Buddhism and the Psychedelic Society: An Interview with Terence McKenna
Allan Badiner conducted this following interview with Terence McKenna at Big Sur’s Esalen Institute in the Spring of 2001.
Deliberate Mindfulness and Effortless Mindfulness
In the gradual path many meditative approaches offer, effortless mindfulness is considered an advanced practice. However, I contend that it can be just as easy for beginners to learn as deliberate mindfulness.
This Very Moment: Teaching, Thinking, Dancing
Dance involves personal transmission from one practitioner to another, and it spans generations, like Indian classical music, like the living ancient arts of all cultures, like Buddhist teachings.
Feeling at Home on the Path: An Interview with Ethan Nichtern
As Buddhist practices and philosophy attract renewed interest in these quickening postmodern times, where’s the curious explorer of consciousness to start? Ethan Nichtern has written a guide that contextualizes ancient teachings while making them accessible to a contemporary audience.
Home Sweet Samsara
Creating one’s own personal Buddhism, personal yoga, personal interpretations without relying on original teachings seems to be putting people off course. There is a need to return to fundamentals as they were originally taught, not as people might want them to be taught.
Newest Music Video from A Cultivator (The Buddhist Rapper)
Lyrics: when you leave earth, after your time is done + everything that you thought you were starts asking what have i become + as consciousness searches for a sense of identity
until it says im finding some
Vince & Emily Horn from Buddhist Geeks [Joe Rogan Experience]
Vince and Emily Horn of Buddhist Geeks join Joe Rogan for the JRE Podcast. Two-hours-and-fifty-minutes of epic Bodhisattvic goodness ensue.
When Practice Isn’t Enough – [Buddhist Geeks]
Marianne Elliott is an attorney, human rights advocate, and the author of Zen Under Fire, a memoir about her work in Afghanistan.
Buddhism and Psychedelics
In 2012, an important discussion took place between Rev. Kokyo Henkel and James Fadiman, Ph.D. on the intersections between psychedelic experience and Buddhist practice and insight.
NAB Communities Podcast Interview: Ellen Pearlman
Ellen Pearlman is a founder of The Brooklyn Rail and is affiliated with nine Utne Independent Press Awards. We ask Pearlman about her recent book, Nothing and Everything: The Influence of Buddhism on the American Avant-Garde.