self-experimental journalism to new heights by personally exploring the effects of various substances, all in the name of harm reduction and curiosity. Through it all, she blends humor with deep insights into the therapeutic potential of psychedelics and their impact on mental health. . This episode will take you on a journey through the intersection of science, AI, and mental health, challenging you to rethink what's possible. Sarah's ability to communicate complex ideas with humor and clarity is nothing short of inspiring. Get ready to laugh, learn, and leave with more questions than answers. . 00:00 Introduction to the Dov Baron Show

This month, accompanying our sangha's book study, we take a look at the first five koans from the famous Blue Cliff Record. We do that through the Soto Zen lens, extracting the practical essence from these famous ancient exchanges. Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum: October 2024 Monthly Zazenkai»

Brett Ritchie is an ex-police officer whose life was changed after a near-death experience, he is also a Zendo Kai practitioner, works in radio and helps promote mental health awareness and meditation. Help support Brett's mental health tour via the Buy Me a Coffee link under: https://buymeacoffee.com/brettritchie45 Connect with Brett in the links below: https://www.instagram.com/brettritchie45/ https://www.tiktok.com/@brettritchie45 www.brettritchie.au www.br45.au www.lifescookbook.au Don't forget to grab your Karate Journal to document your journey: Amazon Karate Journal Link: https://amzn.to/3l9spmt If you found value in this episode or enjoyed it, please consider sharing it with your friends on social media. And if it didn't resonate with you, feel free to pass it along to your enemies – perhaps they'll find it enlightening! Support the show at no extra cost to you by shopping on Amazon through my affiliate link, where I receive a small commission on your purchases. It's a win-win! Find the link below. Amazon Affiliate Link: https://amzn.to/3qqfuhy You can also support the Karate For Mental Health Programme by purchasing our merchandise or donating via Buy Me a Coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/KFMH And check out our shop for exclusive merchandise, including the Anxious Black Belt Mug: Les Bubka's Shop: https://lesshop.ammhub.com/accessories/anxious-black-belt-mug About Les Bubka: Author, Karate coach, entrepreneur, and creator of the #Hikite4ever T-shirt. Les promotes inclusive Karate with a focus on the mental health aspects of training. Teaching nationally and internationally. Let's connect: info@lesbubka.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This month, as we begin our sangha's Ango, we dive into a few sections of master Dogen's ¨Shoaku Makusa¨ (Not Doing Wrongs) Further reading and discussion are available on the Treeleaf forum: September 2024 Monthly Zazenkai»

Die Huaku Ba Zen Kutsu in Springe wurde von Christoph Rei Ho Hatlapa am 24. Februar 2024 eingeweiht. Der Name der Übungshalle lehnt sich an den Weiß-Pferd-Tempel in China an, von dem aus sich der Buddhismus dort verbreitete. Manchmal bedarf es eben nur weniger Menschen, die den entscheidenden Impuls geben. So war es auch mit Bodhidharma, der lediglich vier Schüler hatte und zu einer entscheidenden Geistesgröße mit Millionen von Nachfahren wurde. Dabei ist das, was er den Menschen zeigte, nichts Besonderes, wie es Meister Linji im Rinzai Roku, Abschnitt X beschreibt. Es ist nur, sich nicht von anderen täuschen zu lassen. Damit die Kraft, mit der wir ursprünglich ausgerüstet sind, unverzüglich wirken kann. Wenn wir aber den lebendigen Buddha nicht jetzt in diesem Augenblick antreffen, werden wir für immer in den drei Reichen, dem Reich der instinktiven Vorlieben, der materiellen Vorlieben und der geistigen Vorlieben herumirren. Nur wer den Geist aufgibt, der von Moment zu Moment außerhalb herumsucht, der ist so, wie er ist, ein Mensch im Frieden, der zum wahren Selbst zurückgekehrt ist. Dazu lädt nun auch die Huaku Ba Zen Kutsu ein. Huaku Ba Zen Kutsu – Bodywork am Deister (https://bodywork-am-deister.de) Um für junge Erwachsene den Aufenthalt im ToGenJi zu ermöglichen, bitten wir um eine Spende: Sie finden die Kontodaten/Paypal auf unserer Website https://choka-sangha.de/spenden/ Herzlichen Dank

Maya, Jogba, Siba Puri, Zendo e o Maracatu Nação Erê conversam sobre a experiência de participar da Incubadora Musical do Recife, um projeto realizado pelo Coquetel Molotov com produção de Benke Ferraz.

We continue our study of master Keizan's Zazen-Yojinki, this time diving into the physicality of zazen and some useful techniques to keep ourselves awake and alert when sitting. Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum: August 2024, monthly Zazenkai»

We continue with the fifth instalment of this series of talks based on master Keizan's 'Zazen-Yojinki'. In this episode, we are looking at what zazen is by understanding what zazen isn't. Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum: July Monthly Zazenkai»

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Reflections on Less Online, published by Error on July 7, 2024 on LessWrong. Meta: This post turned out longer, slower, and less well-written than I hoped. I don't see any similar posts in a quick search, though, so I'm posting it anyway. I've tried to front-load feedback that might be useful to the organizers, and put more personal stuff towards the end. For context, I attended LessOnline and the Manifest-branded Summer Camp, but not Manifest itself, and my main prior experience with events like this is fandom conventions such as (local to me) Dragoncon. As I left the Lighthaven dorm to find breakfast, five people at a table in the courtyard invited me to join a game of Zendo. This was the first notable thing to happen to me at LessOnline. It was also the thing that convinced me that yes, the trip across the country to attend would be Worth It. I have never played Zendo before, and don't expect to play it again anytime soon. That the game was specifically Zendo is not important. The important part is that five people in the same place knew what Zendo is and found that kind of game worth playing. There's an attitude that I associate with normies, aptly summarized by Tycho Brahe (the writer, not the astronomer) as: "Many people respond to new information, especially densely coded information, as something between an insult and a chop to the trachea." There's a different attitude, one that I associate with security mindset, aptly summarized by John Gordon as: "Alice will happily attempt, with someone she doesn't trust, whom she cannot hear clearly, and who is probably someone else, to fiddle her tax returns and to organise a coup d'etat, while at the same time minimising the cost of the phone call. A coding theorist is someone who doesn't think Alice is crazy." A lot of things happened over the course of my trip, but what made it worth it wasn't any particular event. It was spending a week around the sort of people that play Zendo, take dense coding in stride, and think Alice is a necessary kind of crazy. Lighthaven First and most critical to minimizing P(doom), look at the adorable doggie! His name is Leo. As best I could tell from asking others, he's not attached to the site, he hails from one of the adjacent properties and just likes the people. I was going to nominate him as the LessOnline mascot, but must admit that Agendra might be more appropriate. Ahem. So. Lighthaven (the venue) names all its buildings after mathematicians, and the space looks exactly like you would expect a mathematician to want it to look. Every wall was a whiteboard; every not-otherwise-used flat surface held books along the lines of GEB. The public spaces were organized in such a way as to encourage 4-8 person conversations, usually near a whiteboard. The semiprivate dorms supplied more Stuff than the average hotel (e.g. I brought things like earplugs and sleep masks, only to find that was taken care of). The presentation room seating was surprisingly comfortable. The outdoor turf was easy on the feet (I went almost all week shoeless, which feels nicer than you'd think). Food was catered, snacks were available 24/7, supply cabinets held a wide array of random necessities. Power plugs were everywhere. In short, someone put considerable thought into eliminating the stupid fiddly bits of life in general and conventions in particular. That last part seems more important than is obvious. An obnoxiously large proportion of life goes towards 1. doing the stupid fiddly bits, 2. procrastinating about doing the stupid fiddly bits, and 3. worrying about procrastinating too much about doing the stupid fiddly bits. Even at conventions, that's usually an issue, because I have to pack and fly and unpack and make sure I know where food and water is and that all my stuff is charged and that there's a backu...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Reflections on Less Online, published by Error on July 7, 2024 on LessWrong. Meta: This post turned out longer, slower, and less well-written than I hoped. I don't see any similar posts in a quick search, though, so I'm posting it anyway. I've tried to front-load feedback that might be useful to the organizers, and put more personal stuff towards the end. For context, I attended LessOnline and the Manifest-branded Summer Camp, but not Manifest itself, and my main prior experience with events like this is fandom conventions such as (local to me) Dragoncon. As I left the Lighthaven dorm to find breakfast, five people at a table in the courtyard invited me to join a game of Zendo. This was the first notable thing to happen to me at LessOnline. It was also the thing that convinced me that yes, the trip across the country to attend would be Worth It. I have never played Zendo before, and don't expect to play it again anytime soon. That the game was specifically Zendo is not important. The important part is that five people in the same place knew what Zendo is and found that kind of game worth playing. There's an attitude that I associate with normies, aptly summarized by Tycho Brahe (the writer, not the astronomer) as: "Many people respond to new information, especially densely coded information, as something between an insult and a chop to the trachea." There's a different attitude, one that I associate with security mindset, aptly summarized by John Gordon as: "Alice will happily attempt, with someone she doesn't trust, whom she cannot hear clearly, and who is probably someone else, to fiddle her tax returns and to organise a coup d'etat, while at the same time minimising the cost of the phone call. A coding theorist is someone who doesn't think Alice is crazy." A lot of things happened over the course of my trip, but what made it worth it wasn't any particular event. It was spending a week around the sort of people that play Zendo, take dense coding in stride, and think Alice is a necessary kind of crazy. Lighthaven First and most critical to minimizing P(doom), look at the adorable doggie! His name is Leo. As best I could tell from asking others, he's not attached to the site, he hails from one of the adjacent properties and just likes the people. I was going to nominate him as the LessOnline mascot, but must admit that Agendra might be more appropriate. Ahem. So. Lighthaven (the venue) names all its buildings after mathematicians, and the space looks exactly like you would expect a mathematician to want it to look. Every wall was a whiteboard; every not-otherwise-used flat surface held books along the lines of GEB. The public spaces were organized in such a way as to encourage 4-8 person conversations, usually near a whiteboard. The semiprivate dorms supplied more Stuff than the average hotel (e.g. I brought things like earplugs and sleep masks, only to find that was taken care of). The presentation room seating was surprisingly comfortable. The outdoor turf was easy on the feet (I went almost all week shoeless, which feels nicer than you'd think). Food was catered, snacks were available 24/7, supply cabinets held a wide array of random necessities. Power plugs were everywhere. In short, someone put considerable thought into eliminating the stupid fiddly bits of life in general and conventions in particular. That last part seems more important than is obvious. An obnoxiously large proportion of life goes towards 1. doing the stupid fiddly bits, 2. procrastinating about doing the stupid fiddly bits, and 3. worrying about procrastinating too much about doing the stupid fiddly bits. Even at conventions, that's usually an issue, because I have to pack and fly and unpack and make sure I know where food and water is and that all my stuff is charged and that there's a backu...

06/12/2024, Keido Keith Baker, dharma talk at City Center. This talk was given by Keido Keith Baker at Beginner's Mind Temple, San Francisco. The Han's wooden knock calls countless practitioners to come to the Zendo for meditation. Indoors or outside, it's hard to miss its distinctive urgent rolldown. It's familiar hand-painted message encourages us all to not to waste time; that the life we have to understand birth and death, is short and passing quickly. Keido Keith shares some thoughts on the Great Matter of impermanence as seen from the view of the Han. Why is The Great Matter so urgent, and what are we being called to understand? Penetrating the surface of Birth and Death, we begin to find deeper meaning and a non-dualistic side by coming to understand impermanence, and interdependence.

This week, Master Keizan tells us what Zazen is, and is not (and also to have clean feet). Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum: June 2024, Monthly Zazenkai »

Transcript (includes errors)Hello.Welcome to Walk Around.This is Hudson Gardner.I am sitting at the edge of a field where the trees come out a little bit into the grass.And there's a little secret spot surrounded by hawthorn trees, there's an aspen that has a lot of young aspen around it.And down beneath the willow tree is a place that I come and make a little fire and have tea.I want to tell you a story today.Something that happened 10 summers ago, which feels like a different life, completely different time.a different world,a different person who was living and somehow that person was me and it was thesame life in the same world.A hummingbird just landed on a twig of this little snag and he's just watching me.I almost feel like he's listening.So I'll tell him the story too.Ten years ago,I was living in southeast Nebraska in the town that I more or less grew up incalled Lincoln.And I was getting ready to do something.I had been there a long time.My luck was running out.There was a general feeling of uncertainty, major change coming that I sensed.I had gotten out of a relationship that was,had been about three years long and it was a messy breakup and it was a hard time.My mom was living on a farm outside of town.And so I was staying in one of the guest rooms as I figured out what I was going todo with my 25-year-old life.And back then I felt that I didn'treally have a conviction yet about who I was or what I had to offer I had thebeginnings of it but it was more like just a question and it's safe to say that Inow know what that answer is but how to do it is still elusive but back then I'doften go out to this zendooutside of town on a farm called Branched Oak Farm.It's a dairy farm with probably 15, 20 Jersey cows, some pigs, chickens.Pretty sure it's still going.And it was the best milk I've ever tasted in my life came from that place.Deep, deep yellow.I've never had anything like it.There's something about the pastures in the Great Plains that are just unlike anyother place from all those millions of years of bison and care.And one time I went out to the Zendo and I was in a strange headspace, I guess.I mean, who doesn't go to a Zendo in a strange headspace?And I went out there and before I went to the Zendo that day, I went out to thislittle reservoir nearby.It's the namesake of the farm, Branchtoke Reservoir, Branchtoke Lake.And below the Branchtoke Lake,there's a series of less hills that were blown there by the wind over millennia.And there's grass and trees and little groves of flowers andI pulled off on the dirt road and in Nebraska you pull off on a dirt road 20minutes outside of town and you can sit there for an hour and you don't see anybody else.It's a quiet place.And it was probably one of those days like today,beautiful,sunny,big puffy cumulonimbus clouds growing on the horizon,some kind of storm forming in the distance.the wind blowing across the grass and I went into this draw and I don't know what drew me there.I just had a feeling that I should go there and I walked up through the grass and Icame to a grove of plants and I had this intense feeling inside of methis anger at myself for being so old and so incompetent.I felt like I didn't know anything about the world,like I'd been wasting my life sitting around putting myself through school andcollege that I didn't want to go to,staying probably too long in a relationship that wasn't good for me or for theother person,unfortunately.And just being too comfortable.And so I had all those feelings when I walked into the draw and I knew I was on the brink of change.It felt that way.And I felt so angry and there was this plant, there's a big patch of them.And I thought I'm going to show that I have some competence.And I know what to do when I'm out in the wild places.And I took out my knife, which is something I would never do now.And I used it to dig up the root of one of these plants.And it was a pale white root.And it smelled like carrots.But it was not carrot.It was hemlock.And I ate it.And I didn't die.I've been thinking about why that happened.I've never really figured it out for all these years.And the fact is there's so many things to learn in the world and there's so many ways to learn.There's such an expansion of possibility, so much beauty.so much intricacy, so much information.And then it's also so simple.And because of that, it's so heartrendingly elegant and it's so beautiful.And it's taken me 10 years to find out what the simplistic, elegant message from that plant was for me.And it happened just a few days ago.I was harvesting hawthorn flowers with a friend.And there's this kind of back corner of this tree.pasture I live on and it's all overgrown with roses and blackberries and it's allbrambly and thorny and there's a bunch of hawthorn trees back there and we werekind of going through this shadowy shady part and as I was going through there withmy orchard ladder and picking bag moving on to the next tree I suddenly realized Iwas surrounded by hemlockAnd it wasn't even that I saw them.It was almost that I just sensed that they were there.And I didn't even pause.I just thought, well, hello.Hello again.It's been about 10 years.It's definitely been 10 years since that plant showed up that intensely to me.And there it was again.And in this case, the hawthorn had led me there.As the next few days went by, I thought about my discovery of that plant here.And I thought about that time a long time ago where I nearly could have died and about my encounter with it thistime and what it might be telling meAnd I believe that there's a part of life and a part of us that if a person is notliving according to their code or to something that matters to them,we're really on the process of finding that out or being genuine and honest thatthe body itself and maybe our spirit in some way will begin toa series of self-destructive mechanisms because there's no point in living life without meaning.And somehow our bodies know that more than our rational minds.And at that point, 10 years ago, I was led to that plant because my bodyMy senses, my spirit were saying, no, you cannot stay here anymore.You can't just live out your life in this little corner of the world.You can't be comfortable anymore.You need to go out and find yourself.And so I did.I planned to move to Oregon and then two weeks,maybe even,I think it was two days before that I decided to move to Vermont and I didn't knowa single person in the state.I think a friend of mine was traveling through fortunately.And so I connected with her and somehow I found a place to be.But that started off this whole chain reaction,this trajectory of where I am now,which is someone who has an understanding of themselves and their abilities and whofeels some level of competence in the world.I've gone from misidentifying hemlock and almost dying to having a relationshipwith the plant and to knowing hundreds of plants and to beingon the path of a physician or a healer or someone who helps others.And that's the type of competency that's hard to achieve.But I believe that I will achieve it.And so now I don't even need tohave my spirit endanger me in order to know that I'm at another point of departure.All I need to do is see that plant and think, oh yes, this guy again.I just need to pay attention.As you all know,or some of you,or maybe not most,but a few,I have been in the process of entering school for acupuncture and Chinese medicinethis fall.And I recently decided that it was too much.I don't want to go into debt.I don't want to compromise my health for three years at a program that's going to run me ragged andI mean,if you think about it,it's going to possibly push me to achieve things I never thought I could,but not on my own terms.So I don't know what the point of that is.I think I'm going to find my own way to practice medicine.And, um, a friend of mine is starting a cohort that I'm going to join and we'll see where that goes.But it won't lead to a license.So it's going to be curious to see how it will work out for me.But I believe in myself and in my abilities.I believe in what I see and understand.And I believe in living a life on my own terms as much as I can.I believe in freedom.And I think by living this path, my most genuine path, that I'll be saved from despair and depression.And I will eventually find belonging.That's the message that I've learned from Hamlock.Thank you for listening. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.walkaround.run

This week, Master Keizan offers practical advice, relevant even today, although some bits maybe more suited to the 13th Century, on one's life surrounding Zazen Practice. Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum: Treeleaf Sangha's May Monthly Zazenkai »

We continue our series on Master Keizan's 'Zazen-Yōjinki'or 'Notes to Keep in Heart for Zazen' Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum: HERE»

— “The self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a human being with dampened and inhibited powers.” Valeria interviews Roman Gelperin — He is the author of  “THE MASTER MIND OF THE SELF-ACTUALIZING PERSON: The Life and Legacy of Abraham Maslow, and My Sudden Awakening into Self-Actualization and five other titles. Roman Gelperin injured his back lifting weights when he was twenty. He spent the next year nearly unable to walk, and in searing nerve pain all of his waking hours. And it was the best thing that ever happened to him. Having lost his physical health, he achieved perfect psychological health—what the psychologist Abraham Maslow called self-actualization.   Through deep introspection, he resolved all of his psychological problems. And since then, he has been writing books on the different insights this has provided him into human psychology.  Roman is the author of six self-published nonfiction books addressing different facets of psychological health. They are: Addiction, Procrastination, and Laziness: A Proactive Guide to the Psychology of Motivation, And It Was All Your Fault: Unraveling the Inner Psychology of Depression, How it Begins, and What Cures It, Self-Actualized by Poker: The Path from Categorical Learning to Free-Thinking, The Master Mind of the Self-Actualizing Person: The Life and Legacy of Abraham Maslow, and My Sudden Awakening into Self-Actualization, On Rotting Prison Straw: The Self-Actualization of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and To Set a Soul of Fire: The Life and Psychology of Ayn Rand.  Roman Gelperin works as a full-time Montessori Teacher for preschool children aged three to six.  Roman has a BA in psychology from Stony Brook University. He was a Research Assistant at Dr. Ellen Langer's Harvard Mindfulness Lab. He is a member of MENSA, with a top 99th percentile IQ. He is a Zendo-trained Psychedelic Peer Support specialist, and has trice worked as a Zendo volunteer providing peer support at Burning Man and similar festivals. Roman is thirty-three and lives in the Boston area. To learn more about Roman Gelperin and his work, please visit: https://www.romangelperin.com/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/romangelperin/                 — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.  

01/20/2024, Kyoshin Wendy Lewis, dharma talk at City Center. Now our community is meeting only in the single room of the Zendo. What are some teachings on Sangha transformation in a Zendo? How can we see forms of the infinite, miraculous Dharma embedded through tradition and visualization in this shared space? This lecture explores such teachings in a verbal and visual presentation.

01/17/2024, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at City Center. In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, Shosan explores how we are practicing with the current physical changes to the temple space. This year, our urban temple is “residents out, contractors in.” Dogen Zenji once taught that Sangha Treasure appears equally in the vast openness of being or within a particle of dust; that to help people it can transform to an Ocean Storehouse or to sutras written on shells and leaves.

"There was no specific place, or a safe space at these events for someone who was having a challenging experience and hold them as the experience unfolded" - Ben Halper. Isra Garcia interviews Ben Halper at the Psychedelic Science 2023 conference about psychedelics, mainly on applying harm reduction principles to support individuals exploring psychedelic states, recognizing that challenging experiences can be opportunities for self-exploration and healing. Ben is the Event Service Manager at Zendo Project. This platform provides professional, comprehensive harm reduction education and support for communities to help inform and transform difficult psychedelic experiences into opportunities for learning and growth. He's also a Sanctuary Coordinator and yoga instructor and works in plant medicine, facilitating in private practice. "Over 90% of psychedelic usage happens outside a medical context." In this interview, Isra and Ben go deeper into the four principles for psychedelic peer support and harm reduction: safe space, sitting and not guiding, challenging is not necessarily difficult and talking through and not down. Ben also talks about psychedelic best practices and how the Zendo project has shaped his life and has impacted people's psychedelic experiences. Other topics include challenging psychedelic experiences, rituals, meditative and awareness practices, odd habits, motivations, biggest lessons or creating the proper set & setting, and many more wisdom bites. "This work breaks my heart - Ben Halper. Ben is also a founding board member of the Pittsburgh Psychedelic Society and co-produced the MAPS-sponsored Sleeping Octopus Assembly on Psychedelics conferences in 2018 and 2019. "Prayer through sound is a technology that allows me to connect." Index of contents - and what you will learn in this episode: Working with Maps and at Zendo. What it is Zendo Project, story and public training on psychedelics harm reduction. Peer support for someone going through a psychedelic experience. The four basic principles for harm reduction and its impact when applied to festivals and events. The psychedelic experience is happening outside of the medical or clinical setting.  How this seven years working at the Zendo project has already shaped Ben Halper. Ben Halper's lifetime milestones so far. Proven and essential practices for dealing with psychedelic substances and people under those effects. Ben Halper's most effective meditative and awareness practice. Weirdest habit. How the Zendo project has influenced Ben's personal psychedelic experiences. Ben Halper's rituals. His motivations outside Zendo. The three most essential things for Ben. Rapid-fire questions. The biggest lesson Ben Halper learned from working at Zendo. Where to find Ben. Parting thoughts. "Safe space is a well of being." Podcast show notes, resources and links: Zendo Project. MAPS. Psychedelic Science 2023. Inner Space - book. The Mythic Masculine - podcast. Rick Doblin interview. East Forest interview on Psychedelic Science 2023. Psilocibina Ciencia y Experiencia - Spanish platform. "We are not here to provide any modalities other than a grounded meditative presence is the anchor that somebody can be with as the experience unfolds." This is Ben Halper's podcast interview: Zendo Project by MAPS, Psychedelic peer support and harm reduction, psychedelic best practices and how to use psychedelics responsibly, consciously and mindfully, how to make the most out of a festival using psychedelics responsibly. "I don't want to compare myself to anybody else or judge their path as if they're successful. I am proud of myself."

Stefan Bauberger ist Physiker und Philosoph. Diese scheinbar gegensätzlichen Welten bringt er in seiner Forschungstätigkeit zusammen: Seit 2012 ist er Professor für Naturphilosophie an der Hochschule für Philosophie München. Aber nicht nur das: Als Zen-Meister gibt er Kurse und leitet ein "Zendo", ein Meditationszentrum in Bayern. Computer haben Stefan Bauberger von Anfang fasziniert - und er hat ihre Entwicklung als theoretischer Physiker von den Anfängen an mitverfolgt und auch praktisch als Programmierer umgesetzt. Er weiß: Die Digitalisierung gehört zu den zentralen und wichtigsten Themen unserer Zeit. Und damit natürlich auch die künstliche Intelligenz. Ein Thema, über das überall diskutiert wird, spätestens seit Erscheinen der KI-Software "Chat GPT". Die Reaktionen gehen dabei von absoluter Begeisterung bis hin zu absoluter Skepsis. Wie wird sich unsere Gesellschaft in Zukunft durch KI verändern? Wie die Arbeitswelt, Bildung, Forschung, Medizin und Politik? Welche Unternehmen werden sich in diesem Bereich am ehesten durchsetzen und zu neuen Tech-Giganten werden? Und: Wie viel KI ist wirklich gut für uns? Moderation: Nabil Atassi

What does it mean if you let yourself age as nature intended? No more botox. No more hair coloring. No injections. For me, this could send me in a full-blown panic attack. And it's a larger conversation over how beauty and youth take up so much real estate in our minds. And for what? My guest today is world-renowned and celebrity favorite yoga and meditation teacher, best-selling author, and mindfulness coach, Elena Brower. She's the host of the chart-topping Practice You podcast and boy, this conversation took a very unexpected hard-left turn.APPLY for the Effective Collective here (only a few spots left): https://allisonhare.com/collectiveBook a Free Call with Allison - if you're a mother that knows you are made for more, let's talkELENA BROWER'S LINKS and resources mentioned:Elena Brower's WebsiteIGElena's New collection of poems Softening Time (releases 5/16)Healing Heart - Elena Brower's spoken word from Above & BeyondAsia Suler - author of Mirrors in the Earth episode of Late LearnerSTUFF #1 StudySTUFF #2 StudyALLISON HARE'S LINKS:EFFECTIVE COLLECTIVE MASTERMIND: Apply and schedule a no-risk call here.AllisonHare.com - Late Learner Podcast, personal journal and blog, danceInstagram - Steps to heal yourself, move society forward, and slinging memes and dancing (seriously, Allison is also a dance fitness instructor)Late Learner IGYouTube ChannelBlog - quick, way more personal, deeper topics - make sure to subscribeTikTok - documenting my journey one lo-fi video at a timeReb3l Dance Fitness - Try it at home! Free month with code: ahare under Instructor ReferralPersonal Brand - need help building yours? Schedule a call with me here and let's discuss.Feedback and Contact:: allison@allisonhare.com

Last year while I was working with Zendo at Burning Man, I got to hear Dr. Carl Hart talk about “psychedelic exceptionalism.” Essentially, he talked about some concerning language he's noticed in psychedelic-focused conversations. These narratives are creating “psychedelic exceptionalism” that, in his opinion, perpetuate harmful narratives around stigmatized drugs like heroin, methamphetamine, and crack cocaine - and indirectly, the people who choose to use them. Psychedelic exceptionalism refers to the perspective that psychedelics are somehow better and more useful than other classes of drugs like opioids or stimulants. Especially when it comes to recreational use of these substances. Trust me, when I first heard him say that I was like… but… psychedelics ARE more beneficial! But after listening to him talk and speaking with him afterward, I realized that one of the main points of encouraging people to take a step back and try to have a different perspective is that ALL drugs are psychoactive. So it would be remiss to say that some are special and some are evil. Or that psychedelics get glorified while others have been demoralized since the War on Drugs. When we choose to think this way - that some drugs can be vilified (along with those who choose to use them) - we end up with harsher penalties and increased marginalization. That creates more separation between us as humans. For example, MDMA and methamphetamine have very similar chemical structures. Yet we have very different images of those drugs and the people who use them. And those who have a drug of choice that they want to encourage for medicinal reasons get nervous about being stigmatized with other drugs. Of course, all of this blew my mind at the time, but I think as a culture it would behoove many of us in modern industrialized society to get really curious about things. Sit in discomfort. Notice if we have resistance and where that is, and soften the edges a little and consider… What IF this were true? Dr. Hart goes on to emphasize that what's important is that we do what's right as a human being, for human beings. A humanitarian perspective. We all are doing the same thing - wanting to alter our consciousness to feel better and suffer less. Because life can be hard, and we all want to feel better. So if we judge some people who do that with one drug vs another, even if they don't have much choice about what they have access to, we aren't respecting other people's humanity. Now, as a nurse and someone who has worked in rural and underserved areas, I have seen how horrific the opioid crisis can be. So how can someone say mushrooms aren't any better than heroin or fentanyl? Dr. Hart says, “it's not up to me to decide what drug people use. If they choose heroin over mushrooms, that's their decision as autonomous adults.” Plus, if we're talking about paranoia at large doses, mushrooms are more dangerous. And while opioids can produce a physical dependence more easily than mushrooms, alcohol can too. Yet the vast majority of people in the country don't have a big problem with alcohol, and it's legal. I love that in one interview with NPR, Dr. Hart says it's always disturbed him when people identify themselves as a “psychedelic community.” That people are all taking some psychoactive substance for the same mind-altering reason, but then we draw a line with which drugs are better than others. One critique I've read about Dr. Hart's views in a Harvard Law Blog wonders, if we toss all drugs together in one big basket… isn't that a bit reductionist? Like psilocybin mushrooms have a relatively great safety profile and high potential as a therapeutic intervention. Especially in the context of the mental health challenges so many are facing today. On the other hand, we can't completely ignore the harms of NOT addressing the decriminalization of non-psychedelic substances. The author agrees that the War on Drugs is “racist, ineffective, and draconian.” I encourage you to listen to the full episode to hear the examples I give on this, but the psychedelic decriminalization we're seeing in multiple states can pave the way for larger drug reform that will address these disparities. The author of the blog goes on to talk about how we can reschedule controlled substances to help reduce stigmatization and allow for further research and uniform regulation for medical and - as appropriate - adult use purposes. Another interesting perspective, right? And I think, once again, I will likely find myself landing in the middle. Because I can see how both of these views overlap like a venn diagram… that mandorla… where no matter how much we'd feel safer on one side than the other, it's the place most of humanity's experience takes place - in the middle. What do you think? When you explore ehipassiko, the Buddhist concept of “come see for yourself,” what does your inner guru think of these ideas? And, if we can get out of our heads and into our heart (carrying the wise mind with us), what do you think would be the more compassionate approach for humanity? You will learn:// The definition of “psychedelic exceptionalism”// How we can look at the opioid crisis with a more humanitarian view// The potential benefits - and problems - with psychedelic exceptionalism// Whether decriminalizing psychedelics can really pave the way for larger drug reform Resources:// Episode 52: How to Live in Polarity // Episode 97: Psychedelics and Spiritual Practice // Episode 122: Come See for Yourself - Ehipassiko // Episode 152: Sensitivity and Addiction // Harvard Law's Bill of Health, “The Myth of Psychedelic Exceptionalism.”  // Interview in Psychedelics Today: “Psychedelic Exceptionalism and Reframing Drug Narratives: An Interview with Dr. Carl Hart” // NPR Interview: “'Drug Use For Grown-Ups' Serves As An Argument For Personal Choice” // If you're new to the squad, grab the Rebel Buddhist Toolkit I created at RebelBuddhist.com. It has all you need to start creating a life of more freedom, adventure, and purpose. You'll also get access to the Rebel Buddhist private group, and tune in every Wednesday as I go live with new inspiration and topics.      // Want something more self-paced with access to weekly group support and getting coached by yours truly? Check out Freedom School – the community for ALL things related to freedom, inside and out. Learn more at JoinFreedomSchool.com. I can't wait to see you there!    // Want to join me for the next cohort of the Adventure Mastermind? Visit AdventureMastermind.com to get on the waitlist to be the first to hear about the next dates and locations. If you've already done the mastermind, stay tuned for a special alumni retreat. We'll pick up right where we left off and dive even deeper!

Mike has a conversation with Dr. Cole Marta and Brooke Balliett, LMFT of the California Center for Psychedelic Therapy. Recorded Sunday, April 2nd at the Center. Topics discussed include: Preparing set and setting for a psychedelic trip, dosage differences in individual people, Ego Death, surrendering to a trip, resistance, Creatives, sharpening by amphetamines, Alex Grey, the Community of trippers, experimenting with shrooms during COVID lockdowns, Ketamine use for preventing suicide, Ecstasy vs Molly, research chemicals, dancesafe.org, Schedule One Drug License, research pharmacies, variations in unregulated street drugs, regular doses, benefits of regulated drugs, clinical benefits for mental health patients, importance of set and setting, protecting friends from bad drugs, buying drugs online, Ketamine's similarity to Nitrous, Spiritual connection, Ketamine therapy cycle, belief in God, ancient use of psychedelics, Ancient Greeks, Salem Witch Trials, Ketamine primarily used to treat depression and PTSD, common ground of psychedelic trips and deep meditation states, Default Mode Network, changes in cognition/perspective/emotionality, visuals, psychedelic replications, Replications Sub Reddit, trippy dream of Ketamine high, new client intake, prep before treatment, submitting to the process, the power of getting started, center vs clinic, unsafe feeling resulting from trauma, pre-verbal trauma, Ketamine as anesthetic, MDMA's power to helping client feel safe, treating depression with psilocybin, “Being depressed is the opposite of being excited about being alive”, debilitating depression, spectrum of personality traits, Zendo, Burning Man, lack of guidance at raves, Adavan, duration of trips, staying up overnight on LSD, post-rave kit, inability to fall asleep, feeling a trip coming on, improved dancing ability, DJ RAW, raves as church, the body as a conduit for sound, fractals in nature, tapping into new levels of being, inability to understand language while on LSD, A-Ha moments/changing perspectives, seeing through cultural illusions, “Watching the news on acid is a bad idea”, DMT, feeling of immobility, short duration, NN (orange resin) vs 5MEO (frog venom), Hamilton's Pharmacopeia, 5MEO flashbacks, using cannabis and psilocybin as entry points to the psychedelic experience, tardigrades, importance of good sourcing, situational awareness while high, Erowid.org and FiresideProject.org. Psychedelictherapyca.com Givebutter.com/CCPT-TYL

Abendvortrag am 8. März 2023 im Bodhidharma Zendo Wien. Chigan Rōshi kehrte nach über 30 Jahren zum ersten Male wieder in das Zendo in Wien zurück und hielt diesen Vortrag, Returning for the first time in 30 years Chigan Rōshi gave an evening talk at the Bodhidharma Zendo in Vienna.

“The daily grind is getting up and getting to do this thing I love” on the Daily Grind, your weekly goal-driven podcast. This episode features Kelly Johnson and special guest Pilar Westell. Westell is the owner of Zendo Coffee. Zendo is a community driven shop that focuses on creating a safe welcoming place for everyone to gather. They specialize in hand crafted coffee drinks, from traditional espresso, filter coffee, to made from scratch seasonal syrups/lattes. They also offer the finest pastries and burritos from other local businesses around town. They believe strongly in showcasing local talent, with our monthly art shows, and curated local pop up events. Overall, they are a woman run and owned small business that has been serving up the finest coffee in town since 2013. S4 Episode 45: 03/21/2023 Featuring Kelly Johnson with Special Guest Pilar Westell Audio Credit Intro: Draw The Line Mastered by Connor Christian Follow Our Podcast: Instagram: @dailygrindpod https://www.instagram.com/dailygrindpod/  Twitter: @dailygrindpod https://www.twitter.com/dailygrindpod  Podcast Website: https://direct.me/dailygrindpod  Follow Our Special Guest: Website: https://www.zendocoffee.com/  Twitter: @zendo413 https://twitter.com/Zendo413/  Instagram: @zendo413 https://www.instagram.com/zendo413/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Zendo413/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dailygrindpod/support

Show Notes: Sarah's passion is creative writing and teaching it in ways that inspire and delight others. Today she works as a writing professor at a community college and offers creative writing workshops in hospitals, libraries, alternative education programs and more. Yet Sarah considers her real work to be caring for her three children and their rural homestead through the various challenges and opportunities that come their way. Sarah Silbert, a member of the Harvard and Radcliffe class of 1992, speaks about her journey since graduating from Harvard. She explained that she had been passionate about two areas while at Harvard - social service and community service, and creative writing. She went on to explain that Harvard ran its own homeless shelter, just two blocks from Adam's House, and that this had been the start of her journey and passion for social service. Since then, she has gone on to work around the country to help those needing shelter and support with a focus on teenage runaways. In the late 90's, she became a professor at a community college where she continues to teach about the importance of civic engagement, community service, and self-awareness where she is able to use her knowledge and experience to help students make a difference in the world.   Inspired by Stories of Runaways Inspired by an anthology of creative writing collected by a reporter tracking teenage runaways, Sarah started teaching creative writing workshops in libraries, hospitals, treatment centers, and other places for troubled youth. The teens in these workshops often wrote about the idea of home, and always linked it with a yearning for belonging. Sarah's work with them over led her to reflect on her own desire for a home and to ask herself what “belonging” might mean to her.” Eventually, she realized that she wanted to live in a countryside setting and decided to pursue that goal. Building a Cabin in Vermont She applied for a series of creative writing fellowships which allowed her to stay in cabins in various locations. During her stay in the MacDowell cabin, which was once occupied by James Baldwin, she was inspired to find her own land and build a cabin. She took a house building course in Maine and looked for land in Wyoming and Eastern Washington. She wanted to create a space for young people who didn't have access to artist colonies. She was living out her teenage dream of building a cabin in Vermont. She had been given the land at a rock bottom price, but it had no water, power or road. Then, the electrical company offered her a large sum of money to put a power line across her property, which gave her the power she needed.    Coping with Illness and Grief Unfortunately, her boyfriend was diagnosed with leukemia, and they were in and out of hospitals for seven years. She was 25 or 26 at the time and had to give up her dreams of family and children to take care of him. Sarah felt a spiritual calling to be in this situation, spending many days in the hospital sleeping in a cot by his bed. Despite the hardship, it was an experience that she believes brought her closer to Jeff and taught her to appreciate life. To cope with the grief of Jeff passing,  Sarah decided to jump into a new idea of life and family. She took a year off from college to work for Mother Teresa, which she believes helped her get through the tough time.    Building a Village A few years later she was hired as a teacher at a community college, and started taking in tenants to help with the house and kids. Eventually, her tenants became her fairy godmothers, helping with the house and kids, and her neighbors and godparent also came in to help. Now, six years later, Sarah and her kids are living for their dreams. Sarah Silbert  has traveled the world and seen many different kinds of families. She has found a way to raise her three children without a spouse, but still loves having another adult around to help her with her children. To her, family means having both mom, dad and kids, but she also has a tribe of people who love and support her and her children. She is proud of her physical strength and her mental strength, which she is developing further in a leadership program. The program's motto is “how to be an island of calm in a storm”, which she applies to her own life and the lives of those around her. Harvard courses and professors who influenced Sarah include Susan Dodd, creative writing instructor, and Ed Cohen, founder of The Echoing Green Fellowship.   Timestamps: 12:20: The hardships of living off grid 17:41 Caring for a Loved One with Leukemia  22:42 The Meaning of Family and Personal Accomplishments  26:13: The dynamic tribe 32:30 Combining Physical Endurance with Mental Clarity and Stewarding Kids in Unforeseen Craziness 34:48 Taking a Year Off to Work with Mother Teresa  41:17 Exploring Adventure and Opportunity  Links: https://echoinggreen.org/ “The River We Call Ourselves” in the Sun “Fighting in the Zendo”in the Sun “The Land” in Ploughshares CONTACT INFO: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-silbert-97909111/  

Sara is a psychedelic therapist and educator. She began her MAPS journey in 2012 with the Zendo Project. Sara served as MAPS Director of Harm Reduction (2016-2020) and Harm Reduction Training and Education Coordinator (2014-2016). She contributed to the development of the Zendo Project training curriculum and has facilitated psychedelic peer support workshops worldwide. Sara was a sub-investigator for MAPS Phase 2 and Phase 3 clinical trials researching the safety and efficacy of MDMA-Assisted Therapy for the treatment of PTSD. She teaches MDMA and psychedelic-assisted therapy through MAPS and is the Lead Instructor at the Integrative Psychiatry Institute's Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Training.  Sara is passionate about helping to educate the next generation of psychedelic therapists. Sara presents at conferences and events on the topics of psychedelic-assisted therapy, harm reduction, peer support, and the potential of psychedelics as catalysts for individual, community, and collective healing. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

I hope you all had a good holiday break, but it's time to get back to business. The very serious business that is the top fifty greatest games of all time. We return to our heroes in what the enthusiasts call phase two, and boy are things heating up! Thirty more incredible games that we absolutely love are coming right at you. 00:58 - Neilan #40 - In the Year of the Dragon 03:14 - Mark #40 - Splendor 05:09 - Kellen #40 - Zendo 07:45 - Neilan #39 - Deception: Murder in Hong Kong 10:04 - Mark #39 - Iwari 13:24 - Kellen #39 - Stephenson's Rocket 15:19 - Neilan #38 - Iberian Gauge 17:11 - Mark #38 - A Feast for Odin 20:12 - Kellen #38 - Codenames 23:04 - Neilan #37 - Inis 24:47 - Mark #37 - Imperium: The Contention 26:55 - Kellen #37 - Azul 28:53 - Neilan #36 - Ark Nova 30:52 - Mark #36 - True Colors 33:07 - Kellen #36 - American Bookshop 35:02 - Neilan #35 - Rising Sun 36:23 - Mark #35 - Anomia 39:53 - Kellen #35 - Genoa 42:15 - Neilan #34 - Spirit Island 44:23 - Mark #34 - Ricochet Robots 47:37 - Kellen #34 - Agricola 49:25 - Neilan #33 - Yellow & Yangtze 51:22 - Mark #33 - Dominant Species 54:24 - Kellen #33 - Wizard 55:54 - Neilan #32 - Twice as Clever! 57:16 - Mark #32 - Cthulhu Wars 59:02 - Kellen #32 - Race for the Galaxy 1:01:40 - Neilan #31 - War of the Ring: Second Edition 1:03:52 - Mark #31 - Archipelago 1:05:30 - Kellen #31 - Pax Porfiriana Check out our wiki at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/wiki Join the discussion at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/discord Join our Facebook group at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/facebook Get a Board Game Barrage T-shirt at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/store

On this encore episode of the Psychology Talk Podcast, Dr. Scott Hoye is joined by Rebecca Hendrix. Rebecca is a Manhattan based Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in New York City and Woodstock, New York. She has advanced training in therapeutic psychedelic integration. She completed training through MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) to provide MDMA-assisted Psychotherapy (when it becomes legal). She currently offers Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy. She has presented to the lay-audiences on psychedelic medicines to increase awareness and understanding of these therapies for consumers. On this episode, Rebecca discusses her training and experience with MDMA therapy and ketamine therapy for PTSD and other maladies. The two discuss the latest developments in psychedelic therapies, the potential changes these new therapies will have on the world of behavioral health, and the promise they hold for individuals with serious, long term mental health issues. Rebecca's Article in Business Insider:https://www.insider.com/psychotherapist-advocating-for-the-legalization-of-mdma-2021-11Rebecca's Practice Website: http://www.rebeccahendrix.comResources Discussed in this episode: For Veterans: Heroic Hearts Project - https://www.heroicheartsproject.org/ VETS Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions https://vetsolutions.org/ Warrior Angels Foundation helps veterans access psychedelics https://warriorangelsfoundation.org/For Therapists Interested in Training Fluence https://www.fluencetraining.com/ CIIS https://www.ciis.edu/ Maps https://mapspublicbenefit.com/training Volunteer at Zendo https://zendoproject.org/Ketamine Training: Healing Realms https://www.healingrealmscenter.com/ Polaris https://www.polarisinsight.com/ JMF Foundation Spain https://josepmfericgla.org/web_Fundacio_JMFericgla_2/seminarios_y_formacion_seminario_ketamina.shtml Prati in CO https://pratigroup.org/ Sage https://sageinst.org/kat The Ketamine Training Center (Phil Wolfson, MD) https://theketaminetrainingcenter.com/To apply to take part in a clinical trial: https://clinicaltrials.gov/An expanded access site for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for treatment resistant PTSD will soon be open in North Carolina, open to the public. https://www.pearlpsychedelicinstitute.org/More resources: books, movies and relevant websites on my integration website www.evolveintegration.com https://evolveintegration.com/resourcesThe Psychology Talk Podcast is a unique conversation about psychology around the globe. Your host Dr. Scott Hoye discusses psychology with mental health practitioners and experts to keep you informed about issues and trends in the industry. https://psych-talk.comhttps://www.instagram.com/psychtalkpodcast/https://www.facebook.com/psychtalkpodcast

Julie Nelson speaks about our zendo forms (our rituals concerning how we walk, sit, chant, etc.), why we do them, and why we also investigate them. (A demo that may be hard to follow on audio begins at 17:30. Lively discussion resumes at 36:30). (September 10, 2022)

Hey hey, my friends! I just got back from a conference in Florida and had less than 36 hours to pack for Burning Man, where I'm going to be helping out the folks providing psychedelic support services at Zendo there … and I just couldn't do a new episode and spend time with my kiddo and family during that short window at the same time. I was thinking how maybe like 5 years ago, I would have done the damn episode, thinking I had more of an obligation to crank one out that spend time with my kid, or to try and sleep, because it was “work” and I was the primary breadwinner, so no excuses in order to provide. I'm really grateful that now I have so much more clarity about how to prioritize my life, but whew…being raised by an immigrant Filipinx mama who sacrificed so much for me makes choosing self care and small precious moments hard to choose over work sometimes. Now one of the bonuses of having your own business is you get to make your own rules. And one of my rules is living by example, so I hope that by doing this and offering you this replay about reflecting on our impermanence, that it helps you remember to prioritize what really matters. You know, it took some serious universal 2x4s hitting me upside the head to remind me that I was going to die and didn't know when - and that it's true for all of us. Not just me when I had a serious form of cancer. Not just me when I got another cancer diagnosis. Not just  when we are given a heads up that we  might not have much time left. It's after I was hit by a drunk driver. Or feeling a boulder whiz inches by my head on a climb. Or getting a message about my mom's unexpected death while checking my messages in Morocco.  Our impermanence is not a thing to pay attention to just when something really horrible happens.  This sacred moment for us will happen in an ordinary moment, just. like. this one. Which is why I picked this Greatest Hits topic to replay for you today.  Think about this for a minute: if you knew – like really knew – you only had a year or a month or however long left to live, how would your mindset change? How many of those inner obstacles currently holding you back would fall away if you truly grasped the impermanent nature of your own life? Because we think we have time, we spend time on habits (mental, physical, and spiritual) that distract us from creating the life we're meant to live. We allow ourselves to remain in that comfortable cocoon of “for now” because we'd really rather avoid having to deal with the anxiety, fear and overwhelm that we'd have to overcome to take action. We wait for… another time. We put the important things off. We put off the big adventure – and it's not just the adventures we put off We put off the inner work, too We put off forgiving that thing that happened a long ass time ago. We put off telling someone we love them We put off just letting ourselves be fucking happy already. One of the main reasons we do this is because we believe we will have tomorrow, or next month, or next year, or after we retire, or after we graduate, or after we get the raise… But we don't know that. Today we're digging into a couple topics that many people like to avoid the most: the true impermanence of our time here on earth, and the big kicker, the uncomfiest of subjects: death. But hang with me, there's a method to this madness! The first step to changing our mindsets and our actions to create the lives we really want, we have to talk about these things. To recognize, sit with and meet them head on. Because when we fully realize 1. how precious, fleeting, and miraculous this life of ours is, and 2. we are going to die and we don't know when—that is when we truly start living. Our hearts open, we give love freely, we find the courage to face our fears and start living the way we've been longing to, right now. Believe me, I learned this the hard way. It isn't just me who thinks all this. Meditating on the preciousness and impermanence of this human life are the first two steps on the Tibetan Buddhist Path to Enlightenment. In this tradition, it isn't until you have grasped these two concepts that you can move on to the other stages on the path to enlightenment. And you know what? The other truth is, if you're living a life that is not in alignment with your truth, with who you are…an authentic life of love, compassion and integrity and whatever else you value – freedom, passion, joy, adventure  –  then life is going to feel too long – no matter how short. So you see, the preciousness of this life, the impermanence of it, death…these things aren't something we should ignore or put off as depressing. When we are aware of them, we live life more fully. And while we can't live every day like it's our last, we CAN ask ourselves what would make today a good day? One we have no regrets about. One that might even be a good day to die. Or at least not be a shitty day to die. I invite you to be brave today, to sit with these topics that may have previously been sources of fear and anxiety for you, and to see them in a new light – a sexy light. A liberating light. And a motivating one. I hope that at the very least, this replay helps you think of one thing you can do today that you normally wouldn't have done because you have a moment of clarity about what really matters. In This Episode You'll Learn:// How to stop avoiding thinking about death – and how to instead acknowledge what facing it can teach you about living now// A few ways to shift your mindset about impermanence + use it to mentally reframe your own narrative // About one of my biggest regrets in life and some life-altering decisions I made along the way – how they pushed me to create the life I wanted and live in integrity// Why your fear of death is actually your deeper fear that you have not lived your truest life (Steve Chandler)// How to stop putting off the things that make us happy for ‘another time' and start living fully now// Why we must recognize the preciousness of human life in order to take real action toward making the most of the time we have Resources// Join the waitlist for the Adventure Mastermind at AdventureMastermind.com and save the dates for the first retreat of the next round, sometime the week of March 25th in Baja, Mexico. Get clear about your unique Soul purpose and how to create a life that supports it during this one precious life we have. // If you're new to the squad, grab the Rebel Buddhist Toolkit I created at RebelBuddhist.com. It has all you need to start creating a life of more freedom, adventure, and purpose. You'll also get access to the Rebel Buddhist FB group, and tune in weekly when I go live on new topics.// Want to dive into this work on a deeper level on your own time? To study it and practice it together with a group of people with the same goals of freedom, adventure and purpose? Check out Freedom School – the community for ALL things related to freedom, inside and out

Hey hey, my friends! I just got back from a conference in Florida and had less than 36 hours to pack for Burning Man, where I'm going to be helping out the folks providing psychedelic support services at Zendo there … and I just couldn't do a new episode and spend time with my kiddo and family during that short window at the same time. I was thinking how maybe like 5 years ago, I would have done the damn episode, thinking I had more of an obligation to crank one out that spend time with my kid, or to try and sleep, because it was “work” and I was the primary breadwinner, so no excuses in order to provide. I'm really grateful that now I have so much more clarity about how to prioritize my life, but whew…being raised by an immigrant Filipinx mama who sacrificed so much for me makes choosing self care and small precious moments hard to choose over work sometimes. Now one of the bonuses of having your own business is you get to make your own rules. And one of my rules is living by example, so I hope that by doing this and offering you this replay about reflecting on our impermanence, that it helps you remember to prioritize what really matters. You know, it took some serious universal 2x4s hitting me upside the head to remind me that I was going to die and didn't know when - and that it's true for all of us. Not just me when I had a serious form of cancer. Not just me when I got another cancer diagnosis. Not just  when we are given a heads up that we  might not have much time left. It's after I was hit by a drunk driver. Or feeling a boulder whiz inches by my head on a climb. Or getting a message about my mom's unexpected death while checking my messages in Morocco.  Our impermanence is not a thing to pay attention to just when something really horrible happens.  This sacred moment for us will happen in an ordinary moment, just. like. this one. Which is why I picked this Greatest Hits topic to replay for you today.  Think about this for a minute: if you knew – like really knew – you only had a year or a month or however long left to live, how would your mindset change? How many of those inner obstacles currently holding you back would fall away if you truly grasped the impermanent nature of your own life? Because we think we have time, we spend time on habits (mental, physical, and spiritual) that distract us from creating the life we're meant to live. We allow ourselves to remain in that comfortable cocoon of “for now” because we'd really rather avoid having to deal with the anxiety, fear and overwhelm that we'd have to overcome to take action. We wait for… another time. We put the important things off. We put off the big adventure – and it's not just the adventures we put off We put off the inner work, too We put off forgiving that thing that happened a long ass time ago. We put off telling someone we love them We put off just letting ourselves be fucking happy already. One of the main reasons we do this is because we believe we will have tomorrow, or next month, or next year, or after we retire, or after we graduate, or after we get the raise… But we don't know that. Today we're digging into a couple topics that many people like to avoid the most: the true impermanence of our time here on earth, and the big kicker, the uncomfiest of subjects: death. But hang with me, there's a method to this madness! The first step to changing our mindsets and our actions to create the lives we really want, we have to talk about these things. To recognize, sit with and meet them head on. Because when we fully realize 1. how precious, fleeting, and miraculous this life of ours is, and 2. we are going to die and we don't know when—that is when we truly start living. Our hearts open, we give love freely, we find the courage to face our fears and start living the way we've been longing to, right now. Believe me, I learned this the hard way. It isn't just me who thinks all this. Meditating on the preciousness and impermanence of this human life are the first two steps on the Tibetan Buddhist Path to Enlightenment. In this tradition, it isn't until you have grasped these two concepts that you can move on to the other stages on the path to enlightenment. And you know what? The other truth is, if you're living a life that is not in alignment with your truth, with who you are…an authentic life of love, compassion and integrity and whatever else you value – freedom, passion, joy, adventure  –  then life is going to feel too long – no matter how short. So you see, the preciousness of this life, the impermanence of it, death…these things aren't something we should ignore or put off as depressing. When we are aware of them, we live life more fully. And while we can't live every day like it's our last, we CAN ask ourselves what would make today a good day? One we have no regrets about. One that might even be a good day to die. Or at least not be a shitty day to die. I invite you to be brave today, to sit with these topics that may have previously been sources of fear and anxiety for you, and to see them in a new light – a sexy light. A liberating light. And a motivating one. I hope that at the very least, this replay helps you think of one thing you can do today that you normally wouldn't have done because you have a moment of clarity about what really matters. In This Episode You'll Learn:// How to stop avoiding thinking about death – and how to instead acknowledge what facing it can teach you about living now// A few ways to shift your mindset about impermanence + use it to mentally reframe your own narrative // About one of my biggest regrets in life and some life-altering decisions I made along the way – how they pushed me to create the life I wanted and live in integrity// Why your fear of death is actually your deeper fear that you have not lived your truest life (Steve Chandler)// How to stop putting off the things that make us happy for ‘another time' and start living fully now// Why we must recognize the preciousness of human life in order to take real action toward making the most of the time we have Resources// Join the waitlist for the Adventure Mastermind at AdventureMastermind.com and save the dates for the first retreat of the next round, sometime the week of March 25th in Baja, Mexico. Get clear about your unique Soul purpose and how to create a life that supports it during this one precious life we have. // If you're new to the squad, grab the Rebel Buddhist Toolkit I created at RebelBuddhist.com. It has all you need to start creating a life of more freedom, adventure, and purpose. You'll also get access to the Rebel Buddhist FB group, and tune in weekly when I go live on new topics.// Want to dive into this work on a deeper level on your own time? To study it and practice it together with a group of people with the same goals of freedom, adventure and purpose? Check out Freedom School – the community for ALL things related to freedom, inside and out

A talk given at Berkeley Zen Center on Saturday, August 27th 2022 by Laurie Senauke.

ARoben Orden talks on "Returning to the Green Gulch Zendo and Contemplating our Meal Chant" at the Everyday Zen July 2022 All Day Sitting. https://s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/edz.assets/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/05105325/Returning-to-the-Green-Gulch-Zendo-and-Contemplating-our-Meal-Chant-ARobin-Orden-All-Day-Sitting-July-2022.mp3

In the last episode, I talked about the new phenomenon of a virtual space for practice, including its merits and benefits. In this episode, I talk about the merits of practicing in a "Dirt Zendo" - a physical practice space, in-the-flesh. I then describe, at Bright Way Zen, we are attempting to create a sense of Sangha that connects and includes anyone who practices with us, regardless of whether they participate in-the-flesh, online (in our Cloud Zendo), or both.

Since COVID lockdown, Buddhist communities have greatly expanded their online practice opportunities. Virtual spaces are surprisingly effective for practice and building a sense of Sangha. Many Buddhist and Zen centers are now facing the prospect of permanently including options for virtual participation, which brings many opportunities but also many challenges. I discuss how the virtual and physical practice spaces look at my Zen center, and how we structure hybrid meetings. Then I talk about the merits of what we call the "Cloud Zendo." In my next episode, I'll discuss the merits of a good old-fashioned physical practice space, which we call the "Dirt Zendo," and the ways my Zen center is trying to integrate and care for both of our Zendos and create a sense of being one Sangha.

Leonardo Canneto is an Argentinian musician, composer, music producer, and meditation guide. Leo began his musical career at age 18, after moving to New York City from Buenos Aires. He made 5 records over a period of 7 years and did extensive touring as a singer and multi-instrumentalist. Leo was taught Vedic Meditation by renowned teacher Thom Knowles, and he has maintained his meditation practice since then. His lifelong passions are eastern philosophy, the healing powers of psychedelic medicine ritual, community, music, and meditation. Leo launched Zendo Stereo in 2018. He has performed for over 4000 people in person and via livestreams, with performances in public and private venues across the United States. In 2020, Leo was invited by MIT Santa Barbara to be a keynote speaker with a presentation titled “Music, Mindfulness and Altered States”   In this podcast, Leo enlightens us by answering three questions:   1. What's your zone of genius? 2. How's your love life? 3. Why do you do what you do?   We end by discussing WeDeepen x Zendo Stereo collaborations and retreats.    You can find more about Leo and Zendo Stereo at zendostereo.com.  

It's about time! FTM talks about the Newest album from hip-hop artist Saba: Few good things. Graye, Zendo, and Julian all are excited to be talking about the 3rd studio album from the Pivot Gang pack leader. Thank you all for your continued support and helping us get to 26 episodes. It almost seems as of we just started yesterday! - Graye --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/facingthemusic/support

Today we're joined by Dr Baron Short, an Interventional Psychiatrist at the Medical University of South Carolina, and co-founder of Zendo, an electronic device that purports to enhance both the experience and the long-term benefits of meditation.How might a direct current of electricity to the brain affect our meditation? This is not a hypothetical question. All three of us – two hosts and one guide – wire up, select the highest possible setting, and ride out the hum. Tasha and Baron go to Bliss-land. Jeff goes... somewhere else!Baron's guidance is lovely and supportive and useful for everyone  – you do not need electronic pads to get something out of this meditation. In fact, his 14-minute practice is a kind of guided tour of meditative landmarks many of us experience, from “the body drop” to the “stickiness of thoughts” and more.After the practice, we get into an animated discussion about the pros and cons of technologically-enhanced meditation. Do we need it? Why or why not? Have we always been enhanced, and what might a more enhanced evolutionary future look like? Much ensues from the Zendo tingle!To go straight to Baron's 14-minute guided meditation, it begins at 14:00 and ends at 28:00.LinksZendo website: ​​https://zendomeditation.comDr Short's clinician page at the Medical University of South Carolina: https://providers.muschealth.org/sc/mount-pleasant/edward-baron-short-md-mscrSupport the show

On this episode of the Psychology Talk Podcast, Dr. Scott Hoye is joined by Rebecca Hendrix. Rebecca is a Manhattan based Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in New York City and Woodstock, New York. She has advanced training in therapeutic psychedelic integration. She completed training through MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) to provide MDMA-assisted Psychotherapy (when it becomes legal). She currently offers Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy. She has presented to the lay-audiences on psychedelic medicines to increase awareness and understanding of these therapies for consumers. On this episode, Rebecca discusses her training and experience with MDMA therapy and ketamine therapy for PTSD and other maladies. The two discuss the latest developments in psychedelic therapies, the potential changes these new therapies will have on the world of behavioral health, and the promise they hold for individuals with serious, long term mental health issues. Rebecca's Article in Business Insider:https://www.insider.com/psychotherapist-advocating-for-the-legalization-of-mdma-2021-11Rebecca's Practice Website: http://www.rebeccahendrix.comResources Discussed in this episode: For Veterans: Heroic Hearts Project - https://www.heroicheartsproject.org/ VETS Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions https://vetsolutions.org/ Warrior Angels Foundation helps veterans access psychedelics https://warriorangelsfoundation.org/For Therapists Interested in Training Fluence https://www.fluencetraining.com/ CIIS https://www.ciis.edu/ Maps https://mapspublicbenefit.com/training Volunteer at Zendo https://zendoproject.org/Ketamine Training: Healing Realms https://www.healingrealmscenter.com/ Polaris https://www.polarisinsight.com/ JMF Foundation Spain https://josepmfericgla.org/web_Fundacio_JMFericgla_2/seminarios_y_formacion_seminario_ketamina.shtml Prati in CO https://pratigroup.org/ Sage https://sageinst.org/kat The Ketamine Training Center (Phil Wolfson, MD) https://theketaminetrainingcenter.com/To apply to take part in a clinical trial: https://clinicaltrials.gov/An expanded access site for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for treatment resistant PTSD will soon be open in North Carolina, open to the public. https://www.pearlpsychedelicinstitute.org/More resources: books, movies and relevant websites on my integration website www.evolveintegration.com https://evolveintegration.com/resourcesThe Psychology Talk Podcast is a unique conversation about psychology around the globe. Your hosts Dr. Scott Hoye and licensed clinical professional counselor Kyle Miller talk about psychology with mental health practitioners and experts to keep you informed about issues and trends in the industry. https://psych-talk.comhttps://www.instagram.com/psychtalkpodcast/https://www.facebook.com/psychtalkpodcast

Graye, Zendo, and Julian take a break from the usual content and give an in depth look of their creative process and what motivates them to continue to create Facing the Music. They also focus on the creative process of other artists and the work ethic and drive it takes to achieve success as a creator. We hope you enjoy this episode and if you would like to see more content like this, please let us know! -Graye --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/facingthemusic/support