A LISTENING SELECTION
Explore different accounts of the self, the conditions of suffering, and what freedom might mean. Buddhist practice, Hindu philosophy, neuroscience, and contemplative psychology have distinct commitments here.
An episode can be a first meeting with a voice that feels like good company. If a show resonates, you may choose to keep listening beyond this selection. Each episode here has been chosen on its own merits; the wider show is yours to explore.
7 selected episodes
Podcast EpisodeThich Nhat Hanh with Krista Tippett
Thich Nhat Hanh speaks simply about mindfulness, compassion, war, anger, and bringing spiritual practice into the conflicts of ordinary life.
Podcast EpisodeJoseph Goldstein
Joseph Goldstein walks through dependent origination: the chain of conditions through which suffering takes shape and places where awareness and practice can interrupt it.
Podcast EpisodeProject Noon with Anantanand Rambachan
Hindu theologian Anantanand Rambachan explains Advaita Vedānta from within the tradition, moving through Brahman and Ātman, scripture, liberating knowledge, the world, suffering, injustice, and modern Advaita.
Podcast EpisodeGinger Campbell
Metzinger connects self-model theory, virtual reality and out-of-body experience without treating a vivid experience as evidence for a soul. This exact object earns inclusion because hearing the exchange performs work the 574-book shelf cannot supply as directly.
Podcast EpisodeMichael W. Taft
A clinical psychologist and meditation teacher distinguishes insight, desired feeling and long-term practice effects. This exact object earns inclusion because hearing the exchange performs work the 574-book shelf cannot supply as directly.
Podcast EpisodeMichael W. Taft
Rasmussen’s trauma history and long retreat practice let psychology, metta and spiritual bypassing meet in one lived account. This exact object earns inclusion because hearing the exchange performs work the 574-book shelf cannot supply as directly.
Podcast EpisodeMichael W. Taft
A neuroscientist names how compelling insight can be wrong, giving unusually timely epistemic friction inside meditation culture. This exact object earns inclusion because hearing the exchange performs work the 574-book shelf cannot supply as directly.