The Secular Buddhist Podcast
Episode 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 126 :: Gary Watts :: Buddhist Police Support Network
Gary Watts Gary Watts speaks with us about the Buddhist Police Support Network. Preconceived notions. We all have them. Sometimes this mental shorthand provides a bit of efficiency in navigating the hectic waters of our day. But if we allow these notions to always determine our actions, and don’t question whether they are accurate, our…
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 123 :: Ramsey Margolis :: Secular Buddhism Community Building in New Zealand
Ramsey Margolis Ramsey Margolis speaks with us today about building Secular Buddhism community in New Zealand. We’ve seen a surge recently in the creation and development of secular Buddhism sites across the world, serving our diverse public of contemporary practitioners with a wonderful variety of online resources. There are many approaches to a secular practice,…
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…
Read MoreEpisode 120 :: Lenorë Lambert :: Secular Buddhism Australia
Lenorë Lambert Lenorë Lambert joins us to speak about the new Secular Buddhism Australia website. There’s a great deal of discussion online lately about what secular Buddhism is, and what are the views of people who designate as secular Buddhists. Of course there is no one and only secular Buddhism, and there is a great…
Read MoreEpisode 119 :: Shinzen Young :: Meditation, Pain, and Science
Shinzen Young Shinzen Young joins us to speak about meditation, pain relief, and science. We encounter this practice in so many ways. Often through suffering. Sometimes through disciplines like the martial arts, or from an interest in fixing some issues we’re having with concentration. And sometimes, we come to it through a fascination with a…
Read MoreEpisode 118 :: Tim Ward :: Zombies on Kilimanjaro
Tim Ward Tim Ward, author of What the Buddha Never Taught, joins us again to talk about Buddhist practice, meme theory, and his new book Zombies on Kilimanjaro: A Father/Son Journey Above the Clouds. As we talk about the evolution of a secular Buddhism, it’s pretty easy to see it happening. There are an increasing…
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