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Dharma Knights
by Matt Murphy
What does it mean to be a spiritual warrior? It's a phrase that gets a lot of mileage, but what does anyone actually mean when they use it? What does it mean to have "quests" in the modern era? What is my dharma, yours, and the dharma of others? How do we embody spiritual practices in every day life? What does it mean for martial artists or those who play literal warrior roles in society? How do all these fit together? What stories do we have to learn from, along these lines?
Episodes
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DK43 - 20 Examples Of "Therapy-Speak" Gaslights - Part 2
PART 2 - In this eye-opening episode, we continue to dive deep into the subtle and often misunderstood world of gaslighting—a form of psychological manipulation that leaves victims questioning their reality. With the rise of "therapy-speak" and life-coaching buzzwords on social media and YouTube,...
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DK42 - 20 Examples Of "Therapy-Speak" Gaslights - Part 1
In this eye-opening episode, we continue to dive deep into the subtle and often misunderstood world of gaslighting—a form of psychological manipulation that leaves victims questioning their reality. With the rise of "therapy-speak" and life-coaching buzzwords on social media and YouTube,...
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DK41 - Misusing Therapy And Coaching Tools - Part 3
Part 3: Therapy and coaching can be wonderfully transformative frameworks to help people enrich and change their lives, but the tools learned in these frameworks are intended for someone to improve their own health and well-being -- not to control or mistreat / neglect others. How might some of…
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DK40 - Misusing Therapy and Coaching Tools - Part 2
Part 1: Therapy and coaching can be wonderfully transformative frameworks to help people enrich and change their lives, but the tools learned in these frameworks are intended for someone to improve their own health and well-being -- not to control or mistreat / neglect others. How might some of…
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DK39 - Misusing Therapy and Coaching Tools - Part 1
Part 1: Therapy and coaching can be wonderfully transformative frameworks to help people enrich and change their lives, but the tools learned in these frameworks are intended for someone to improve their own health and well-being -- not to control or mistreat / neglect others. How might some of…
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DK38 - No, You Don't Choose All Your Own Feelings
When we say that people are responsible for their own feelings, are we also saying that people choose all the feelings they feel? Absolutely not! We can cultivate feelings and shape our thoughts in ways that influence our feelings, but so many feelings are involuntary, even if how we process them...
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DK37 - Getting Back in The Saddle
Matt Murphy here. I've been on a long break from making podcast content, largely due to taking on a management role at a job for a big company. But, that's been on a steady maintenance roll for a while now, so I thought I'd come back to making this content for any listeners I still have. Good to…
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DK36 Baghavad Gita - Chapter7 Summary
Here's an overview and summary of the Bhagavad Gita, seventh chapter. This is audio taken from course materials Matt (the host) has published elsewhere.
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DK35 - Bhagavad Gita Overview - Ch 6
Here's an overview and summary of the Bhagavad Gita, sixth chapter. This is audio taken from course materials Matt (the host) has published elsewhere.
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DK34 - Bhagavad Gita Overview - Ch 5
Here's an overview and summary of the Bhagavad Gita, fifth chapter. This is audio taken from course materials Matt (the host) has published elsewhere.
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DK33 - Bhagavad Gita Overview - Ch 4
Here's an overview and summary of the Bhagavad Gita, fourth chapter. This is audio taken from course materials Matt (the host) has published elsewhere.
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DK32 - Bhagavad Gita Overview - Ch 3
Here's an overview and summary of the Bhagavad Gita, third chapter. This is audio taken from course materials Matt (the host) has published elsewhere.
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DK31 - Bhagavad Gita Overview - Ch 2
Here's an overview and summary of the Bhagavad Gita, second chapter. This is audio taken from course materials Matt (the host) has published elsewhere.
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DK30 - Not a Perfect Guru
Should yoga philosophy teachers be perfect yogic saints? Should they be flawless (or act like it, anyway)? Or should they own their flaws? And is the Yogic philosophy the only lens and spiritual toolbox they are allowed?
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DK29 - Creativity Reconnection
What biographical details can help one reconnect with powerful creativity? What parts of daily life, what investment in disciplined activities, and what essential relationships or prospects allow us to reconnect with a previously powerful supply of creativity and production?
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DK28 - Who Stole Your Shame?
Shame is a bad and toxic emotion to be avoided... right? Or is there something else to shame, which we evolved for a reason? Can we realign a sense of shame as a useful tool that helps our aim, or is it all just so much psychological waste to be discarded?
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DK27 - The Good One and The Toxic One
Social Media has contributed (among other things) a new widespread use of terms to describe others as "toxic", but what does this ultimately mean for personal responsibility and expansion of one's own capabilities and consciousness?
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DK26 - Is It All Really Just Stuff
In spiritual circles, we often encounter expressions that put material things and spiritual essences at odds... but is it really that simple? Above and beyond the fact that material currency and objects help us survive so that we can have a spiritual experience in the first place?
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DK25 - Reincorporating the Puzzle Pieces
Have you ever experienced major life-changes, which made you re-arrange (or temporarily pause) some of the largest experiential puzzle pieces of yourself? How does one manage the transition, or consciously redesign the formula when starting it all again?
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DK24 - The Dharma of IT
Yoga is supposed to be something one takes off the mat, and I try my best do Karma Yoga at my IT job. It requires more empathy than is generally credited to those in my field, but that differentiation is a powerful and redeeming way of consciously working and serving for most of my waking hours...
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DK23 - Bhagavad Gita Chapter One Overview
Here's a continuation of my Bhagavad Gita studies, for students and friends, now entering into a chapter-by-chapter overview. Here is Chapter 1's summary.
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DK22 – Yoga Teacher Training Exam Prep 3 of 3
Part 3 of 3: I'm making use of my podcast for my current class of Yoga Teacher Trainees (I teach yogic philosophy, history, etc) to help prepare them for the written exam at the end of the course. However, I think this stuff is interesting to others as well, if they are at all into yoga or…
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DK21 – Yoga Teacher Training Exam Prep 2 of 3
Part 2 of 3: I'm making use of my podcast for my current class of Yoga Teacher Trainees (I teach yogic philosophy, history, etc) to help prepare them for the written exam at the end of the course. However, I think this stuff is interesting to others as well, if they are at all into yoga or…
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DK20 - Yoga Teacher Training Exam Prep 1 of 3
Part 1 of 3: I'm making use of my podcast for my current class of Yoga Teacher Trainees (I teach yogic philosophy, history, etc) to help prepare them for the written exam at the end of the course. However, I think this stuff is interesting to others as well, if they are at all into yoga or…
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DK19-Bhagavad Gita and Its Many Contexts
This is another re-wrapping of some of my course material about the Bhagavad Gita, which I usually teach to Yoga Teacher Training students. This episode combines two context-related topics: authorship of the Gita, as well as its historical contexts and the greater Mahabharata story context from...
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DK18 - Bhagavad Gita Study - Key Divinity Terms
I'm continuing my series on Bhagavad Gita reading guide materials, both for my current students and the generally interested audience out there. This one focuses on clarifying some of the terms used to describe divinity and divine beings mentioned in the Gita, which are notoriously difficult for...
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DK17 - Bhagavad Gita Key Concepts
Here's another sampling of Bhagavad Gita lecture materials Matt (host of Dharma Knights podcast) has made elsewhere. The audio is compiled here in podcast format for convenient access and reference for Matt's students, but also all the other listeners who have expressed interest in these assets....
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DK16 - Matt Coaches Erin, Part 2
This is the second part of a coaching session Matt did with his partner Erin, the host of "Thrive Yoga Fit Transformational Podcast". The first part is on her podcast. Matt is using the tools Erin teaches in her Thrive Coach School program, with his own particular flavor.
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DK15 - Key Bhagavad Gita Terms
I've had some students and listeners (respectively) ask for more Bhagavad Gita content, and I'm happy to oblige! Here's some content from a course I'm putting together about the Gita. This material is about some key terms that benefit from clarification, due to translation quirks and more.
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DK14 - Reincarnations Within Single Lives
The notions of Karma (and consequently Dharma) are mostly sensible within a worldview that assumes the doctrine of reincarnation... or not necessarily? In this episode, I very broadly sketch out three different ideas that can make the case for modern humans' capabilities of living "many lives"…
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Dk13 - Ekalavya And The Idol of the Guru
As a lifelong self-directed learner, this is one of my favorite episodes of Indian storytelling. What does this story illustrate about self-learning and the "guru" system? What does it tell us about the potentially cruel tuition owed by predatory and opportunistic education models? What does it...
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DK12 - Consistent Mediocrity As Seeds For Mastery
In my own practices, I've seen this process play out repeatedly: people who show up consistently over long enough periods of time seem to outlast (and even: outperform) those who show up with unsustainable intensity, overly aggressive goals, and unforgiving standards. I've also seen the…
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DK11 - Knight of The Crab
Why I "knight" people, and in this case: why I extracted a knightly vow from one of my best friends in the world, and asked him to extract the same from me.
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DK10 - Teach Individuals Not Projections
If you're a student, do you have a teacher that engages with you as an individual, distinct from them? Or are they teaching you as if they are teaching their own past selves? Why might the difference matter? It matters a lot: as much as we have in common, every difference makes a difference. Good...
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DK9 - No "Positive Vibes Only" Please
Have you encountered the "positive vibes only" flavor of popular spiritualism? Have you heard the term "spiritual bypassing"? Does the term "holding space" compute to you? Have you noticed in yourself (or others) the tendency to talk over others (offer advice or solutions) when they give…
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DK8 - Compassionate Resiliency
Compassion and resiliency are two concepts that rarely share the same stage, at least in American society. Maybe our collective conditioning to think of ourselves as rugged individualists gives us some blind-spots to the necessity of cooperation and compassion in a functioning society, and maybe...
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DK7 - About the Author
A brief introduction, in very rough outlines, about the sort of person who is making this podcast. Where am I coming from, what am I trying to say, and why am I saying it? How does it apply to others, and their journeys?
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DK6 - Play (Lila)
In a world of seemingly endless conflict and adversarial processes, what does it mean to approach life with a spirit of play? Maybe more specifically: what does a spirit of "play" (or even: re-enacting the divine "lila") mean when we apply it to embodied practices like yoga and martial arts? Does...
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DK5 - Forests and Wastelands
In this podcast, I discuss the dual motifs of mythic forests and wastelands as settings for a questor, wherein they go further and further from civilization and the orthodoxies of their society, and deeper into themselves (and even, to a significant extent: beyond themselves) for spiritual boons...
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DK4 - Quests
What makes a "quest" different from a "goal", or an "intention"? How can these concepts harmonize? How does having a lifelong (or at least: enduringly long-labored) quest fundamentally shape one's life and actions in a way that is essentially impossible without declaring that quest, and…
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DK3 - Embodied Practices?
What do we mean by "embodied practices?" How might that differ between practices with implicit spiritual dimensions, but varying practical uses? For example: in my own life, I very much get implicitly spiritual and philosophical rewards out of both yoga and martial arts, and their secondary uses…
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DK2 - Focus
Focus is a basic requirement for anyone trying to expand their personal capabilities; certainly anyone on a "spiritual quest" has to carve out the ability to focus. But we have more distractions than ever, as well as demands that we "multitask" just to keep our heads above water. But the need to...
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DK1 - What do I mean by "Dharma Knight?"
Welcome to the first episode of "Dharma Knights"! I give a rough description of why I'm bothering to talk about this stuff, and what it is I'm actually trying to say. I begin with a question: "what the hell does anyone even mean by 'spiritual warrior?' and go from there. I'll be unpacking this…
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What does it mean to be a spiritual warrior? It's a phrase that gets a lot of mileage, but what does anyone actually mean when they use it? What does it mean to have "quests" in the modern era? What is my dharma, yours, and the dharma of others? How do we embody spiritual practices in every day life? What does it mean for martial artists or those who play literal warrior roles in society? How do all these fit together? What stories do we have to learn from, along these lines?
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Matt Murphy
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