Random Suffering Podcasts

GOD: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher – The Podcast is a true story of a philosopher’s conversations with God. Dr. Jerry L. Martin was a lifelong agnostic. But one day he had occasion to pray. To his vast surprise, God answered – in words. Being a philosopher, he had a lot of questions. And God had a lot to tell him. Dr. Martin served as head of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Colorado philosophy department. Find out more at www.GodAnAutobiography.com

Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

Tags: agnostic, experience with God, God, God speaking, non-dualism, nondual, Philosophy, philosophy of religion, prayer, religion, secularlism, suffering, unbelief

With the arrival of smartphones and social media, we were told that the world was becoming more connected. But as mental health declines while our digital addictions grow, it’s clear that something human has been lost in the shuffle. On The I Project, we dive into the roots of this disconnection and explore new ways of thinking, seeing, and being. The I Project is the podcast of Immersioneer, a sense-making community focused on deepening human dialogue in the digital age. The podcast is hosted by founder Clancey Hilkene. ​

Categories: Education, Religion & Spirituality

Tags: anxiety, Awakening, buddhism, clanceyhilkene, consciousness, Culture, daoism, depression, ego, emergentproperties, evolution, humanconnection, Identity, immersioneer, immersioneerproject, inspiration, liberation, Meaning, meditation, mindfulness, Motivation, Philosophy, presence, psychedelics, Psychology, purpose, scientificmethod, selfactualization, selfhelp, selfrealization, spirituality, suffering, Technology, theimmersioneerproject, Transformation, wakingup

The first path factor of the Buddha’s Eightfold Noble Path is right view, also known as wise understanding. Though right view is the first of the Eightfold path factors, it represents the fruition of the succeeding seven path factors. Right view and right intention (the second path factor) together encompass supreme training in wisdom; a training designed to awaken the faculty of penetrative understanding—that which knows things as they truly are. The Buddha defined right view as understanding dukkha—the inherent unsatisfactoriness of all experience—its origin, cessation and the path leading to its cessation. He also defined right view as wisely comprehending Dependent Origination—the Buddha’s topology of mind and the cognitive-affective perceptual mechanisms that cause us to misapprehend self and world as separate, autonomous and permanent. The Buddha taught that wrong view is the greatest source of unwholesome mind states and by extension, unwholesome decisions and behaviors. The fruition of right view is a heart-mind liberated from avidyā, the delusion of suffering.

Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

Tags: Awakening, buddhism, Buddhist psychology, Buddhist teachings, Eightfold path, liberation from suffering, mindfulness, suffering