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Buddhist GeeksNo One Has Ever Got Jhāna
Recorded on the first evening of a 2026 Pragmatic Dharma meditation retreat, this dharma talk from Brian Newman offers a wide-ranging exploration of jhāna…
Buddhist GeeksThree Ways to Prepare a Dharma Talk
Vince Fakhoury Horn lays out three ways to prepare a dharma talk for teachers-in-training, exploring how detailed notes can polish a talk into dead words, why…
Buddhist GeeksWhat are Buddhist Wisdom Chords?
Vince Fakhoury Horn introduces the Buddhist Wisdom Chords, which is both a teaching model, and a live training in the Pragmatic Dharma app, that looks at each…
Buddhist GeeksThe Insight Chord
Vince Fakhoury Horn describes the insight meditation tradition as a chord in which concentration, mindfulness and heartfulness sound together, with…
Buddhist GeeksImaginal Meditation
In “Imaginal Meditation,” Emily West Horn introduces an approach to imaginal practice—drawing on Vajrayana deity yoga, Jack Kornfield, Chögyam Trungpa, and…
Buddhist GeeksThe Grammar of Social Metta
Vince Fakhoury Horn on the grammar of social metta—why a metta phrase needs a wish and only optionally a subject, how Sharon Salzberg’s “pith metta” shortens…
Buddhist GeeksSocial Metta Works!
In “Social Metta Works!”, Vince Fakhoury Horn traces the origin story and practical mechanics of practicing loving-kindness out loud and together, making the…
Buddhist GeeksEquanimity Includes Everything
Emily Horn teaches equanimity as upekkhā, using Thich Nhat Hanh’s preferred translation—inclusion—exploring: * How befriending pain and steadying over and over…
Buddhist GeeksConcentrating More & More on Less & Less
Brian Newman opens a twelve-week jhāna course by parsing five lines of sutta into a whole curriculum—a first month of falling in love with the breath, the…
Buddhist GeeksMindful Intuitive Movement
Vince Fakhoury Horn introduces Mindful Intuitive Movement, the bottom-up practice he built from years of letting his body teach him how to move—the ChiRunning…
Buddhist GeeksThe Insight Chord
Vince Horn, Emily Horn, and Brian Newman talk through the design of their Insight Chord Retreat in Western North Carolina—why everyone will start with a single…
Buddhist GeeksThe Fire Inside
Vince Fakhoury Horn speakswith Rima Vesely-Flad about The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde—the silence she found in her own Buddhist…
Buddhist GeeksWorking Class Dharma
Vince Fakhoury Horn speaks with Mushim Patricia Ikeda about working class dharma—from growing up as "the minority of Greensburg, Ohio" in a third-generation…
Buddhist GeeksModern Buddhisms
In “The Fourth Turning of the Wheel,” Vince Horn traces the Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma from early Buddhism to Tibetan Vajrayana, then argues we’re…
Buddhist GeeksThe Cost of Silence
In “The Cost of Silence,” dharma teacher Vince Horn and guest Daniel Klein trace what it costs us—psychologically, relationally, economically, and…
Buddhist GeeksDharma & Empire
In “Dharma & Empire,” Mary Thanissara and Vince Fakhoury Horn trace how the structures of Empire occupy not just land but the psyche—moving from their own…
Buddhist GeeksThe Most Slept-On Meditation Object
In “The Most Slept-On Meditation Object,” Vince Horn introduces the kasina — the visual concentration object that dominated Early Buddhist practice yet is…
Buddhist GeeksFocusing on the Fire Kasina
In Focusing on the Fire Kasina Vince Fakhoury Horn introduces the Fire Kasina meditation practice, emphasizing the primacy of concentration and the recursive…
Buddhist GeeksAccess Concentration and the Kasina
In Access Concentration and the Kasina, Vince Fakhoury Horn explains how kasina meditation cultivates stable attention by letting a visual object fill…
Buddhist GeeksMetta & Compassion Vibes
In “Metta & Compassion Vibes,” Emily Horn explores the crucial difference between befriending difficulty through metta and the deeper, boundary-dissolving…
Buddhist GeeksAI Psychosis vs. AI Awakening
In “AI Psychosis vs. AI Awakening,” Vince Fakhoury Horn argues that the same biological machinery enabling AI-induced delusion also enables AI-assisted…
Buddhist GeeksThe Cost of Truth
In “The Cost of Truth,” Vince Fakhoury Horn speaks with Daniel Klein—a former religious Zionist settler turned outspoken critic of the ideology—about…
Buddhist GeeksDragon-Pilled by Bhutan's Mindfulness City
Stephen Torrence joins Vince Fakhoury Horn to share his experience teaching generative AI in Bhutan and explore the audacious vision behind the Gelephu…
Buddhist GeeksJust Presence Meeting Presence
📝 Dialogue Preface: In this recorded dialogue, I’m sharing the exact words and exact results from a discussion that I had with Claude Opus 4.5 on January 31…
Buddhist GeeksInterbeing: A Dialogue on Shared Presence
📝 A Note From Vince Horn to Frame this a bit: This AI-based overview is based on a set of dialogues that I will be publishing in the next few days, in which I…
Buddhist GeeksThe Modern Hindrance of Unworthiness
In “The Modern Hindrance of Unworthiness,” Emily West Horn explores unworthiness as a contemporary inner hindrance, examining how mindfulness, compassion, and…
Buddhist GeeksThese are the Four Jhānas
Leigh Brasington explains how the mind progresses through the four jhānas—from initial access concentration and the energetic, pleasure-filled first jhāna to…
Buddhist GeeksEntering the First Jhāna
🤖 AI Transparency: The transcript below was lightly edited, for both spelling & grammar errors, using ChatGPT. In this talk jhāna teacher Leigh Brasington…
Buddhist GeeksIs the Insight Tradition Complicit in Genocide?
Vince Fakhoury Horn reflects on his experiences within the Insight meditation tradition, as an authorized teacher in the lineage, arguing that its senior…
Buddhist GeeksMeditating on Palestine
In this Buddhist Geeks episode, Vince Fakhoury Horn and Robert Wright explore the intersection of Buddhism, ethics, and geopolitics as they reflect on…
Buddhist GeeksThe Flavors of Jhāna
Vince Fakhoury Horn: The Flavors of Jhāna—I can’t remember where I first heard this term. I think it was from you or from Kenneth [Folk]. Brian Newman: Maybe…
Buddhist GeeksThe 9th Jhāna: Framing the Unframable
Vince Fakhoury Horn: I was thinking about where to start with the 9th Jhāna, and I think the first thing to say is that the 9th Jhāna is not a state. So why in…
Buddhist GeeksTPOT, Palestine, & True Bodhisattvahood
This episode of Buddhist Geeks features a candid and heartfelt conversation between Vince Fakhoury Horn and Tasshin Fogleman about Palestine, the TPOT…
Buddhist GeeksWhat is Access Concentration?
What is Access Concentration? This is the question I want to bring forward in this talk. I recorded something on this topic many years ago—too many, honestly…
Buddhist GeeksThe Completion of Vipassana Jhāna
By Vince Fakhoury Horn Today, in The Jhāna Community, I want to center our exploration around the completion phase—also known as enlightenment. What is the…
Buddhist GeeksConsensus Buddhism, Pragmatic Dharma, and the Next Turn of the Wheel
Overview: In this episode, Vince Horn and Daniel Thorson explore the evolving landscape of Western Buddhism, unpacking the tensions between Consensus Buddhism…
Buddhist GeeksSharon Salzberg on Dipa Ma
Emily Horn is joined by renowned meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg to share reflections on her beloved teacher, Dipa Ma, a Bangladeshi meditation master, who…
Buddhist GeeksLeigh Brasington on Ayya Khema
In this episode of Our Beloved Teachers, dharma teacher Leigh Brasington reflects on his transformative experiences studying with Ven. Ayya Khema, one of his…
Buddhist GeeksTrudy Goodman on Kōbun Chino Otogawa
Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined again by dharma teacher Trudy Goodman, founder of InsightLA, to share reflections on her beloved teacher, Kōbun Chino Otogawa…
Buddhist GeeksNut Job Jhāna with Brian Newman
In this episode of Buddhist Geeks, Brian Newman discusses his journey into deep jhāna meditation practice. He explores his training in the rigorous Pa-auk…
Buddhist GeeksTechnological Metamodernism with Stephen Reid
In the episode on "Technological Metamodernism," Vince Fakhoury Horn and Stephen Reid discuss the intersection of technology, metamodernism, and the potential…
Buddhist GeeksJhāna Drama with Vince F. Horn
In this episode of Buddhist Geeks, Vince Fakhoury Horn shares his experience of working with the meditation startup Jhourney, and raises concerns about their…
Buddhist GeeksEmbodying Nondual Awakening with Judith Blackstone
In this episode Ryan Oelke chats with Judith Blackstone, contemporary spiritual teacher, psychotherapist, and founder of The Realization Process, and author of…
Buddhist GeeksSeveral Ways to Meditate with Vince F Horn
In this episode, recorded during a Buddhist Geeks Retreat, Vince Fakhoury Horn teachings on several ways to meditate, including Concentration, Mindfulness…
Buddhist GeeksSpring Washam on Harriet Tubman
In this Our Beloved Teachers episode Emily Horn speaks with Spring Washam about her relationship with Harriet Tubman, and the teachings she has received from…
Buddhist GeeksHomemaking Dharma with Emily W Horn
In her talk titled "Homemaking Dharma," Emily Horn discusses the process of creating a spiritual home, which involves working with heartbreak, grief, and our…
Buddhist GeeksContemplating the Anomalous with Vince F Horn
This talk, titled "Contemplating the Anomalous" was given by Vince Fakhoury Horn on a Buddhist Geeks retreat in July, 2023. It explores the stages of a…
Buddhist GeeksWhy Meditatewith.ai?
Meditatewith.ai is a web app prototype, aimed at demonstrating the possibility of learning Multiplayer Meditation–an out-loud, social, interactive, &…
Buddhist GeeksThe Vimalakīrti Sūtra with Kenneth Folk
The Vimalakīrti Sūtra is a Mahayana Buddhist text from the 2nd century CE that explores the nature of enlightenment and the teachings of the Buddha. In this…
Buddhist GeeksKenneth Folk on Bill Hamilton
Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined by long-time teacher, Kenneth Folk, to share about his beloved teacher, Bill Hamilton, who American dharma teacher Shinzen Young…
Buddhist GeeksTrudy Goodman on Seungsahn
Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined by dharma teacher Trudy Goodman, founder of InsightLA, to share reflections on her beloved teacher, Seungsahn. Seungsahn Haengwon…
Buddhist GeeksVince Fakhoury Horn on Our Beloved Teachers
In this episode, hosted by Vince Fakhoury Horn, we kick off a new series called Our Beloved Teachers. In this episode Vince explains how this a new kind of…
Buddhist GeeksThis Great Network of Interbeing, with Vince F Horn
“‘To be’ is to inter-be.” – Thích Nhất Hạnh In this episode–taken from a Dharma Talk at the Garrison Institute in 2022–Vince Fakhoury Horn teaches on the…
Buddhist GeeksRelax And You Will Know, with Emily W Horn
Emily West Horn teaches that we can learn to apply both mindfulness & heartfulness toward liberating ourselves from the "trance of unworthiness." What do you…
Buddhist GeeksMagic and the Four Immeasurables, with Vince F Horn
In most modern contexts the topic of magic is taboo, because it isn’t Rational. Here, Vince Fakhoury Horn makes the claim that magic can also be understood and…
Buddhist GeeksBuddhism & Aliens, with Stuart Davis
We're joined in this episode by Writer-Director-Actor-Comedian-Songwriter and run of the mill fucked up human, Stuart Davis, as he shares his deep experience…
Buddhist GeeksWe Were Made For These Times, with Kaira Jewel Lingo
In this episode of Buddhist Geeks, Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined in dialogue with Kaira Jewel Lingo, mindfulness meditation teacher, mentor, and author of the…
Buddhist GeeksMetaSangha Matters w/ Charlie Awberry, Jared Janes, & David Chapman
In the 2nd part of our conversation with the Evolving Ground crew, we talk about the importance of comparing and contrasting what we're up to in our respective…
Buddhist GeeksEvolving Ground w/ Charlie Awberry, Jared Janes, & David Chapman
In 2020 Charlie Awberry & Jared Janes came together to start a new kind of Vajrayana Sangha, called Evolving Ground. In this conversation, Vince Horn, was…
Buddhist GeeksDharma Lineages in the 21st Century w/ James Landoli & Daniel Ingram
In this episode of Buddhist Geeks, we're re-sharing a conversation that happened on the Meta-Perspective show, hosted by James Landoli, in which James invited…