“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”
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."
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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
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 Door
“We share over 50% of our DNA with fungi. We’re more closely related to fungi than plants.” – Alex Dorr
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 racialize ourselves or others… now we’re getting to where we can start to actually get off that karmic cycle. – Greg Thomas
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 listening and deep understanding. – Josh Summers
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 only on those things that are informed by wisdom and care. – Ken Wilber
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 to feel integrated. – Josh Summers
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 keep us safe, but in their frozen state they alienate us from flowing with life. – Josh Summers
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 landscape and the silence of the self in contemplation. They listened to this silence with hopes of transforming their identities and reimagining community.” – Douglas Christie
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 and attention so that student and customize – within their own experience – a way to nudge their particular pattern, whatever it might be, towards homeostasis.” – Josh Summers
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 a person dies, they become spirit again. It is called spirit, just as melted ice changes its name to water.” – Wang Chong (Taoist philosopher, AD 27-97)
My Take on Yin Yoga and Chinese Medicine | Talk with Josh
Yin Yoga collaborates with the organs of Chinese Medicine to support holistic health. It’s not just a matter of stimulating the channels; it’s a matter of optimizing organ health through the integration of posture, breath and psycho-spiritual practice. – Josh Summers
The Language of Jazz | Aaron Goldberg
“Everything I play is a reaction to everything that I just played and to what everybody else is playing at that moment. Great jazz is played when multiple people play together with that kind of necessity and mindset.” – Aaron Goldberg
Corks and Stones | Guided Meditation with Josh
Mindfulness functions like a stone that doesn’t stop the flow of the river, rather it comes to a deeper and calmer relationship to the flowing content of the river of experience. – Josh Summers
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