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Meditation Sickness and the Dangers of Buddhist Practice with Pierce Salguero

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Cultivating Consciousness: A Conversation with Ronald E. Purser on Mind Space (2026)

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Just Stare at the Damn Wall!

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Dr. Michael Uebel on Reimaging Equanimity

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Alexander Douglas, "Against Identity: The Wisdom of Escaping the Self" (Random House, 2025)

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Speaking Philosophically: Communication at the Limits of Discursive Reason

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Anne C. Klein on Becoming a Buddha & Being Human too

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121 Peter Sloterdijk Knows it All

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120 Non Buddhist Mysticism: Performing Irreducible and Primitive Presence

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119 Alone in a World of Wounds with Zen Abbot Shodhin Geiman

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118 Nietzsche Now! With Glenn Wallis

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117 Building the Future Buddha: A Discussion with Jundho Cohen

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116 Making Sense of Yogacara with William Waldron

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115 Christian Coseru on Perceiving Reality

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114 David McMahan on Rethinking Meditation

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113 A.I. and Practice with Stuart Baldwin

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112 Wake up! (Part 3) An Antidote to Stupidity in Three Parts

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111 Wake up! (Part 2) An Antidote to Stupidity in Three Parts

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110 Wake up! (Part 1) An Antidote to Stupidity in Three Parts

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109 Meditating Three Minutes a Day: A Conversation with Richard Dixey

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108 Curtis White on Buddhism and Transcendence

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107 Simon Cox on the Subtle Body

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106 Think Piece: "I Refuse to Change"

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105 Ken McLeod on the Magic of Vajrayana

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104 Doug Bates on the Ancient Greek Version of Buddhism

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103 Incognito: The Astounding Life of Alexandra David-Neel

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102 A Review of "A Critique of Western Buddhism"

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101 Contemplative, Existential Psychotherapy and Dzogchen

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100 Nietzsche, Wokeism, Non-Buddhist Mysticism

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99 Non-Duality: A Discussion with Peter Fenner

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98 Being Buddhist and Some Thoughts on "Identity"

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97 Buddhist Medicine and Buddhish

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96 Doubt: Part 5

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95 Intercultural Buddhism and Philosophy: A Discussion with Jin Y. Park

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94 Derrida Meets Nagarjuna, with Peter Salmon

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93 Doubt: Part 4

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92 Jason M. Wirth on Zen, the Kyoto School, and Whether Nietzsche is a Buddha

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91 Peter Salmon on Jacques Derrida and the Buddha

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90 Doubt: Part 3

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89 Daniel Ingram on Practice

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88 Doubt: Part 2

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87 Stef Aupers on Conspirituality

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86 Doubt: Part 1

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85 Winton Higgins on Secularizing Buddhism

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84 Practice Item no. 1

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83 Stephen Batchelor on Secularizing Buddhism

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82 Richard K. Payne on Securalizing Buddhism

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81 You Need Non-Practice!

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80 Tina Rasmussen: Concentrating on Practice

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79 Jane Affleck on the Environment and Art as Practice

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78 Glenn Wallis on Personal Practice & Anarchism

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77 Gregory Kramer on Practice

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76 Chenxing Han: Be the Refuge, Asian Buddhism in America

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75 George Haas on the Practicing Life

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74 Being at Large with Santiago Zabala

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73 Buddhism and Magic with Sam van Schaik

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72 Non-Philosophy with John Ó Maoilearca

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71 Podcast Resurrected

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70 Rethinking Practice at the Great Feast (Incite Seminar)

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69 The Wonkiness One (Preamble ahoy)

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68 Conspiracy Afoot

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67 Ashley Frawley on Happiness and the Present

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66 Facing the Coronavirus: The Practicing Life in a Time of Crisis

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65 The Ideological Turn (of the Pedagogical Platter)

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64 Side View's Adam Robbert on Philosophy as a Way of Life

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63 Daniel Ingram on Integral Theory

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62 Introducing 2020

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61 Michelle Haslam and her Psychological Report on the Controversial New Kadampa Tradition

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60 Brooke Lavelle and Zach Walsh on the Great Transition

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59 Clair Brown on Buddhist Economics

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58 Sam Mickey on Co-Existentialism and the Practicing Life

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57 The Political Turn (The Great Feast)

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56 Cleo Kearns on Ritual and Resistance

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55 Daniel Ingram Down the Rabbit Hole

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54 Daniel Ingram Meets Trash Theory

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53 Daniel Ingram on the Practicing Life

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52 The Critical Turn (Buddhism and Beyond)

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51 Ken McLeod and Hokai Sobol on Practice and Mysticism (Part 2)

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50 Ken McLeod and Hokai Sobol on Practice (Part 1)

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49 Donald S. Lopez on the Buddha, Tibet, Myth, and Context

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48 Richard K. Payne: Critical Reflections on Western Buddhism

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47 Ann Gleig on American Dharma and Buddhism Beyond Modernity

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46 David L. McMahan on Buddhism, Science, the Humanities, and Modernity

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45 AK Thompson on the Culture of Revolt (Incite Seminars)

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44 Scott Mitchell on American Buddhism, Global Buddhism

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43 Mikel Burley on Reincarnation, Rebirth, and Wittgenstein

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42 2019 Seasonal Special with Guest Host Gavin McCloskey

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41 Joshua Ramey on Money and Metaphysics (Incite Seminars)

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40 Jason Josephson Storm on the Myth of Disenchantment

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39 Dale S. Wright on Buddhist Enlightenment

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38 William Edelglass on Shantideva, Levinas, and Philosophy for Buddhists

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37 Yves Citton on the Ecology of Attention

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36 Zack Walsh on the Contemplative Commons, Ecological, and Revolutionary Practice

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35 Robert Forman on Enlightenment, Mysticism, Pure Consciousness, and Yogic Flying

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34 Unlearning with Glenn Wallis

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33 Charles S. Prebish on American Buddhism and Buddhist Studies

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32 John Paetsch on Deleuze and the Larval Subject

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31 Ron Purser on Neo-Liberal Mindfulness, Neo-Liberal Buddhism

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30 Glenn Wallis on Darkness, Sloterdjik, and More (Incite Seminars)

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29 Ulrich Baer on Rilke and Heidegger (Incite Seminars)