Everyday Sublime: Shadow | Light | Unity

The Everyday Sublime podcast explores a full spectrum spirituality. Each week Josh will release a dharma talk, and each month Josh will publish a long-form conversation with a thought-leader from the field. As Stephen Batchelor says, "the mystical does not transcend the world, but saturates it."

Available in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Play, Castbox, Overcast, PlayerFM, Beyondpod, PocketCasts, TuneIn, and (almost) anywhere else you listen to podcasts!

Back Seat Meditation | Dharma Talk with Josh

“Yesterday’s insights are like yesterday’s fish, unrefrigerated.” – Larry Rosenberg

From Captive to Captivated | Dharma Talk with Josh

Within the dream state, unless we’re lucid, we tend to be held captive by the content of the dream. But in waking up, we open to the possibility of being captivated by experience. – Josh Summers

Zhuang Zi’s Butterfly Dream | Dharma Talk with Josh

“I, Zhuang Zi, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Zhuang Zi. Soon, I awakened and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.” – Zhuang Zi

Mindfulness of Breathing and Beyond | Talk and Guided Meditation with Josh

“Mindfulness is remembering how to observe the mind’s attention as it moves moment-to-moment and remembering what to do with any arising phenomena!” – Bhante Vimalaramsi

From the Pit of the Belly | Short Reflection with Josh

“You must realize that the center of the universe is the pit of your belly.” – Harada-roshi

Ballast in the Storm | Short Reflection from Josh

“We can and must, each of us, individually, be a ballast, a reminder of what is good and right, of peace and justice, of supporting the environment, of trusting in individual experiences, voices, choices and stories.” – Nadia Colburn

Bahiya’s Burning Doubt | Short Reflection with Josh

“Then, Bahiya, you should train yourself thus: In reference to the seen, there will only be the seen. In reference to the heard, only the heard. In reference to the sensed, only the sensed. In reference to the cognized, only the cognized. That is how you should train yourself.” – Buddha

The Yin-Yang Heart | Dharma Talk with Josh

“Most people are afraid of suffering. But suffering is a kind of mud to help the lotus flower of happiness grow. There can be no lotus flower without the mud.” —Thich Nhat Hanh

Compassion Amidst Crisis | Dharma Talk with Josh

“It is not billionaires or technology that will save us, but instead a ‘vitalist mass movement,’ driven by human spirit that may actually be magical enough to change hearts and minds across the world.” – Amitav Ghosh

Deracialization and Antiracism | Amiel Handelsman

“Racial essentialism keeps racism alive. The more entrenched racial categories are in the public mind, the easier it is for white power advocates to use them for their own nefarious purposes—and for the rest of us to slip into old stereotypes and cognitive biases.” – Amiel Handelsman

Deracializing Consciousness | Dharma Talk with Josh

“Because, as the first line of the Dhammapada says, ‘All that we are is the result of what we have thought,’ the transformation of ‘sociological and psychological structures’ must take place initially in our own minds – and those of others – if we truly hope to address the root cause of social suffering.” – Charles Johnson

Enlightening Shadows | Dharma Talk with Josh

“And if he were forcibly dragged up the steep and rugged ascent and not let go till he had been dragged out [of the cave] into the sunlight, the process would be a painful one, to which he would much object, and when he emerged into the light his eyes would be so dazzled by the glare of it that he wouldn’t be able to see a single one of the things he was now told were real.” – Plato, “The Republic”

Culture Shock of Self | Dharma Talk with Josh

In becoming aware of our conditioning, we can then practice ways of creatively establishing more skillful habits of relationship and engagement. – Josh Summers

An Ancient City | Dharma Talk with Josh

“I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that ancient path, that ancient road? It is just this Noble Eightfold Path; that is: wise view, wise intention, wise speech, wise action, wise livelihood, wise effort, wise mindfulness and wise stillness.” – The Buddha