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Nov 20, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Paul Knitter
- A Catholic questions whether Jesus is the “one and only savior”
- How Paul integrates Buddhism and Christianity
- Paul: Jesus, like the Buddha, “fully woke up”
- How “interbeing” leads to loving thy neighbor
- Meditation, the Eucharist, and the feeling that “all is well”
- Paul: Peace in the world starts with peace within yourself
Nov 15, 2015 —
David Bryce Yaden & David Vago
TAGS Buddhism | cognitive science | meditation | mindfulness | psychology | religion | self | spirituality
Oct 26, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Dena Merriam
- Commonalities between Hindu and Buddhist meditation
- What a Buddhist calls “non-self,” a Hindu might call “oneness”
- Dena decries the commercialization of meditation
- The work of the Global Peace Initiative of Women
- An alliance of contemplative practitioners
- Could meditation help solve the Israeli/Palestinian conflict?
Oct 20, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Jay Michaelson
- Jay’s new book on sadness, The Gate of Tears
- The most common mistake we make in dealing with sadness
- Examining the contours of your negative emotions
- Connections between Jewish and Buddhist teachings
- Jay: Pushing away the difficult is 90% of the difficult
- Spirituality and the power of negative thinking
TAGS Buddhism | foreign policy | happiness | Judaism | meditation | psychology | sadness | spirituality
Oct 19, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Jorge Ferrer
- Do all religions have the same “esoteric core?”
- The psychedelic origins of transpersonal psychology
- Aligning your instincts, consciousness, and heart through “participatory spirituality”
- Constructing reality through “embodied cognition”
- Why Jorge would object to making participatory spirituality a religion
- The complicated morality of “enlightened” spiritual teachers
Sep 9, 2015 —
Robert Wright & John Thatamanil
- Paul Tillich’s conception of God as “the ground of being”
- Viewing the Christian tradition as symbolic, not literal
- Tillich’s engagement with Eastern mysticism
- How Tillich wrestled with the problem of evil
- Tillich’s recasting of the idea of divine revelation
- Is there consolation in Tillich’s view of death?
Aug 15, 2015 —
Robert Wright & John Thatamanil
- The Hindu idea that you are one with the universe
- Moral implications of this idea of oneness
- How different are Hindu and Buddhist philosophy?
- Grappling with the Buddhist doctrine of “emptiness”
- Connecting Hindu belief with the Christian Trinity
- John: No, believers are not all “climbing the same mountain
Jul 30, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Paul Bloom
TAGS Barack Obama | Buddhism | empathy | ethics | evil | justice | meditation | moral imagination | Peter Singer | psychology | war
Aug 2, 2014 —
Robert Wright & Miri Albahari
- Why understanding “no-self” matters: it might get you to Nirvana
- “Tanha”—the root of our suffering
- Miri’s maverick interpretation of the no-self doctrine
- Miri and Bob talk about their meditation retreats
- Things get weird: A universal field of consciousness?
- Does losing your self making you a better (non-)person?
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