Living Dharma Podcast

In this episode of Living Dharma , co-hosts Tsunma Kunsang Palmo and Justin Kelly sit down with Bill and Susan Morgan, two highly respected voices at the intersection of mindfulness and psychotherapy. With over three decades of teaching together—including a consecutive four-year retreat at the Insight Meditation Society's Forest Refuge—Bill and Susan share their personal evolution away from r...

In this episode of Living Dharma , we sit down with Susan Kaiser Greenland —best-selling author, mindfulness teacher, Mind & Life fellow, and a pioneering voice in bringing contemplative practice into schools and family life. Susan shares her path into meditation through a family health crisis, the challenges of a strong “thinking mind,” and how her legal training helped her navigate secular e...

In this grounded and intimate conversation, Devon Hase reflects on Dharma not as abstraction, but as lived responsibility—something enacted through relationship, ritual, and daily attention. Rather than positioning practice as something separate from ordinary life, Devon speaks to the ways discipline, devotion, and meaning emerge through showing up consistently: for community, for grief, for inner...

In this deeply embodied conversation, Roshi Joan Halifax—Zen teacher, anthropologist, and founder of Upaya Zen Center—explores what it truly means to live Dharma in everyday life. Speaking with rare clarity and tenderness, Roshi Joan reflects on authentic practice as continuous practice : meeting each moment with wholeheartedness, mutuality, and non-separation. Drawing from decades of work in soci...

What does it truly mean to live the Dharma in today’s complex and interconnected world? In this episode of Living Dharma , hosts Kunsang Palmo and Justin Kelley sit down with Jonathan F. P. Rose—mission-driven developer, contemplative practitioner, and co-founder of the Garrison Institute—for a wide-ranging and deeply grounded conversation on purpose, compassion, and action. Jonathan shares how a...

In this special live recording of Living Dharma , we sit down with pioneering meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein for a rich and heartfelt conversation on equanimity, compassion, and the creative spirit that arises from silence. With over five decades of practice and teaching, Joseph shares how perspective—whether gazing at the night sky or reflecting on history—can restore balance amidst turbulen...

In this inaugural episode of Living Dharma , Tibetan meditation master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche joins us for a warm and insightful conversation on how awareness transforms our experience of life. With his signature humor and grounded wisdom, Rinpoche shares personal stories from his childhood in a monastery, the role of curiosity and joy in spiritual practice, and how embracing the full range of hu...