Meaningness Podcast

<p>A facilitated discussion of how the participants find sacredness in the actual world—and in community.</p><p>This Vajrayana Q&A session is an Evolving Ground online discussion I co-hosted with Jared Janes. You can...

<p>“Dzogchen Street Preacher” is the overall title for a series of performance pieces I planned in 2009. This extremely brief one, “Kadag,” was meant to introduce the whole thing.</p><p>I was on the verge of recording...

<p>Before controversy and fame, Jordan Peterson was a psychologist theorizing myth and meaning.</p><p>Jake Orthwein points out striking similarities in Peterson’s work and David’s. Along with them, fundamental...

<p>Rationality is stereotypically masculine. What about meta-rationality?</p><p>Transcript:</p><p>Charlie: What’s the connection between gender and meta-rationality?</p><p>David: I had never thought to ask...

<p>The common civilizational pattern of a separate priesthood and aristocracy casts light on current political dysfunction.</p><p>This video follows “Nobility and virtue are distinct sorts of goodness.” You might want...

<p>Nobility is the wise and just use of power.</p><p>Nobility is not moral virtue. They are not in conflict; they may correlate, but they don't always coincide.</p><p>Nobility is the proper matter of...

<p>A visual, kinesthetic, embodied experience 𐡸 A fish-eye lens and a magnifying glass 𐡸 The little clicker wheel 𐡸 Nurturing a plot of woodland 𐡸 Becoming the space, unstuck in time 𐡸 Freed up to play</p><p>Like...

<p>A nine-minute radio sermonette.</p><p>I think I may be doing a bunch of these. Subscribe to get all of them!</p><p>Possibly I’ll create one every day or two! And maybe you don’t want that many emails? So I could post...

<p>Emptiness, form, and the Big Bang 𐡸 How understanding creates students 𐡸 Buddhism outside institutions</p><p>This short video explains two stanzas from the Evolving Ground invocation liturgy. The first is an origin...

<p>A seven-minute radio sermonette.</p><p>I think I may be doing a bunch of these. Subscribe to get all of them!</p><p>Possibly I’ll create one every day or two! And maybe you don’t want that many emails? So I could...

<p>Rigpa is Dzogchen’s word roughly equivalent to “enlightenment.” </p><p>But what is rigpa, actually? And what does it imply for ethics? </p><p>A conversation with Varun Godbole.</p><p>This is a clip from the monthly...

<p>What is learning math good for? — Robert Kegan and “meaning-making” — Existentialism’s error — Narcissism and tyranny — How can we avoid radical relativism? — My experience of teaching</p><p>This is the video from my...

<p>The felt experience of mathematics — witchcraft and black magic — “Shut up, kid!” — what is a real number? — shocked and embarrassed — clouds all the way down — a choir of angels singing — painting Cthulhu’s third...

<p>How thoughts work — goddesses at the origin of philosophy — inspiration in adult development — how myths transform society and culture — Spock and Jimi Hendrix — entrepreneurship, purpose, and value</p><p>Video from...

<p>Following our earlier conversation about Ultraspeaking and Vajrayana, we add adult developmental stage theory to the mix: three transformational frameworks in synergy.</p><p>We recorded this when Charlie was in...