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The Elephant in the Meditation Room | Christopher Ford
Episode 420
Today's episode is the culmination of a long search to find a countervailing force: a Buddhist Trump supporter. This search was born out of the Buddh…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Good News About Your Inevitable Decline | Arthur Brooks
Episode 419
The unavoidable truth is that our skills change as we get older. We invest so much in our professional success, and then at some point, things change…
4 years, 1 month ago
How Not to Ruin Your Relationships | Drs. John & Julie Gottman
Episode 418
If you care about your long term health and happiness, the quality of your relationships is an area you should focus on. And the good news here is th…
4 years, 1 month ago
Why I'm Not a Buddhist | Evan Thompson
Episode 417
This episode features Evan Thompson, author of the book Why I Am Not a Buddhist. Evan Thompson is a writer and professor of philosophy at the Univers…
4 years, 1 month ago
Hinduism 101 | Swami Tyagananda
Episode 416
One of the most consistent requests we get from listeners is to explore non-Buddhist forms of meditation. That's what we're going to do with this epi…
4 years, 1 month ago
Why Self-Hatred Makes No Sense | Matthew Brensilver
Episode 415
This episode, with Matthew Brensilver, explores a compelling Buddhist question: does self-hatred, or self-love, make sense if the self is an illusion…
4 years, 1 month ago
What We Can Learn About Happiness from Babies | Alison Gopnik
Episode 414
Dr. Alison Gopnik is a psychologist at UC Berkeley and one of the world's leading experts in cognitive development. She is also the author of several…
4 years, 1 month ago
Buddhist Lessons on Anxiety | Leslie Booker (2021)
All week, we've been running "best of" episodes as part of our Taming Anxiety series – and this is the final episode in that series.
Leslie Booker…
4 years, 1 month ago
How to Break Your Anxiety Habit | Judson Brewer (2021)
This week, we're sharing some of the best episodes in our archives about anxiety. Dr. Judson Brewer is a psychiatrist and deep dharma practitioner wh…
4 years, 1 month ago
Sara Bareilles: Anxiety, Anger, and Art (2021)
This week, we're posting some of our best podcasts from the archives on a dragon many of us face internally – anxiety. The first episode of the serie…
4 years, 1 month ago