Episodes

  • Season 2, Episode Seven: “I Walk the Spiral; You Walk the Line: Owning Your Path So As Not to Get Owned By It.”

    Season 2, Episode Seven: “I Walk the Spiral; You Walk the Line: Owning Your Path So As Not to Get Owned By It.”
    Mar 16 2024
    Jessica Morey returns, just in time to keep Cara Lai and I from burning this disco down.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Meditation: Meeting needs from the bottom up.

    Meditation: Meeting needs from the bottom up.
    Mar 16 2024
    Jessica Morey will offer us a meditation on identifying, being with, and caring for our needs, starting from the fundament--our own bodies.
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    12 mins
  • Season 2, Episode Six: “When, How and Whether to Foist the Dharma Upon Your Children, Part I: ‘Sometimes Daddy Needs to Kill.'”

    Season 2, Episode Six: “When, How and Whether to Foist the Dharma Upon Your Children, Part I: ‘Sometimes Daddy Needs to Kill.'”
    Sep 30 2023
    Welcome to the first episode in our series on when—if ever—is the appropriate time to try to make your baby Buddhist. It's probably a terrible idea, but who knows?
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    59 mins
  • Meditation: Who even has time to meditate?

    Meditation: Who even has time to meditate?
    Sep 30 2023
    In this guided practice, Cara asks, What if we could scrape the very gunk of life off the surface of the present moment and dump it straight into our practice?
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    14 mins
  • Season 2, Episode Five: “Resting Buddha Face.”

    Season 2, Episode Five: “Resting Buddha Face.”
    Jul 9 2023
    In today’s episode, we ask, Do humans have an instinctual orientation towards compassion, kindness, and love—or do we only get there by pushing past our darker impulses?
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Meditation: An especially safe space.

    Meditation: An especially safe space.
    Jul 9 2023
    Jess leads us in a riff on “metta” or “loving-kindness” practice, in which we are invited to imagine an ideal mother figure, as a way of calling forth the ideal maternal qualities that may be hiding in our own minds and hearts.
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    12 mins
  • Season 2, Episode Four: “Talk, Monkey!”

    Season 2, Episode Four: “Talk, Monkey!”
    Apr 30 2023
    In today’s episode, I seem to have no idea what I’m getting myself into when I ask Jess and Cara to comment on whether my son’s insistence that I speak to him through a monkey-shaped hand-puppet is a peculiarity capable of revealing any dhamma-adjacent truths.
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    40 mins
  • Meditation: A place to rest the mind.

    Meditation: A place to rest the mind.
    Apr 30 2023
    Jess gifts us with a meditation especially designed for parents, who may already feel like they’re figure-skating on the edge of a razor blade, and don’t need their meditation practice to be one more veldt they have to hack through.
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    11 mins