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80:33

Talking with Lee Carlson: Author of A Single...

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2025/11/17

Send us a textFrom journalist and internationally recognized author Lee Carlson comes a life-changing memoir about our journey to seek meaning and the personal relationships we build along the way.A Single Excellent Night weaves together awakening experiences and pivotal realizations from the first four years of a 15-year apprenticeship Lee Carlson spent with Peter Matthiessen. The relationship between these two men, Zen teacher/student, writer mentor/mentee, trusted confidants and friends, unfolds

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When Meditation Retreats Go Wrong: Suicide,...

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2025/06/02

Send us a text *trigger warning: Suicide Jaqui was a young, 22 year old free-spirited young woman who loved to plant trees and was a part of a tree-planting community. She was an artist, a tattoo artist and an adventurer. Her dad had no longer needed a contractor van so she renovated it into a traveling van and went exploring. Jaqui loved meditating and had been trying to get into a 10 day Goenka meditation retreat for awhile and when her name came up on the list to be able to g...

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Kellie Schorr Talks Writing, Publishing and Her...

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2025/05/05

Send us a text Kellie Schorr has not only written for The Tattooed Buddha since 2018, she has been publishing as a ghost writer for the romantic suspense genre for several years penning commissioned novels. She is a Buddhist yogi in the Tibetan tradition and worked as a prevention specialist in the field of HIV and AIDS. She said she has always been a writer. She talks about her journey as a professional writer and how it can take many, many submissions to get published. We also talk ab...

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Untitled EpisodeHow Buddhists Can Be Activists and...

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2025/04/07

Send us a text Today we had a long term friend and former TTB board member, Daniel Scharpenburg on our podcast! Daniel has written a lot for The Tattooed Buddha as well as many other Buddhist magazines. He has worked for the IRS for 16 years now and he became a Union Steward in 2018 and during the COVID pandemic in 2020 he was elected as the first Vice President of his union. He has really enjoyed being a leader and activist during this time and is taking those leadership skills as first Vi...

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Meeting Myozan Ian Kilroy: Author of Do Not Try to...

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2025/02/12

Send us a text Do Not Try to Become a Buddha is a collection of short essays, Irish Soto Zen priest Myozan Ian Kilroy describes how he came to practice Zen, introduces some basics of Zen philosophy, and recalls the challenges of establishing a Zen Buddhist community in Catholic-dominated Ireland. A former journalist, Rev. Myozan’s clear yet entertaining storytelling style paints a clear picture of how Zen has adapted to the culture and traditions of Ireland. Rev. Myozan describes how he...

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55:43

Sitting Down with Ethan Nichtern about Confidence and...

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2024/09/20

Send us a textEthan Nichtern is the author of Confidence: Holding Your Seat through Life’s Eight Worldly Winds and several other titles, including the widely acclaimed The Road Home. A renowned contemporary Buddhist teacher and the host of The Road Home Podcast, Ethan teaches meditation and Buddhist psychology classes and retreats online via Dharma Moon and around the US. Kellie Schorr and Claire Parsons talk with Ethan about his new book and the concept of confidence and the idea of it being...

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46:22

Christopher Plowman, CEO of Insight Timer Talks...

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2024/09/11

Send us a textIf you meditate, chances are you may have heard of or have used Insight Timer.This app was brought to my attention because it wasn’t just a timer—it has classes, courses, talks and most especially it has a community. Our culture and society has become more and more digitalized. Socializing is done via messaging, texting and by using likes, dislikes and emojis. We meme, we snap, we gif, along with many other nouns that we now verb—all from our phones. It’s amazing and has connect...

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52:27

The Tattooed Buddha Meets with Claire Parsons:...

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2024/09/04

Send us a textClaire Parsons started writing for us here at The Tattooed Buddha with a column titled: The Bodhisattva of Power Suits, but she is not new to writing. She started her own blog called Brilliant Legal Mind and has also written two books: How to Be a Badass Lawyer, and Mommy Needs a Minute.Claire E. Parsons is a practicing lawyer in the Cincinnati, Ohio area, and the mom of two girls. She started meditating to manage stress and curb overthinking, but the practice changed her life. ...

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43:29

Talking with Guest Rod Meade Sperry, Editor of...

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2024/07/19

Rod and I have been friends on social media for awhile now but we have never interacted (as what happens often with social media and networking).In this podcast, we talk about how Rod found the Dharma, his journey to writing and eventually editing for both Wisdom Publications and then later, Lion’s Roar. Rod started his own independent magazine (zine) originally to highlight how Buddhism shows up in different areas of our culture.We talk about Canadian winters, mindfulness and anxiety, how di...

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Gary Sanders Ordains as a Temporary Monk

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2024/06/28

A few weeks ago Gary Sanders went on retreat and took temporary vows to be a monk.Gary walks us through some of the aspects of this process, such as wearing robes all of the time (including while he slept), eating only two meals a day, no dancing and singing and shaving his cherished beard. He explains why he chose to temporarily ordain, his experiences with retreats in the past and the fact that he likes to push himself. We discuss the concept of how retreats can be for the privileged, and

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Escaping from Jehovah's Witnesses through a Buddhist...

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2024/03/25

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Getting to Know Holly Herring

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2024/02/29

We meet with Holly Herring---one of our columnists for The Tattooed Buddha. We chat about Holly's work with those that are homeless, her journey to being a writer and the process of writing. We also learn about how Holly and Michelleanne Bradley met and became friends, which in turn led her to write for The Tattooed Buddha!Sit back and hear more about Holly and some of her stories.Beggars: The Right and Need to Choose There is Compassion in Harm Reduction {Trigger Warning}Want to see more of

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32:15

We Meet Boyan: Mindfulness Teacher

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2024/01/29

,Rebekah Reineke introduced us to Boyan, a mindfulness teacher originally from Bulgaria and currently living in London, UK.Boyan's website highlights various tools that aid in calming the mind and working toward practical applications of these tools. We discuss meditation, neurolinguistic programming and how it can help us achieve the goals we wish toward and physical forms of meditation like yoga, Tai Chi and boxing.Check out Boyan's website here and listen as we get to know him

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37:33

Dharma Talk: Talking with John Brehm about His Latest...

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2023/12/29

We had the opportunity to speak with John Brehm on our podcast awhile back and it was such a pleasure to have him as our guest again. John is an amazingly talented poet and has written and edited books on poetry in the past.We hope you enjoy listening to our dialogue with John and please check out his latest book, Dharma Talk published by Wisdom Publications!Other books by John Brehm: The Dharma of Poetry, The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness and Joy, No Day at the Beach, Help is On the Way, Sea

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Meeting Others (and Myself) with Compassion {Dharma...

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2023/08/30

Michelleanne Bradley talks about feeling the anxiety of traveling. Seeing people rush around the airport and the feelings that accompany that, she discusses how realizing the need to face people with kindness and compassion. This translates to everyday life, not only travel. What if we not only take care of others with this compassion and grace, but what if we also take care of ourselves with that same grace?

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Women in Buddhism {Part I}

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2023/02/08

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Women in Buddhism (Part I)

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2023/02/08

Today we have some guests on our podcast to discuss the role of women in Buddhism. Dana and Michelleanne talk with Mary Stancavage, Holly Herring and Ayya Yeshe. We share how we all came to practice, our history with this practice and belief in God, the types of Buddhism we all practice. Women play an integral role in Buddhism and we discuss this and the lack of teachings and access that nuns and lay women can face. More about Mary Stancavage here:

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50:43

Mark Van Buren: The Mental Fitness Trainer

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2021/10/26

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Mark Van Buren the Mental Fitness Trainer

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2021/10/26

What exactly is a mental fitness trainer? Author Mark Van Buren explains how he came to this point in his life to become a mindfulness instructor and what led him to writing A Fool's Guide to Actual Happiness and Your Life is Meditation (Wisdom Publications). We talk about the difference between "fluff" and real mindfulness in everyday life and applying it, what to do when you f*ck up and how to get back on the cushion again.Mark tells us about working an every day job and how a

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53:34

A Conversation with Dr. Jon Kolkin, Photographer and...

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2021/10/12

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