Lama Taboot

We go in-depth on Mitchell’s first Phish show, 3/8/2009 at the Hampton Coliseum, in this Phish-centric bonus episode. Support the show Our website is lamataboot.com , Instagram: @lamataboot , and YouTube: @lamataboot Find Lama Adam at lamaadam.com .  His nonprofit is Mindfulness For Life at mindfulness-for-life.org and on Instagram @mindfulnessforlifeorg .  One-on-one coaching and consulting with...

With "Sand>Quadraphonic Toppling" from Big Cypress, 12/31/99 we dig into karma, and how we can utilize this basic mechanism of our experience to build the strong, positive habits we (and our world) are in need of.   Support the show Our website is lamataboot.com , Instagram: @lamataboot , and YouTube: @lamataboot Find Lama Adam at lamaadam.com .  His nonprofit is Mindfulness For Life...

The Buddha’s fundamental teaching that we can reduce and ultimately transcend suffering is good news.  (Maybe the BEST news!)  The first step is cultivating understanding what suffering really is, and how it arises in our own experience.  With the lyrics to “Character Zero” (as performed on 4/4/98), we examine The Three Kinds of Suffering. Support the show Our website is lamataboot.com , Instagram...

We use Slave to the Traffic Light from 12/7/97 as a means of exploring the question:  If we all have this unlimited potential for wisdom and compassion, why can’t we see it?    The Four Veils teach us a lot about what’s hidden, what seems to be hiding it, and the choice that actually rests at the heart of the matter.   Support the show Our website is lamataboot.com , Instagram: @lamataboot , and Y...

No new episode this week, but instead some unreleased stuff from our first recording session with Ali, where she asks about entryways to Phish and entryways to Dharma, and we end up discussing the Middle Way.  12/31/95 “You Enjoy Myself “ Pt 1 12/31/95 “You Enjoy Myself” Pt. 2 Support the show Our website is lamataboot.com , Instagram: @lamataboot , and YouTube: @lamataboot Find Lama Adam at lamaa...

Will there ever be a more natural convergence of Dharma and Phish?  Possibly not, but we'll keep looking.   Topics include a comparison of the controlled environment of the recording studio with our formal meditation practice; how postmeditation practice supports our time on the cushion; the skill of finding a balance between technique and openness; and how Phish fans find themselves uniquely...

With the pairing of the 11/7/98 AC/DC Bag>Ghost, we discuss antidotes to the primary obstacles to meditation: dullness and agitation; the importance of raising our self-awareness of those states; how technique can sometimes get in the way of just being; and how we can identify and maximize our time in the “learning zone”. AC/DC Bag> Ghost Audience video of the 11/7/98 show. Support the show...

We talk impermanence with a pairing of the Went Gin from 8/17/97 , and the burning of the massive tower of communal band/audience art that concluded the 97 summer tour.   Support the show Our website is lamataboot.com , Instagram: @lamataboot , and YouTube: @lamataboot Find Lama Adam at lamaadam.com .  His nonprofit is Mindfulness For Life at mindfulness-for-life.org and on Instagram @mindfulnessf...

We talk about Mitchell’s trip to see Phish’s Halloween shows, then use the Denver Ghost and Riverport Gin to talk about karma as habit energy and working with our patterns.   Musical pairings: “Ghost” - 11/17/97 Denver “Bathtub Gin” - 7/29/98 Support the show Our website is lamataboot.com , Instagram: @lamataboot , and YouTube: @lamataboot Find Lama Adam at lamaadam.com .  His nonprofit is Mindful...

With the musical pairing of 12/6/97’s legendary Tweezer>Izabella, we’ll discuss how to utilize the Three Stages of Practice—listening, contemplation, and meditation—to fully integrate the teachings.  Support the show Our website is lamataboot.com , Instagram: @lamataboot , and YouTube: @lamataboot Find Lama Adam at lamaadam.com .  His nonprofit is Mindfulness For Life at mindfulness-for-life.or...

In the spirit of the holidays, we’re sharing an intimate discussion Lama Mitchell and I recently had about the Three-Year Retreat we completed in March of 2020.   You’ll hear an overview of the traditional three-year retreat and specifics about ours; how Phish always had a sacred thread of practice to us, even before we knew a Buddhist framework for it; why a sense of spaciousness makes everything...

With Phish's spectacular Starlake '97 Gumbo in mind, we delve into the relationship between mindfulness and awareness; how cultivating our ability to place our attention brings about volition; what "monkey mind" is, and how our mindfulness can counteract it; and how we each possess the potential for transcendence in every moment.  Musical pairing: 8/13/97 Starlake "Gumbo&q...

It all starts here!  We discuss our first Phish shows since three-year retreat and COVID; address the discomfort  of starting a meditation practice, and how that’s the same discomfort we are usually trying to distract ourselves from (hint: the distraction doesn’t actually help); and introduce the Buddha’s first teaching, The Four Noble Truths, and some ways we can apply it in life and at a concert...

We continue our discussion of non-attachment by talking about Phish's 13-night stand at MSG and how humor can benefit our practice; how the example of the Buddha's life demonstrates the Middle Way; how we are all equal in our wish to be happy; what it means to be truly happy and surrender to the flow; why we would still do things in an unchanging state of happiness; and how all experienc...

Here's a short teaser of where we will begin Season One of Lama Taboot, the podcast about Buddhism and Phish.   Upcoming episodes include topics such as non-attachment and setlist construction, happiness and surrendering to the flow, mindfulness and active listening, and karma and the methodical late-90s jams.   Support the show Our website is lamataboot.com , Instagram: @lamataboot , and You...