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Hosted by Vince Fakhoury Horn · religion · EN
Evolving Dharma in the Age of the Network www.buddhistgeeks.org
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Signup to Generate a PitchBuddhist Geeks is hosted by Vince Fakhoury Horn. The show has published 496 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Most Slept-On Meditation Object" (7 May 2026, 14 minutes), "Focusing on the Fire Kasina" (4 May 2026, 7 minutes), and "Access Concentration and the Kasina" (29 April 2026, 6 minutes).
Buddhist Geeks publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 35 minutes across 496 episodes.
Booking probability for Buddhist Geeks is 38%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Buddhist Geeks requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Buddhist Geeks's contact route on record: verified email.
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Vince Fakhoury Horn hosts Buddhist Geeks, a religion podcast with 496 episodes published.
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<p>In “The Most Slept-On Meditation Object,” Vince Horn introduces the kasina — the visual concentration object that dominated Early Buddhist practice yet is barely used today — and lays out a 12-week curriculum that...
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<p>In Focusing on the Fire Kasina Vince Fakhoury Horn introduces the Fire Kasina meditation practice, emphasizing the primacy of concentration and the recursive process of learning through focused attention on a candle...
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<p>In Access Concentration and the Kasina, Vince Fakhoury Horn explains how kasina meditation cultivates stable attention by letting a visual object fill awareness until it naturally enters the foreground of experience...
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<p>In “Metta & Compassion Vibes,” Emily Horn explores the crucial difference between befriending difficulty through metta and the deeper, boundary-dissolving willingness of compassion to actually meet suffering — and...
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<p>In “AI Psychosis vs. AI Awakening,” Vince Fakhoury Horn argues that the same biological machinery enabling AI-induced delusion also enables AI-assisted awakening, and introduces his Interspective.ai approach — a...
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<p>In “The Cost of Truth,” Vince Fakhoury Horn speaks with Daniel Klein—a former religious Zionist settler turned outspoken critic of the ideology—about dehumanization, self-forgiveness, and the courage required to...
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<p>Stephen Torrence joins Vince Fakhoury Horn to share his experience teaching generative AI in Bhutan and explore the audacious vision behind the Gelephu Mindfulness City — a million-person city being built by Bhutan's...
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<p>📝 Dialogue Preface:</p><p> In this recorded dialogue, I’m sharing the exact words and exact results from a discussion that I had with Claude Opus 4.5 on January 31, 2026. This is the kind of dialogue that I’ve had...
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<p>📝 A Note From Vince Horn to Frame this a bit: </p><p>This AI-based overview is based on a set of dialogues that I will be publishing in the next few days, in which I try to demonstrate that LLMs can be taught to...
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<p>In “The Modern Hindrance of Unworthiness,” Emily West Horn explores unworthiness as a contemporary inner hindrance, examining how mindfulness, compassion, and heartfulness allow this pattern to be recognized...
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<p>Leigh Brasington explains how the mind progresses through the four jhānas—from initial access concentration and the energetic, pleasure-filled first jhāna to the progressively quieter states of happiness...
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<p>🤖 AI Transparency: The transcript below was lightly edited, for both spelling & grammar errors, using ChatGPT. </p><p>In this talk jhāna teacher Leigh Brasington draws on teachings from his teacher Ayya Khema...
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<p>Vince Fakhoury Horn reflects on his experiences within the Insight meditation tradition, as an authorized teacher in the lineage, arguing that its senior leaders have remained complicit, through their silence, on the...
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<p>In this Buddhist Geeks episode, Vince Fakhoury Horn and Robert Wright explore the intersection of Buddhism, ethics, and geopolitics as they reflect on Palestine, Jewish-Buddhist responses, moral responsibility, and...
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<p>Vince Fakhoury Horn: The Flavors of Jhāna—I can’t remember where I first heard this term. I think it was from you or from Kenneth [Folk].</p><p>Brian Newman: Maybe we should start there. You came to me and said...
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<p>Vince Fakhoury Horn: I was thinking about where to start with the 9th Jhāna, and I think the first thing to say is that the 9th Jhāna is not a state. So why in the world are we within a community of practice called...
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<p>This episode of Buddhist Geeks features a candid and heartfelt conversation between Vince Fakhoury Horn and Tasshin Fogleman about Palestine, the TPOT subculture, and what it means to embody true Bodhisattvahood...
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<p>What is Access Concentration?</p><p>This is the question I want to bring forward in this talk.</p><p>I recorded something on this topic many years ago—too many, honestly, to comfortably admit. At the time, I was...
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<p>By Vince Fakhoury Horn</p><p>Today, in The Jhāna Community, I want to center our exploration around the completion phase—also known as enlightenment.</p><p>What is the relationship between enlightenment and jhāna...
<p>Overview: In this episode, Vince Horn and Daniel Thorson explore the evolving landscape of Western Buddhism, unpacking the tensions between Consensus Buddhism and Pragmatic Dharma, while reflecting on ethics...
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Visiting Professor of Science and Religion at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta
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