Buddhist Geeks

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 joined by both Charlie & Jared, as well as by Charlie's partner David Chapman–who has been becoming more involved in the project as of late–to explore what they've been up to this past year. In addition, they discuss some of the similarities between what is happening in Buddhist Geeks and with Evolving Ground, both of which are communities that are striving to approach things from a meta-systematic point of view.

Episode Links:

🔗 Evolving Ground

🔗 Evolving Ground Roles

🐥 Evolving Ground on Twitter

🔗 Meaningness

👤 Robert Kegan

🔗 Buddhist Geeks Network

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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 of navigating what is generally referred to as "the phenomenon." Both in his work as the host of the Artists & Aliens Podcast and as the convener of The Experiencer Group–a virtual learning community for people who've had anomalous experiences–Stuart is helping people confront and confer with the high strangeness of our shared reality.

Episode Links:

👤 Stuart Davis

👽 Artists & Aliens

🔗 The Experiencer Group

📖 A CE-5 Handbook: An Easy-To-Use Guide to Help You Contact Extraterrestrial Life

👤 Steven M. Greer

📰 Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program

📺 Navy pilots describe encounters with UFOs

📺 Ten Tools for Sovereignty

🖋 ET PRESENCE & THE FORFEITURE OF HUMAN SOVEREIGNTY by Stuart Davis

🌐 Buddhist Geeks Network

Additional Links from Stuart:

Kimberly Theresa Lafferty's Three Parter on Tantra, Non Human Entities, how transitory states become enduring stages of consciousness, how human contact with non-human entities impacts the attachment cycle in human development, the use of consorts in monastic Tantric tradition, and how we make meaning of the things that make no sense. A cautionary tale of what happens when you fail to make cakes for the spiritual denizens of your retreat cabin.

• Part One: https://youtu.be/Wz1juIwK5aU
• Part Two: https://youtu.be/amlajXh3viQ
• Part Three: https://youtu.be/a5v_I1sxFY8

And, magician Gordon White on how to protect your home spiritually by turning it into a Human Dwelling:

• Part One: https://youtu.be/sYpdE2lTabk
• Part Two: https://youtu.be/9HM_-_5xJAc

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In this dharma talk–taken from a Pragmatic Dharma Retreat–Kenneth Folk speaks about Bahiya, the best student in the history of the world, and about the worst student in the history of the world, none other than the Buddha himself.

At the end, Kenneth leads this 4-part practice:

1) Inventory - Ask yourself: is there any unpleasant tension in the body? "Yes, there's tension in my neck, forehead, arm pits, mid-back, right hip, etc."

2) Release tension consciously

3) Surrender fully to the experience

4) Releasing & surrendering are last ditch efforts to control. Things are as they are, "in the sensed is only the sensed."

Episode Links:

• Kenneth Folk
• Bahiya Sutta

Memorable Quotes:

"Mara doesn't get to have an opinion about that." – Kenneth Folk

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In this dharma teaching, given to a cohort of teachers-in-training, Vince F. Horn gives a broad strokes introduction to the 2nd Great Turning, or Iteration, of Buddhism, known as Mahayana Buddhism. Vince speaks about the 2nd Iteration's emphasis on emptiness (sunyata), the understanding of emptiness as interdependence, and the two equal wings of liberation: emptiness & compassion. Finally, he explores the primary ideal of the Mahayana tradition, the Bodhisattva.

Episode Links:

👤 Vince Fakhoury Horn

📄 Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma

👤 Judith Simmer-Brown

👤 Nāgārjuna

📄 Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (Root Verses on the Middle Way)

🔗 Bodhicitta

🔗 The 10 Fetters in Early Buddhism

👤 Śāriputra

Memorable Quotes:

"Compassion is the movement of emptiness." - Joseph Goldstein

"The alarming fact is that any realization of depth carries a terrible burden: those who are allowed to see are simultaneously saddled with the obligation to communicate that vision in no uncertain terms: that is the bargain. You were allowed to see the truth under the agreement that you would communicate it to others (that is the ultimate meaning of the bodhisattva vow). And therefore, if you have seen, you simply must speak out. Speak out with compassion, or speak out with angry wisdom, or speak out with skillful means, but speak out you must." – Ken Wilber

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Emily West Horn teaches that we can learn to apply both mindfulness & heartfulness toward liberating ourselves from the "trance of unworthiness." What do you most want to realize? Relax, and you will know.

Episode Links:

👤 Emily West Horn

📖 The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology by Jack Kornfield

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