Episodes
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A childhood fascination with caves has led me to a lifetime of great adventures underground.
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After developing a reputation as a mountain climbing “sandbagger,” it should have come as no surprise that a songwriter-climber friend of mine would eventually craft a playful song poking fun at me. What’s surprising is how good the song turned out!
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In this episode, I reminisce on the dozens of celebrities I’ve encountered over the years.
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Lifestyle design allowed me to retire at the age of 41. I’m not a wealthy man but I live an incredibly rich life.
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With life becoming progressively more strained and strange—death, despair, giving up, loneliness and isolation in the world around me—I turn to meditation to navigate the uncertain waters ahead.
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Reflections on some of the creators of the American counterculture—Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” Ken Kesey & the Merry Pranksters, and the Grateful Dead—and the impact they had on my life.
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A teenage fascination with Jim Morrison and the Doors led to a 20-year obsession about uncovering everything in the history of the band and writing a book about it.
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With plans to soon embark upon a 1,000-year-old 700-mile walking pilgrimage in southeastern Japan, we spent a week doing a 60-mile reconnaissance of this classic ascetic Buddhist circuit.
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Reflections on a first big road trip around the mountains of the western U.S. that would spawn a decade of tireless mountain wandering.
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A trio of summers working as a volunteer forest fire lookout would set the tone for a love and appreciation for mountains that persists to this day.
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During the second half of our group pilgrimage, we encountered a giant snake during breakfast one morning, we visited several historically significant temples, and an unexpected illness reminded us of the uncertainty in all experience.
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In this episode, I answer listener questions about Buddhist “leadership,” the tenure of monks, and the practices of alms mendicants.
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For two summers, I lived in a haunted old house in coastal California. The good new is: I made friends with this spooky spirit. Believe it or not?!!
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This week, a group of nine gathered in Bangkok to embark upon an 11-day pilgrimage of sacred Buddhist sites around Thailand.
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In this episode, I respond to listener questions about the benefits of meditation and how to relax the mind through the practice of meditation.
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In this episode, I respond to listener questions about how a person becomes a Buddhist monk and the lives of monks in the Theravāda tradition of Buddhism.
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Traveling one of the most beautiful roads in the world, I made my way to Hue—the scene of the bloodiest conflicts of the Vietnam War, the final resting place of the beloved Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, and home to a Theravāda Buddhist forest monastery.
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By learning to see this life experience in terms of five aggregates—form, feeling, perception, mental states and consciousness—we can begin to unravel misunderstanding and uncover a great path to peace.
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While relaxing in the charming beach resort city of Da Nang, Vietnam, I found myself reflecting on desert adventures, the Manson Family, and on the profound spiritual allure of Death Valley.
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A gorgeous, mountainous resort city on the ocean, marble mountains covered in Buddhist pagodas and dotted with caves, a massive statue of elegant Guanyin, and hundreds of bonsais—this is fabulous Da Nang!
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