In this talk, Josh responds to questions about the relationship between dharma practice and the many crises that are burning in our world. “It is not billionaires or technology that […]
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Deracialization and Antiracism | Amiel Handelsman
In this episode, Josh interview’s Amiel Handelsman on why it’s important to deracialize people as part of combatting racism. “Racial essentialism keeps racism alive. The more entrenched racial categories are […]
Deracializing Consciousness | Dharma Talk with Josh
In this talk, Josh reflects on how dharma practice transforms and deracializes consciousness. “Because, as the first line of the Dhammapada says, ‘All that we are is the result of […]
Enlightening Shadows | Dharma Talk with Josh
In this talk, Josh offers a dharmic interpretation of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” and how meditation helps free us from being defined by conceptual projections and awakens us to […]
Culture Shock of Self | Dharma Talk with Josh
In this talk, Josh explores the conditioned “self,” and how meditation awakens us to this conditioning. Sometimes these awakenings can feel quite shocking, similar to culture shock. “In becoming aware […]
An Ancient City | Dharma Talk with Josh
The teachings of the Buddha, known as the Dharma, are like a map that shows the spiritual seeker how to walk the path of awakening. Josh reflects on this map […]
On self-Fragility | Dharma Talk with Josh
In awakening to our conditioning, just like the Buddha, we can creatively collaborate with new forms of conditioning informed by compassion and wisdom. – Josh Summers
Functional Mushrooms for Functional Health | Alex Dorr
In this episode, Josh talks with Mushroom Revival founder, Alex Dorr, about how functional mushrooms can support mental and physical health. “We share over 50% of our DNA with fungi. […]
Seeing and Freeing Patterns | Dharma Talk with Josh
With time, practice will reveal our unresolved wounds that are still wound within the conditions of original trauma. – Josh Summers
Rooted For Wind | Dharma Talk with Josh
The conscientious young monk Meditating three years alone Can no longer be moved By the four worldly winds. – from fictional Zen story told by Ajahn Brahm
An Empty Cup | Dharma Talk with Josh
Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup? – Zen Master Nan-in
Questioning Compassion | Dharma Talk with Josh
Even as a mother protects with her life her child, her only child, so with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings. – Buddha (from the Metta Sutta)
Race, Jazz and Healing | Greg Thomas
When we shift from being subject to a racial worldview to looking at it as an object; when we are able to see how it works and work to not […]
Compassionate Inquiry | Dharma Talk with Josh
The Buddha spoke of sati (mindfulness) and sampajanna (clear comprehension) as the twin aspects of awareness that nurture wisdom and compassion. Mindfulness and clear comprehension suggest the relationship between deep […]
Compassionate Alignment | Dharma Talk with Josh
Real compassion includes wisdom and so it makes judgments of care and concern: it says some things are good, and some things are bad, and I will choose to act […]
Compassionate Receptivity | Dharma Talk with Josh
The three intentions of compassionate RAIN (receptivity, alignment, inquiry, and negotiation): May I create the conditions for this energy or part of me to feel safe, to feel heard, and […]
Listening Like Water | Dharma Talk with Josh
Trauma – any experience that cannot be integrated at the time of its occurrence – causes parts of oneself to freeze, like blocks of ice. These frozen parts evolve to […]
St. Anthony’s Valentine | Dharma Talk with Josh
“More than anything, there is a value placed on listening as closely as possible to the mysterious silence that supports existence, which is both the actual silence of the desert […]
Yin Yoga and World Peace – A Dreamer’s Dream
Can Yin Yoga heal the wounds of the world and bring about world peace? Probably not – at least not on its own – but it might be an important complement to other more familiar forms of activism.
A Functional Approach to Harmonizing Qi with Yin Yoga | Talk with Josh
“As a teacher, you won’t be able to address the specific needs of each individual. However, what you can offer is a creative way of working with posture, breath, intention […]
What is Qi? | Talk with Josh (republished)
“Qi produces the human body just as water becomes ice. As water freezes into ice, so Qi coagulates to form the human body. When ice melts, it becomes water. When […]