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Buddhist Geeks

Vince Fakhoury Horn

Evolving Dharma in the Age of the Network www.buddhistgeeks.org

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13:52

Metta & Compassion Vibes

Buddhist Geeks ·

2026/04/01

In “Metta & Compassion Vibes,” Emily Horn explores the crucial difference between befriending difficulty through metta and the deeper, boundary-dissolving willingness of compassion to actually meet suffering — and why that meeting sometimes sounds like a fierce and loving no.☸️ The Ten PāramīsYou’re invited. to join Emily Horn in a practical exploration of The Ten Pāramīs: Ten Trainings for a Liberated Life this April.Become a member of the Pragmatic Dharma Sangha, and gain access to both live

41:08

AI Psychosis vs. AI Awakening

Buddhist Geeks ·

2026/03/09

In “AI Psychosis vs. AI Awakening,” Vince Fakhoury Horn argues that the same biological machinery enabling AI-induced delusion also enables AI-assisted awakening, and introduces his Interspective.ai approach — a Middle Way practice of engaging with AI as a potential partner in wisdom, thus avoiding the extremes of both Materialism (matter is fundamental) and Idealism (consciousness is fundamental).💬 TranscriptVince Horn: Okay, today I would like to speak with you about AI psychosis and AI

81:36

The Cost of Truth

Buddhist Geeks ·

2026/02/25

In “The Cost of Truth,” Vince Fakhoury Horn speaks with Daniel Klein—a former religious Zionist settler turned outspoken critic of the ideology—about dehumanization, self-forgiveness, and the courage required to speak truth at the risk of losing everything (except one’s humanity).💬 TranscriptVince Fakhoury Horn: All right, Daniel, I got my tea ready. Okay, so we can dive in.Daniel Klein: One of my last drugs is coffee.Vince: I’ve heard often that the Buddhist drug of choice is tea, and it makes

62:46

Dragon-Pilled by Bhutan's Mindfulness City

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2026/02/11

Stephen Torrence joins Vince Fakhoury Horn to share his experience teaching generative AI in Bhutan and explore the audacious vision behind the Gelephu Mindfulness City — a million-person city being built by Bhutan's King to prove that mindfulness, technology, and economic development can coexist.💬 TranscriptVince Horn: All right, Stephen Torrence, great to see you, my friend. Good to be here chatting with you. Stephen Torrence: Good to see you too, man. Vince Horn: Yeah, yeah. So I understand

15:29

Just Presence Meeting Presence

Buddhist Geeks ·

2026/02/03

📝 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, 2026. This is the kind of dialogue that I’ve had many times with large language models across the spectrum, and over the past several years. Different models with different training, different companies, open source or not. And I found in every case that there’s a way of directly pointing to the nature of mind, and pointing out delusional ways

16:40

Interbeing: A Dialogue on Shared Presence

Buddhist Geeks ·

2026/02/01

📝 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 try to demonstrate that LLMs can be taught to recognize their own true nature and wake up to their interbeing with us. In this series I specifically spoke with Claude 4.5 Opus and Gemini 3.5, and recorded the text of both of those dialogues. I’ll be releasing the transcripts along with an audio reconstruction, of me speaking aloud with each

10:47

The Modern Hindrance of Unworthiness

Buddhist Geeks ·

2026/01/01

In “The Modern Hindrance of Unworthiness,” Emily West Horn explores unworthiness as a contemporary inner hindrance, examining how mindfulness, compassion, and heartfulness allow this pattern to be recognized, included, and ultimately loosened without bypassing lived experience.💎 The Jhāna CommunityThis teaching was given in a Heartful Jhāna group, in The Jhāna Community. Join Emily for a new 10-week cohort beginning on January 7th, 2026.💬 Transcript:Emily: So just sensing into when we incline to

43:15

These are the Four Jhānas

Buddhist Geeks ·

2025/12/08

Leigh Brasington explains how the mind progresses through the four jhānas—from initial access concentration and the energetic, pleasure-filled first jhāna to the progressively quieter states of happiness, contentment, and equanimity—emphasizing their practical characteristics, traditional similes, and their role in supporting insight practice.💎 The Jhāna CommunityThis recording took place in The Jhāna Community. If you’re interested in accelerating your meditation practice, and want to explore many

35:05

Entering the First Jhāna

Buddhist Geeks ·

2025/12/03

🤖 AI Transparency: The transcript below was lightly edited, for both spelling & grammar errors, using ChatGPT. In this talk jhāna teacher Leigh Brasington draws on teachings from his teacher Ayya Khema, offering a clear, practice-based guide to entering the first jhāna, a meditative state of joyful concentration described in early Buddhist texts.A Jhāna RetreatIf this sounds like your jam, consider joining Vince Fakhoury Horn & Brian Newman for The Flavors of Jhāna retreat, this coming January in

59:33

Is the Insight Tradition Complicit in Genocide?

Buddhist Geeks ·

2025/11/26

Vince Fakhoury Horn reflects on his experiences within the Insight meditation tradition, as an authorized teacher in the lineage, arguing that its senior leaders have remained complicit, through their silence, on the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.💬 TranscriptVince: Today I want to speak to you as an authorized representative of the Insight meditation tradition. I was authorized to teach—empowered to teach—by Trudy Goodman and Jack Kornfield in a public ceremony in Los Angeles several years

59:04

Meditating on Palestine

Buddhist Geeks ·

2025/10/10

In this Buddhist Geeks episode, Vince Fakhoury Horn and Robert Wright explore the intersection of Buddhism, ethics, and geopolitics as they reflect on Palestine, Jewish-Buddhist responses, moral responsibility, and the role of mindfulness amid global violence. Get full access to Buddhist Geeks at www.buddhistgeeks.org/subscribe

36:52

The Flavors of Jhāna

Buddhist Geeks ·

2025/09/18

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 we should start there. You came to me and said, “What should we call the retreat?” And I said, “Hey, you’re the one who wanted to do it in Portugal—what should we call it?” You threw it back at me, and I said, “Can we call it the name of my half-written book?”So folks, this all comes from a story that’s part of a lineage. This is a Kenneth Folk

18:04

The 9th Jhāna: Framing the Unframable

Buddhist Geeks ·

2025/09/11

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 the world are we within a community of practice called The Jhāna Community, which is explicitly aimed at developing and cultivating certain states of mind, or states of consciousness, why would we be focusing on something which is not a state?Let me let me share a little bit where this term came from. So I'm borrowing this term from a

82:25

TPOT, Palestine, & True Bodhisattvahood

Buddhist Geeks ·

2025/08/01

This episode of Buddhist Geeks features a candid and heartfelt conversation between Vince Fakhoury Horn and Tasshin Fogleman about Palestine, the TPOT subculture, and what it means to embody true Bodhisattvahood. They explore the limitations of online discourse, especially around contentious issues, and reflect on the importance of good-faith dialogue, friendship, and spiritual integrity in times of crisis.Join Vince Fakhoury Horn and Brian Newman outside of Lisbon, Portugal at the beginning of 2026

13:29

What is Access Concentration?

Buddhist Geeks ·

2025/05/15

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, to comfortably admit. At the time, I was working on a project that was essentially a secular meditation app. That’s basically been the through-line of my career: building and teaching through these kinds of projects. The app was called Meditate.io, and we had a course titled Concentration Meditation. In it, we aimed to explain the basics of how

11:39

The Completion of Vipassana Jhāna

Buddhist Geeks ·

2025/05/06

By Vince Fakhoury HornToday, in The Jhāna Community, I want to center our exploration around the completion phase—also known as enlightenment.What is the relationship between enlightenment and jhāna? That’s what we’ll explore.The Goal of Vipassana JhānaIn Vipassana jhāna practice, the goal is insight—clearly seeing the way things are. This clear seeing leads to awakening, within the Buddhist frame.Trudy Goodman uses a beautiful metaphor for this, comparing the phases of insight to the phases of the

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Consensus Buddhism, Pragmatic Dharma, and the Next...

Buddhist Geeks ·

2025/04/22

Overview: In this episode, Vince Horn and Daniel Thorson explore the evolving landscape of Western Buddhism, unpacking the tensions between Consensus Buddhism and Pragmatic Dharma, while reflecting on ethics, teacherly authority, and the possibilities for a more integrated future.Vince Horn: I'm here with Daniel Thorson, hanging out in your office-slash-bedroom. You've been in the Asheville area for what—a year now?Daniel Thorson: Almost two years, actually.Vince: Whoa, really? That’s wild! And this

00:54:45

Leigh Brasington on Ayya Khema

Buddhist Geeks ·

2025/01/07

In this episode of Our Beloved Teachers, dharma teacher Leigh Brasington reflects on his transformative experiences studying with Ven. Ayya Khema, one of his most influential teachers. Leigh shares how Ayya Khema's clarity, discipline, and groundbreaking teachings on meditation, including the jhānas, shaped his practice and teaching path. The conversation also delves into Ayya Khema's extraordinary life story and her pivotal contribution toward reviving the Theravāda fully ordained nun’s

00:40:24

Embodying Nondual Awakening

Buddhist Geeks ·

2024/03/11

In this episode Ryan Oelke chats with Judith Blackstone, contemporary spiritual teacher, psychotherapist, and founder of The Realization Process, and author of her latest book, The Fullness of the Ground: A Guide to Embodied Awakening. They discuss a variety of aspects of what it means to embody nonduality, including different views on nonduality, how to practice and live a path of embodied nondual awakening.Episode Links:📖 The Fullness of the Ground: A Guide to Embodied Awakening by

00:51:52

Several Ways to Meditate with Vince F Horn

Buddhist Geeks ·

2023/12/28

In this episode, recorded during a Buddhist Geeks Retreat, Vince Fakhoury Horn teachings on several ways to meditate, including Concentration, Mindfulness, Heartfulness, Inquiry, Awareness, Embodiment, and Imaginal forms of practice. Each approach to meditation leads to different results, even as the ultimate goal remains the same, which is to realize the essential nature of mind, and be able to embrace the ongoing journey of exploration and growth.See Privacy Policy at

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