Book Reviews
Episode 140 :: Molly Hahn :: Buddha Doodles
Molly Hahn Professional artist and children’s book author Molly Hahn speaks with us today about the new release of her book Buddha Doodles Volume 2, combining art and practice, and finding ways to inspire others to grow past trauma. Transforming our lives is a benefit we enjoy from our practice. We learn to relate to…
Read MoreEpisode 139 :: Chris McKenna :: Bardo
Chris McKenna Author Chris McKenna speaks with us about his new Buddhist themed fiction book, Bardo. More and more, we’re seeing an increase in the mainstream media of Buddhist practices and ideas. There is Buddhist inspired rock and roll, art sites that focus on Buddhist themes, and happily for those of us who are avid…
Read MoreEpisode 138 :: Brad Warner :: Hardcore Zen Strikes Again
Brad Warner Zen teacher Brad Warner speaks with us about his new book, Hardcore Zen Strikes Again. Zen stories are filled with teachers doing odd things. Their behaviors, their words, can often rub people the wrong way as the softness of social constraint gives way to pointing out the realities we often lose sight of,…
Read MoreBook Review: Donald Lopez on Buddhism and Science
With The Scientific Buddha, Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan, has written a book that should be of interest to anyone who finds affinities between Buddhism and the sciences. The book is a reworked series of Terry Lectures that Lopez gave at Yale University in…
Read MoreEpisode 134 :: Andy Puddicombe :: Get Some Headspace
Andy Puddicombe Andy Puddicombe speaks with us about his site and new book, Get Some Headspace: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day. In what ways is Buddhist practice finding new forms in our contemporary society? What would a secular program of meditation look like, not just mindfulness, but also loving…
Read MoreEpisode 127 :: Richard Winter :: Power, Freedom, Compassion
Richard Winter Richard Winter speaks with us about the alignment of Buddhism and Marxism in his book, Power, Freedom, Compassion: Transformations For A Better World. How to we transform a society? Do we start off with our view about the best way to run a government, and dive right into sweeping changes, or have we…
Read MoreEpisode 125 :: Gregory Kramer :: Insight Dialogue
Gregory Kramer Gregory Kramer speaks with us about his book Insight Dialogue: The Interpersonal Path to Freedom, and his work at Metta.org. The wonderful thing about our practice is that it isn’t dependent on a particular ideological point of view. One can do the practice within or without the context of a religous setting. We’re…
Read MoreEpisode 124 :: Ginger Campbell :: Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty
Dr. Ginger Campbell Dr. Ginger Campbell speaks with us about science of the brain, and about the unconscious origins of certainty. How often have we been absolutely certain of something? We remember it clearly, we know it in our gut, it’s a sure thing. Only it’s not a sure thing. We’re fallible creatures, us humans,…
Read MoreEpisode 122 :: Lee Carlson :: Passage to Nirvana
Lee Carlson Zen teacher Lee Carlson speaks with us about being a traumatic brain injury survivor, the healing companionship of dogs, and his new book, Passage to Nirvana. We are surprisingly resilient, and yet oddly fragile beings. We break. We get injured, and we heal. Sometimes those injuries are not visible wounds, but the effects…
Read MoreEpisode 121 :: Charles Prebish :: An American Buddhist Life
Charles Prebish Charles Prebish, scholar of American Buddhism, speaks with us about his book An American Buddhist Life: Memoirs of a Modern Dharma Pioneer. As Buddhism has moved into new cultures and societies, it has done two things: it has created outposts of its historical traditions in those new locations and times, and it has…
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