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How Much is Too Much . . . News! Guarding the Sense Doors

2026/02/01

Send us a text The news nowadays can be overwhelming. Jon and Doug discuss ways we can practice with it, and some tips from Buddhism that can help us with navigating today's media landscape. Support the show Go to our website to leave a comment, buy us a coffee, or see further notes and links: https://digginthedharma.com/

Walking as Practice: The Buddhist Peace Walk

2026/01/25

Send us a text Jon and Doug discuss the Buddhist peace walk from Texas to DC that is underway now. How can it inspire us in our practice? Walk for Peace Blog Page Interested in taking a class with Jon? Check out: When the Sh*t Hits the Fan- Broken Heart Dharma Support the show Go to our website to leave a comment, buy us a coffee, or see further notes and links: https://digginthedharma.com/

Investigating Investigation

2026/01/18

Send us a text Jon and Doug discuss the role of "investigation" in our practice, one of the key factors of enlightenment or awakening. What are we actually investigating and how does this investigation lead provide energy and even joy? Interested in taking a class with Jon? Check out: When the Sh*t Hits the Fan- Broken Heart Dharma Support the show Go to our website to leave a comment, buy us a coffee, or see further notes and links: https://digginthedharma.com/

Taking Refuge in a New Year

2026/01/11

Send us a text Refuge is an evergreen topic in our practice. How can reorienting ourselves towards refuge help in the new year? Support the show Go to our website to leave a comment, buy us a coffee, or see further notes and links: https://digginthedharma.com/

Finding a Teacher, Relating to Teachers, Being a Teacher

2025/12/07

Send us a text In this episode, Jon and. Doug discuss different styles of teaching meditation and dharma; how to find a teacher, and what it means to be a teacher. Support the show Go to our website to leave a comment, buy us a coffee, or see further notes and links: https://digginthedharma.com/

Practicing Kindness with Guest Bodhipaksa

2025/11/23

Send us a text Jon and Doug discuss practicing kindness and elements of the other Brahmavihāras with their guest Bodhipakṣa, who has a new book out: The Heart’s Awakening: 108 Steps to a Life of Love. Support the show Go to our website to leave a comment, buy us a coffee, or see further notes and links: https://digginthedharma.com/

The Secular-Traditional Divide Examined: Four Guys Talk Dhamma | Roundtable with Clear Mountain Monastery

2025/11/09

Send us a text This week is a special episode, recorded thanks to Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho at Clear Mountain Monastery. Our conversation touched on themes Secular Buddhism vs Traditional Buddhism, the sacred, belief in rebirth, saddhā (faith), Mundane Right View vs Transcendent Right View, attachment to views, and much more! Clear Mountain Monastery will release a video of this discussion on their YouTube channel in December. Support the show Go to our website to leave a comment, buy us a coffee, or see further notes and links: https://digginthedharma.com/

Devas, Nagas, Yakkhas, a Halloween Episode

2025/11/02

Send us a text It's Halloween as Jon and Doug record their episode, so the discussion is about the supernatural beings in Buddhism, their history, how they reflect our own inner and outer states, and how we can practice with them. Support the show Go to our website to leave a comment, buy us a coffee, or see further notes and links: https://digginthedharma.com/

Getting Lost in Our Stories

2025/10/26

Send us a text Mental proliferation or "papañca" is one key way the mind works overtime to keep us agitated and stressed out. Jon and Doug discuss how we get lost in our stories, and how sometimes it's good to spend time figuring them out, and other times it's best to figure out how to let them go. Support the show Go to our website to leave a comment, buy us a coffee, or see further notes and links: https://digginthedharma.com/

Knowing Equanimity Without Falling Into Indifference

2025/09/28

Send us a text In many respects our practice aims towards equanimity. But if we force it, we may end up in indifference instead. Jon and Doug discuss these very different states and how our practice can help us navigate through them. Support the show Go to our website to leave a comment, buy us a coffee, or see further notes and links: https://digginthedharma.com/

Bringing Our Practice to the Hospital

2025/09/14

Send us a text Practice can often be most helpful when things in our life go sideways. Jon and Doug discuss practice in the context of doctors, dentists, and hospital visits. Support the show Go to our website to leave a comment, buy us a coffee, or see further notes and links: https://digginthedharma.com/

Approaching Meditation

2025/09/07

Send us a text What are we doing when we "meditate"? It seems like there are so many different styles and approaches. Jon and Doug discuss ways to frame and understand the practices. Support the show Go to our website to leave a comment, buy us a coffee, or see further notes and links: https://digginthedharma.com/

Many Paths, One Destination. . Working with Different Traditions

2025/07/20

Send us a text There are many different approaches to practice within Buddhism, not to mention outside of Buddhism. How can we work with these different approaches? What are some of their key differences? Doug's Dharma Video: Do All Religions Lead to the Same Goal? -- https://youtu.be/moGPUNfO8no With One Voice- a film about different spiritual traditions lead to the same place. Support the show Go to our website to leave a comment, buy us a coffee, or see further notes and links: https://digginthedharma.com/

The Dharma of Independence (Day)

2025/07/06

Send us a text With the US holiday of July 4th upon us, Jon and Doug discuss dependence, independence, what freedom really means, and how to practice towards it. Support the show Go to our website to leave a comment, buy us a coffee, or see further notes and links: https://digginthedharma.com/

Gladdening the Mind

2025/06/29

Send us a text The actual instruction to "gladden" the mind is sdd in the Anapanasati (Mindfulness of In and Out Breathing) Sutta, in the third tetrad about the Mind. What is the Buddha asking us to do here? Jon and Doug discuss what it means to gladden the mind in Buddhist practice, why it's important and how we can practice with this instruction. Support the show Go to our website to leave a comment, buy us a coffee, or see further notes and links: https://digginthedharma.com/

kasmo8 2024/01/22

Friendly and insightful Dharma chat

I always enjoy these conversations about how the various aspects of early Buddhism relate to modern life.

quif 2023/07/14

Really good listening

For this non-Buddhist neophyte listener, Doug and Jon’s discussions are worth time as good conversations, simply. The subject is obviously vast, and t...

M@y@206 2023/05/07

Great easy learning

Love the conversations

SMOOVEB79 2022/03/08

Great resource

Not only have I adopted some Buddhist practice over the past few years, I’ve also started consuming more books and dharma talks, etc., not only becaus...

elijahrlopez 2022/02/21

Cozy conversations about the dharma

Thoughtful and casual talks about the Dharma and Buddhist practice between two seasoned practitioners. Highly recommend you take a listen.

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