Buddhist/Zen/Mindfulness

Gentle Buddhist Practice, Stream Entry, and Daily Life  Summary: This conversation explores a gentle, sustainable approach to Buddhist meditation and how awakening can unfold alongside ordinary responsibilities. It also covers stream entry, the...

Waking Up vs Growing Up Summary: This conversation explores why profound spiritual experiences do not automatically produce psychological maturity or ethical behavior. It also looks at Tibetan Buddhist practice, anomalous experiences, shadow...

Heart Practices, Emptiness, and Integration Summary: This conversation explores why awakening without heart development can lead to imbalance, harm, and poor integration. It also looks at fear, resistance, and the practical work needed to embody...

Buddhism, Christianity, and Spiritual Discernment Summary: This conversation explores meditation, solitary retreat, and the subtle dynamics of mind, prāṇa, and inner-body practice. It also examines karma, reincarnation, Buddha nature, Christian...

Belonging, Non-Separation, and Community Summary: This conversation explores belonging, non-separation, and the mystery of life through meditation, nature, and spiritual practice. It also looks at discernment, community, and the need to integrate...

Wisdom in Times of Crisis, Fear, and Inner Silence Summary: A conversation about meeting crisis with awareness, including fear, anxiety, impermanence, and the possibility of transformation. The discussion also explores silence, collective...

The Hole in Experience and the Nature of Awakening Summary: This conversation explores awakening as something beyond ordinary experience, including the role of suffering, bliss, and the body in realization. It also looks at discernment on the...

Earth Treasure Vases and Planetary Healing Summary: This conversation explores how prayer, ritual, and engaged Buddhism can be used in service of Earth healing and collective awakening. It also looks at peace work in conflict zones, the balance...

Zen Awakening, No-Self, and Levels of Practice Summary: This conversation explores Zen practice as a path of healing, surrender, and deepening realization. It touches on awakening, no-self, koans, teachers, humility, and the surprising role of...

Trauma-Informed Dharma and the Gradual Path Summary: This conversation explores gradual awakening, the role of meditation and Tibetan Buddhist practice, and how spiritual development can be integrated with ordinary life. It also examines...

Awakening, Jhanas, and the Urban Mystic Path Summary: This conversation explores intensive meditation practice, awakening, and the subtle stages of integrating realization into ordinary life. It also looks at discernment, ethical living, and the...

Caverly Morgan is a meditation teacher, nonprofit leader, and visionary. She is the Founder and Guiding Teacher of Presence Collective, dedicated to igniting personal transformation and collective awakening. She is also the Founder and Guiding...

Lama Tsültrim Allione is an author, internationally known Buddhist teacher, and the founder and resident lama of Tara Mandala Retreat Center. She is the author of Women of Wisdom, national bestseller Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for...

Lama Tsomo is an American lama, author, and co-founder of the Namchak Foundation. She followed a path of spiritual inquiry and study that ultimately led to her ordination as one of the few American lamas in Tibetan Buddhism. Lama Tsomo learned...

Kittisaro and Thanissara have been married since 1992. They spent 7 years as guiding teachers of the Buddhist Retreat Centre KwaZulu S. Africa and then went on to found Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat on the border of Lesotho and South Africa....

Robert A.F. Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University, President of the Tibet House U.S., a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion...

David Robert Loy is a professor, writer, and Zen teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism. He is a prolific author, whose essays and books have been translated into many languages. His articles appear regularly in the pages...

There is some controversy surrounding Culadasa. Here's a message from the organization he headed: Important Message from the Dharma Treasure Board of Directors His 33-page response and much discussion can be found on this Reddit board. Culadasa...

Spiritual midwife, evolutionary, healer, author, and artist, Peter Cutler had a profound awakening experience at the tender age of twenty-two. Ten days after it began, he promptly fell back into the dream state most us consider our lives. Not...

Shinzen Young is an American mindfulness teacher and neuroscience research consultant. His systematic approach to categorizing, adapting, and teaching meditation has resulted in collaborations with Harvard Medical School, Carnegie-Mellon...

Dorothy Hunt serves as Spiritual Director of Moon Mountain Sangha, teaching at the request of Adyashanti.  She is the founder of the San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy and has practiced psychotherapy since 1967. She is the...

Robert A.F. Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University, President of the Tibet House U.S., a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion...

Peter is a leader in the Western adaptation of Buddhist wisdom. He is a pioneer in the new field of nondual psychotherapy. He was a celibate monk in the Tibetan Buddhist traditions for nine years. He has a Ph.D. in the philosophical psychology of...