Al Ohm

The Almighty Ohm

Religion EN ↓ 526 episodes

Welcome — where resistance meets resonance. This is a space for those of us who don’t fully believe, but can’t fully turn away either. Who question everything—God, healing, knowledge, self—but keep searching anyway. Almighty Ohm is for the in-betweeners. The resistors. The thinkers who feel, and the feelers who think. This isn’t about arriving. It’s about tuning in—through the noise, through the doubt, to that quiet hum underneath it all.

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Al Ohm

Episodes

Chapter 50. Lankavatara. Knowing. Tetralemma. 05.05.2021 3:19

I read and discuss the importance of the great doubt. We are ignorant creatures. Our path out of delusion is to embrace a doubt that liberates. The catuskoti. Tetralemma. The confidence, devotion, and faith. Without proof or experience. Sraddha.

Unifying method and wisdom. Chapter 10. Stages of meditation. 03.05.2021 27:08

Chapter 10 of Kamalashila's stages of meditation. Entitled unifying method and wisdom.

Actualizing special insight. Kamalashila stages of meditation. 01.05.2021 13:35

I read chapter 9 on actualization of special insight.

The practice of calm abiding. I read from kamalashila's stages of meditation. 28.04.2021 7:28

Chapter 8 on establishing calm abiding.

I read chapter 7. Stages of meditation by Kamalashila. 24.04.2021 7:34

I read chapter 7. Prerequisites for meditating on calm abiding and special insight.

An attempt to define karma for all traditions. 03.04.2021 24:30

I share karma from a Theravedin, Mahayana/Yogacara/Madhyamaka, and Vedanta perspective. Alayavijnana. Bhavangasota. Amalavijnana. Bijja. Dependant origination.

What is the Amalavijnana. Why is it transformative? 22.03.2021 17:15

I discuss a class from the weekend. Perfected consciousness. How this can transform your practice as a Buddhist, maybe even as a Hindu.

Chapter 6. Wisdom. 16.03.2021 8:01

The stages of the path. By Kamalashila. Wisdom. Chapter 6.

Ch5 of the stages of meditation. Suffering. By kamalashila. 15.03.2021 17:56

I read and discuss the Fifth chapter on suffering.

Stages of the path part 2. Kamalashila. 15.03.2021 15:16

Chapter 3 compassion and chapter 4 equanimity. Development and benefits. The stages of meditation by kamalashila. Reading and discussion.

Cryptocoins are a pyramid scheme today. Cryptocurrency is an idea that could change the world, for the better. 15.03.2021 16:06

I discuss banking, means of exchange, third world poverty, greed and avarice. Change and technology. Old ideas and new.   This episode was inspired by a question: "Is bitcoin a ponzi or pyramid scheme?" My answer: "Yes it is. As it stands. Cryto is a means of exchange - not a  speculation vehicle or an investment. As an ex-banker I saw great potential. The number of clients I had sending...

The stages of meditation. Kamalashila. 14.03.2021 16:22

Introduction. Chapter 1 to 3. I discuss the basis of the mind illuminated. I attempt to show the entirety of the path in every teaching.

The sudden vs gradual enlightenment argument. 14.03.2021 12:34

I discuss the sudden vs gradual enlightenment argument and give an introduction to the stages of meditation by kamalashila.

Principle stages of the path. Je Tsongkhapa. 13.03.2021 42:09

I discuss the nature of liberation. I read the Lam Rim/stages of the path by Tsongkhapa(second segment). Buddhism. Vedanta. Reduce: the self, grasping, aversion, ignorance... **You can skip the intro and go right to the reading in the second segment.*

10,000 styles of meditation. One teaching. 07.03.2021 19:21

I discuss my attempt to find the best guide to meditation and mindfulness.

I discuss more historic perspectives. 04.03.2021 10:21

Do we have philosophy, and schools wrong? Are the scholarship schools in China born of the same opinion? Mohism. Mozi as the true philosophy of the book of changes?

Rambling about whitewashed history and entertainment. 02.03.2021 16:51

I discuss a couple of examples of the whitewash of history. Honor as an Asian aspect, without the complexity of the philosophy of the Golden mean. Or Greece as the creator of philosophy.

The psychedelic and the meditative experience. 28.02.2021 18:21

Do they inform each other, or are they delusional? I discuss, with vast experience, my own perception and experience.

The will to be selfless 25.02.2021 3:13

The philosophy of self actualization. Frankl. Freud. Hemingway. The search for meaning.

What is the nature of the practice? 24.02.2021 17:25

I discuss a Beudelaire quote. How a simple practice has been hidden in plain sight.

Sartre, Camus, and existence. 23.02.2021 16:48

I discuss self imposed living hell. Is it the other or the self. Vasubandhu and the self as a nascent object. Upacara. Yogacara. Vijnanayana.

The Dalai Lama and the MP5. 17.02.2021 10:31

Submachine guns, policing, and personal responsibility.

What is Lam rim. And insights, or warnings. 15.02.2021 9:18

I share the practice of Lam rim. Theravedin aspects on vajrayana. And some of my own insights.

What is kasina practice? 15.02.2021 8:44

Fire 🔥 kasina. The visuddhimagga and the vimuddhimagga. What is this practice. Not so complex. I invite you to read these sutta yourself with an open mind.

I think therefore I am. Thought is action, action is thought. 09.02.2021 1:43

I discuss a quote from Blavatsky. Buddhism in four words.