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Send us Fan Mail Today we have some guests on our podcast to discuss the role of women in Buddhism. Dana and Michelleanne talk with Mary Stancavage, Holly Herring and Ayya Yeshe. We share how we all came to practice, our history with this practice and belief in God, the types of Buddhism we all practice. Women play an integral role in Buddhism and we discuss this and the lack of teachings and acce...

Send us Fan Mail   What exactly is a mental fitness trainer? Author Mark Van Buren explains how he came to this point in his life to become a mindfulness instructor and what led him to writing A Fool’s Guide to Actual Happiness and Your Life is Meditation (Wisdom Publications). We talk about the difference between “fluff” and real mindfulness in […] The post Mark Van Buren: The Mental Fitness Trai...

Send us Fan Mail What exactly is a mental fitness trainer? Author Mark Van Buren explains how he came to this point in his life to become a mindfulness instructor and what led him to writing A Fool's Guide to Actual Happiness   and Y our Life is Meditation (Wisdom Publications). We talk about the difference between "fluff" and real mindfulness in everyday life and applying it, what...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Jon Kolkin is an internationally recognized artist with a lifetime of experience pursuing his passions while simultaneously maintaining a healthy balance between his personal and professional life. His unique strategies have allowed him to achieve a high level of success as a professional fine art photographer, physician, educator, global humanitarian, and international speake...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Jon Kolkin is an internationally recognized artist with a lifetime of experience pursuing his passions while simultaneously maintaining a healthy balance between his personal and professional life.  His unique strategies have allowed him to achieve a high level of success as a professional fine art photographer, physician, educator, global humanitarian, and international speak...

Send us Fan Mail Tyler Lewke is a realtor, a meditation instructor, and is president of The Blue Lotus Temple and Meditation Center. He recently opened up a retreat center with Grant Goehler: the Hackmatack Retreat. The mission of Hackmatack Retreat is to provide an accessible space that becomes the physical container for deep wisdom teachings and heart-centered, transformative work. Located in Ri...

Send us Fan Mail We finally got a chance to talk to Gary Sanders! Gary is a Buddhist teacher in the Insight Tradition and has a history working with people in Buddhism and recovery. He helped found Refuge Recovery, a Buddhist-based practice for people struggling with addictions. Gary lives in Portland, Oregon and is originally from the Los Angeles area.  We talk about grief, recovery, equanimity i...

Send us Fan Mail John Brehm is the author of three full-length books of poetry, Sea of Faith, Help Is on the Way , and No Day at the Beach , all from the University of Wisconsin Press, and a chapbook, The Way Water Moves , from Flume Press. His collection of essays, The Dharma of Poetry , was recently released by Wisdom Publications and is a companion to his acclaimed anthology, The Poetry of Impe...

Send us Fan Mail We had the opportunity to talk with Brad Wiscons. Brad has worked in physical and mental health for most of his professional career, with an emphasis on promoting safe, healthy, and engaged youth.  He has worked in a diverse set of settings including community organizing, domestic violence and child abuse prevention and treatment, hospital-based health education, and inpatient tre...

Send us Fan Mail Jack Huynh  is a first generation immigrant from Vietnam. Both of his parents are committed Buddhist practitioners and while he grew up around Buddhism, he did not find his own path until his early 20's. While pursuing the American dream, he first become a software engineer during the to dot com boom. After the crash in 2001, he pivoted into becoming a photographer and never...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast went longer than most of our podcasts because we just couldn't stop asking Guo Gu questions. He recently published Silent Illumination: A Chan Buddhist Path to Natural Awakening by Shambhala Publications. We talk about meditation methods,  his life and how he began meditating at such a young age. We discuss his teenage years (his mother took him to a Zen master a...

Send us Fan Mail Dave Smith is an internationally recognized Buddhist meditation teacher, addiction treatment specialist, and published author. His background is rooted in the Insight Meditation tradition and he was empowered to teach through the Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society. He has extensive experience bringing meditative interventions into jails, prisons, youth detention center...

Send us Fan Mail David Hinton is not only a poet and researcher of Buddhism and the Chinese language, he also translates Chinese poetry, earned a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as fellowships from N.E.A. and N.E.H, the Landon Translation Award, the PEN American Translation Award, and a lifetime achievement award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He recently wrote and published China Ro...

Send us Fan Mail We have chatted with Alex Kakuyo a few times on our podcasts and Alex also writes for TTB as well as many other publications...including his own blog, The Same Old Zen . Recently Alex published a book, Perfectly Ordinary: Buddhist Teachings for Everyday Life so we asked him if he would chat with us again.  Alex tells us his feelings on Buddhism, how he was drawn to it, how he once...

Send us Fan Mail Deborah Eden Tull is a Zen meditation and mindfulness teacher, author, activist, and sustainability educator. Brent and Dana sat down remotely from each other's homes with Eden in the midst of the pandemic to talk about her seven years training as a Buddhist monk at a silent Zen monastery at the age of 26, and some of her experience teaching mindfulness and the dharma for 19...

Send us Fan Mail Are you vegan...enough? For some veganism can seem like an extreme lifestyle, yet more and more people are turning to a plant-based lifestyle after seeing some of the information that has come out about the health benefits such as the documentaries, Game Changers and Forks Over Knives. On top of that, the understanding and reality of factory farming, the mistreatment of animals an...

Send us Fan Mail In 2018, a woman known as Andrea Winn blew the whistle on Mipham Rinpoche, also known as the Sakyong. The project began in 2017 as Project Sunshine, which was an effort to collect the stories and evidence of abuse in he Shambhala community. Her work became the catalyst toward an inquiry which was conducted by Carol Merchasin, a lawyer and sexual misconduct investigator, and also t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we talked about the relationship between Buddhism and psychotherapy. Do they compliment each other? Is meditation a replacement for therapy? We invite guests Sensei Alex Kakuyo, Barry Magid and Gesshin Claire Greenwood to chat with us on how Buddhism fits into psychotherapy, both in the mental health setting as well in self help formats. Feel free to join the dial...

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