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Sam and Andrew discuss meditation, spirituality, dark retreats, lucid dreaming, and more.
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Sam, Dan, and Joseph discuss different meanings of nonduality across Buddhist traditions.
Sam, Ajahn Kovilo, and Ajahn Nisabho discuss Buddhism, nonduality, skepticism, and science.
Sam and Jitindriyā discuss Jitindriyā’s early influences and how her practice has evolved.
Sam and James discuss Advaita, Dzogchen, instruction, ethics, perception, and mortality.
Sam and Dan discuss the benefits of dualistic practice and the freedom of nondual insight.
Sam and Annaka discuss her audio documentary exploring consciousness and the cosmos.
Sam and Michael discuss the key differences between dualistic and nondual mindfulness.
Sam and Elias discuss Elias’s upbringing, nonduality in Sufism, psychedelics, and more.
Sam and Tami discuss the nature of awakening, meditation, ethics, consciousness, and more.
Sam and Shinzen discuss how—and to what extent—nondual insight can influence well-being.
Sam and Amishi discuss the study of attention, distraction, emotion, awareness, and more.
Sam and Henry discuss meditative insight, emptiness, jhana meditation, and more.
Sam and Christof discuss the neuroscience of consciousness and the nature of existence.
Sam and Peter discuss nonduality, degrees of awakening, emotion, teaching, and simplicity.
Sam and Robert discuss causation, fatalism, justice, ethics, luck, meritocracy, and more.
Sam and Shinzen discuss nonduality, psychedelics, Shinzen’s mindfulness system, and more.
Sam and Jetsunma discuss ease, effort, ethics, psychedelics, and monastic life for women.
Sam and Sylvia discuss the power of compassion, the importance of ethics, LSD, and more.
Sam and Diana discuss Tibetan Buddhism, Zen, effective communication, insight, and ethics.
Sam and André discuss nonduality, free will, consciousness, AI, human progress, and more.
Sam and Rick discuss nonduality, neuroscience, psychedelics, managing anxiety, and more.
Sam and Andy discuss predictive processing, psychedelics, AI, consciousness, and more.
Sam and Mark discuss outdoor practice, living with wisdom, humility in teaching, and more.
Sam and Shamil discuss perception, psychedelics, emptiness, Effective Altruism, and more.
Sam and Christopher discuss extremes in meditation—and the importance of finding balance.
Sam and Swami discuss the role of nonduality in Advaita Vedanta and Tibetan Buddhism.
Sam and Loch discuss attention, awareness, meditation instruction, selflessness, and more.
Sam and Kelly discuss yoga nidra, teaching meditation in prisons, NSDR, ethics, and more.
Sam and Joan discuss mindfulness, nonduality, striving, and the meaning of enlightenment.
Sam and John discuss psychological freedom, spiritual communities, psychedelics, and more.
Sam and Jay discuss the illusion of the self, free will, emptiness, truth, and Buddhism.
Sam and Nikki discuss Nikki’s precarious childhood, nirvana, compassion, ease, and more.
Sam and Gangaji discuss Papaji, his teaching style, the guru-disciple framework, and more.
Sam and Jayasāra discuss monasticism, Theravada, Vipassana, psychedelics, grace, and more.
Sam and Joseph discuss the nature of enlightenment, nonduality, and meditative progress.
Sam and Stephan discuss Zen, Dzogchen, Advaita, ethics, and sudden vs. gradual awakening.
Sam and Evan discuss Buddhism's practices, insights, and compatibility with science.
Sam and Ian discuss hemisphere specialization, its consequences, consciousness, and more.
Sam and Jim discuss delusion, realization, nonduality, suffering, emotion, and more.
Sam and Tara discuss dualistic vs. nondual practice, effortlessness, compassion, and more.
Sam and Steven discuss Sam’s background, mindfulness, happiness, neuroscience, and more.
Sam and Leo discuss how meditation can help us improve habits, emotion, and relationships.
Sam, Willoughby, and Jared discuss meditation’s psychological risks—and mitigating them.
Sam and Richard discuss the advantages and criticisms of Douglas Harding’s unique method.
Sam and Adyashanti discuss meditation, nonduality, ethics, and living an examined life.
Sam and Loch discuss the stages of awakening and their role in everyday life.
Sam and Judson discuss how meditation can help modern psychiatry leverage ancient wisdom.
Sam and Henry discuss Zen Buddhism, koans, emptiness, and dual vs. nondual practice.
Sam and Diana discuss various meditation styles, ethics, and mindfulness-teacher training.
Sam and Rupert discuss philosophic materialism, well-being, stabilizing insight, and more.
Sam and Frank discuss mortality, bereavement, secular rituals, psychedelics, and more.
Sam and Stephen discuss a dogma-free conception of Buddhism based on ethics and action.
Sam and Andrew discuss his community, its dissolution, the guru-disciple model, and more.
Sam and Jack discuss the nature of awakening, stages of training, and societal progress.
Sam and Mingyur Rinpoche discuss awareness’ nature, informal practice, emotion, and more.
Sam and David discuss trauma-sensitive meditation practices that help—not hinder—healing.
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