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This wonderful dharma talk was recorded live at The Interdependence Project in NYC in 2012.  Equanimity is a spacious stillness of mind that allows us to be with things as they simply are. It does not imply indifference, however. Rather, when equanimity is present, it is the ground out of...

This wonderful dharma talk was recorded live at The Interdependence Project in NYC in 2012.  Equanimity is a spacious stillness of mind that allows us to be with things as they simply are. It does not imply indifference, however. Rather, when equanimity is present, it is the ground out of...

  Buddhist Teachings have been practiced and transmitted for two and half thousand years making their way from India into Burma and Southeast Asia, North to Tibet & Nepal, East to China, Korea and Japan, and West to Pakistan and Afghanistan, among many other places.Through time, the...

Buddhist Teachings have been practiced and transmitted for two and half thousand years making their way from India into Burma and Southeast Asia, North to Tibet & Nepal, East to China, Korea and Japan, and West to Pakistan and Afghanistan, among many other places.Through time, the...

This podcast features an interview between Ethan Nichtern and Susan Piver. This is the second of a two part podcast. Shastri Ethan Nichtern is the founding director and Senior Teacher in Residence of the Interdependence Project. For the past eight years, Ethan has taught ongoing meditation and Buddhist psychology classes and retreats in New York City and around North America. He is on the part-time faculty at Eugene Lang College at New School University and lectures regularly at Brown, Wesleyan, and New York Universities. In the summer of 2010, Ethan was empowered by his teacher, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, as a Shastri, a senior teacher of the Shambhala tradition representing the New York region. He is is the author of the novel, Your Emoticons Won’t Save You and the acclaimed dharma book One City: A Declaration of Interdependence, available on Wisdom Publications. Susan Piver is the bestselling author of six books, including The Hard Questions: 100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say “I Do,” and the award-winning How Not to Be Afraid of Your Own Life. Her new book, entitled The Wisdom of a Broken Heart was released in paperback in January 2011. A student of Buddhism since 1995, Piver teaches workshops on meditation, relationships and creativity. She wrote the relationships column for body + soul magazine, is the meditation expert and contributor at drweil.com, and is a frequent guest on network television, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Today, and The Tyra Banks Show. In 2011, Susan Piver launched The Open Heart Project to teach anyone who would like to how to meditate.

This podcast features an interview between Ethan Nichtern and Susan Piver. This is the second of a two part podcast.Shastri Ethan Nichtern is the founding director and Senior Teacher in Residence of the Interdependence Project.   For the past eight years, Ethan has taught ongoing...

This podcast features an interview between Ethan Nichtern and Susan Piver. This is the first of a two part podcast. Shastri Ethan Nichtern is the founding director and Senior Teacher in Residence of the Interdependence Project. For the past eight years, Ethan has taught ongoing meditation and Buddhist psychology classes and retreats in New York City and around North America. He is on the part-time faculty at Eugene Lang College at New School University and lectures regularly at Brown, Wesleyan, and New York Universities. In the summer of 2010, Ethan was empowered by his teacher, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, as a Shastri, a senior teacher of the Shambhala tradition representing the New York region. He is is the author of the novel, Your Emoticons Won’t Save You and the acclaimed dharma book One City: A Declaration of Interdependence, available on Wisdom Publications. Susan Piver is the bestselling author of six books, including The Hard Questions: 100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say “I Do,” and the award-winning How Not to Be Afraid of Your Own Life. Her new book, entitled The Wisdom of a Broken Heart was released in paperback in January 2011. A student of Buddhism since 1995, Piver teaches workshops on meditation, relationships and creativity. She wrote the relationships column for body + soul magazine, is the meditation expert and contributor at drweil.com, and is a frequent guest on network television, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Today, and The Tyra Banks Show. In 2011, Susan Piver launched The Open Heart Project to teach anyone who would like to how to meditate. Subscribe to the ID Project

This podcast features an interview between Ethan Nichtern and Susan Piver. This is the first of a two part podcast.Shastri Ethan Nichtern is the founding director and Senior Teacher in Residence of the Interdependence Project.   For the past eight years, Ethan has taught ongoing...

Welcome to the ID Project Podcast. This podcast features a lecture by Joseph Loizzo titled Tibet's Time Machine and the Activism of Global Happiness. It was recorded on February 29th, 2012 in New York City. This is the second of a two part podcast.This talk introduces the futuristic science and...

Welcome to the ID Project Podcast. This podcast features a lecture by Joseph Loizzo titled Tibet's Time Machine and the Activism of Global Happiness. It was recorded on February 29th, 2012 in New York City. This is the second of a two part podcast. This talk introduces the futuristic science and contemplative activism of the Kalachakra Tantra some call the Time-Machine or Wheel of Time. While skills like mindfulness were developed for monastic living, a rare tradition based at Nalanda, the world’s first university, set out to develop and spread socially engaged arts and sciences meant to pacify and transform the militarized society of ancient India and the newly civilized world. The most modern, scientific form of this rare tradition, the Time-Machine curriculum was preserved for posterity in a time-capsule: the mountain kingdom hidden in Central Asia called Shambhala (Shangrila in the classic Lost Horizons). As the prophecy goes, the crown jewel of the kingdom, its system for teaching contemplative altruism in a world torn by stress, trauma and violence, will help spark the dawn of a new global era of inner and outer peace for all humanity when the time is ripe. In this talk, Dr. Loizzo unpacks this tradition's exceptional approach to non-violent activism: the embodiment of heroic altruism based on tapping the neural network and flow of bliss chemistry and harnessing it to transform our reactive body-minds into open networks of non-local happiness and community-building inspiration. Joseph Loizzo, M.D., Ph.D., is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and Columbia-trained Buddhist scholar with over thirty years' experience studying the beneficial effects of meditation on healing and learning. He is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in Integrative Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he researches and teaches mind/body health. He has taught science and religion, the scientific study of religious experience, and the Indo-Tibetan mind sciences at Columbia University, where he currently is adjunct Assistant Professor of Religion at the Columbia Center for Buddhist Studies.

Welcome to the ID Project Podcast. This podcast features a lecture by Joseph Loizzo titled Tibet's Time Machine and the Activism of Global Happiness. It was recorded on February 29th, 2012 in New York City. This is the first of a two part podcast.This talk introduces the futuristic science and...

"The problem with modern institutions is that they tend to take on a life of their own, as new types of collective ego." -- from The Three Poisons, Institutionalized The basis of transformational social engagement is the need to work on oneself as well as on the system. So many revolutions & reform movements end up simply replacing one gang of thugs with another. If we have not begun to transform our own greed, ill will and delusions, our efforts to address their institutionalized forms are likely to be useless, or worse. Join professor David. R. Loy for a lecture and conversation about how to approach the need for both personal and social transformation in order to address our current economic, social and ecological crises. David R. Loy is a professor, writer, and Zen teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism. He is author of several books including Money, Sex, War, Karma, The World is Made of Stories", co-editor of A Buddhist Response to the Climate Emergency, and The Great Awakening. He has a PhD from from the National University of Singapore, and was most recently in residence at Naropa University with a Lenz fellowship.

"The problem with modern institutions is that they tend to take on a life of their own, as new types of collective ego." -- from The Three Poisons, Institutionalized The basis of transformational social engagement is the need to work on oneself as well as on the system. So many revolutions & reform movements end up simply replacing one gang of thugs with another. If we have not begun to transform our own greed, ill will and delusions, our efforts to address their institutionalized forms are likely to be useless, or worse. Join professor David. R. Loy for a lecture and conversation about how to approach the need for both personal and social transformation in order to address our current economic, social and ecological crises. David R. Loy is a professor, writer, and Zen teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism. He is author of several books including Money, Sex, War, Karma, The World is Made of Stories", co-editor of A Buddhist Response to the Climate Emergency, and The Great Awakening. He has a PhD from from the National University of Singapore, and was most recently in residence at Naropa University with a Lenz fellowship.

Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," is a Halliburton developed natural gas drilling technology that is laying waste to our our country, as documented in the movie Gasland. http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/   David Braun is a co-founder of United for Action and the National Grassroots Coalition...