What Is Nonduality?
Sam, Dan, and Joseph discuss different meanings of nonduality across Buddhist traditions.
The Landscape of Wisdom
Sam, Ajahn Kovilo, and Ajahn Nisabho discuss Buddhism, nonduality, skepticism, and science.
Truth and Freedom
Sam and Jitindriyā discuss Jitindriyā’s early influences and how her practice has evolved.
Patterns of Emptiness
Sam and James discuss Advaita, Dzogchen, instruction, ethics, perception, and mortality.
Freedom from Seeking
Sam and Dan discuss the benefits of dualistic practice and the freedom of nondual insight.
What If Consciousness Is Fundamental?
Sam and Annaka discuss her audio documentary exploring consciousness and the cosmos.
The Fundamental Insight
Sam and Michael discuss the key differences between dualistic and nondual mindfulness.
The Sufi Way
Sam and Elias discuss Elias’s upbringing, nonduality in Sufism, psychedelics, and more.
Cutting Through Illusion
Sam and Tami discuss the nature of awakening, meditation, ethics, consciousness, and more.
Edges of Freedom
Sam and Shinzen discuss how—and to what extent—nondual insight can influence well-being.
The Roots of Attention
Sam and Amishi discuss the study of attention, distraction, emotion, awareness, and more.
Stages of Practice
Sam and Henry discuss meditative insight, emptiness, jhana meditation, and more.
Consciousness and the Physical World
Sam and Christof discuss the neuroscience of consciousness and the nature of existence.
Just This
Sam and Peter discuss nonduality, degrees of awakening, emotion, teaching, and simplicity.
We Really Don’t Have Free Will?
Sam and Robert discuss causation, fatalism, justice, ethics, luck, meritocracy, and more.
Dimensions of Practice
Sam and Shinzen discuss nonduality, psychedelics, Shinzen’s mindfulness system, and more.
Effort and Freedom
Sam and Jetsunma discuss ease, effort, ethics, psychedelics, and monastic life for women.
Poise and Compassion
Sam and Sylvia discuss the power of compassion, the importance of ethics, LSD, and more.
Ethics and Emptiness
Sam and Diana discuss Tibetan Buddhism, Zen, effective communication, insight, and ethics.
The Mirror of Consciousness
Sam and André discuss nonduality, free will, consciousness, AI, human progress, and more.
The Factors of Awakening
Sam and Rick discuss nonduality, neuroscience, psychedelics, managing anxiety, and more.
Predicting Reality
Sam and Andy discuss predictive processing, psychedelics, AI, consciousness, and more.
The Natural State
Sam and Mark discuss outdoor practice, living with wisdom, humility in teaching, and more.
Constructing Self and World
Sam and Shamil discuss perception, psychedelics, emptiness, Effective Altruism, and more.
The Whole of Life
Sam and Christopher discuss extremes in meditation—and the importance of finding balance.
The Ultimate Nature of Things
Sam and Swami discuss the role of nonduality in Advaita Vedanta and Tibetan Buddhism.
The Most Important Thing
Sam and Loch discuss attention, awareness, meditation instruction, selflessness, and more.
The Seeing of It
Sam and Kelly discuss yoga nidra, teaching meditation in prisons, NSDR, ethics, and more.
The Pathless Path
Sam and Joan discuss mindfulness, nonduality, striving, and the meaning of enlightenment.
Investigating the Nature of Experience
Sam and John discuss psychological freedom, spiritual communities, psychedelics, and more.
Do You Really Have a Self?
Sam and Jay discuss the illusion of the self, free will, emptiness, truth, and Buddhism.
Practicing with Ease
Sam and Nikki discuss Nikki’s precarious childhood, nirvana, compassion, ease, and more.
Being Still
Sam and Gangaji discuss Papaji, his teaching style, the guru-disciple framework, and more.
Wisdom of the Masters
Sam and Jayasāra discuss monasticism, Theravada, Vipassana, psychedelics, grace, and more.
The Stages of Enlightenment
Sam and Joseph discuss the nature of enlightenment, nonduality, and meditative progress.
The Direct Path
Sam and Stephan discuss Zen, Dzogchen, Advaita, ethics, and sudden vs. gradual awakening.
Science in Solitude
Sam and Evan discuss Buddhism's practices, insights, and compatibility with science.
The Divided Mind
Sam and Ian discuss hemisphere specialization, its consequences, consciousness, and more.
Wrestling the Paradox
Sam and Jim discuss delusion, realization, nonduality, suffering, emotion, and more.
The Bridge to Compassion
Sam and Tara discuss dualistic vs. nondual practice, effortlessness, compassion, and more.
Knowing the Mind
Sam and Steven discuss Sam’s background, mindfulness, happiness, neuroscience, and more.
The Wisdom of Uncertainty
Sam and Leo discuss how meditation can help us improve habits, emotion, and relationships.
The Dark Side of Meditation
Sam, Willoughby, and Jared discuss meditation’s psychological risks—and mitigating them.
The Illusory Self
Sam and Richard discuss the advantages and criticisms of Douglas Harding’s unique method.
Effort and Effortlessness
Sam and Adyashanti discuss meditation, nonduality, ethics, and living an examined life.
Nondual Mindfulness
Sam and Loch discuss the stages of awakening and their role in everyday life.
Mindfulness and Addiction
Sam and Judson discuss how meditation can help modern psychiatry leverage ancient wisdom.
The Way of Zen
Sam and Henry discuss Zen Buddhism, koans, emptiness, and dual vs. nondual practice.
Natural Awareness
Sam and Diana discuss various meditation styles, ethics, and mindfulness-teacher training.
The Nature of Awareness
Sam and Rupert discuss philosophic materialism, well-being, stabilizing insight, and more.
Death and Dying
Sam and Frank discuss mortality, bereavement, secular rituals, psychedelics, and more.
Skeptical Buddhism
Sam and Stephen discuss a dogma-free conception of Buddhism based on ethics and action.
A Cautionary Tale
Sam and Andrew discuss his community, its dissolution, the guru-disciple model, and more.
Reflections on the Path
Sam and Jack discuss the nature of awakening, stages of training, and societal progress.
Live at the Wiltern
Sam and Mingyur Rinpoche discuss awareness’ nature, informal practice, emotion, and more.
Meditation and Trauma
Sam and David discuss trauma-sensitive meditation practices that help—not hinder—healing.
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