Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck with David Nichtern
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David Nichtern, founder of Dharma Moon, is a senior Buddhist teacher who has been practicing and teaching meditation for over 40 years.
He was one of the initial American students of renowned meditation master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and studied closely with him soon after his arrival in the United States in 1970. He is also a business consultant with companies creating a variety of offerings integrating meditation in a larger health and well-being context – including Goldman Sachs, Journey Meditation, Creative Live, True Nature Meditation (Tokyo), Balanced Athlete, The Center for Health & Healing, Om Births, and Kobre & Kim law firm among others.
He has been featured in The New York Times, FOX News, Netflix's The Midnight Gospel, Huffington Post, The Buddhist Geeks podcast, Duncan Trussell Family Hour Podcast, Pete Holmes' You Made it Weird Podcast, and many others. David is the author of the critically acclaimed Awakening From the Daydream: Reimagining The Buddha’s Wheel of Life and his recently released Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck. He mentors individual students both in person and online, and leads meditation teacher training programs around the world.
David is also a multiple Grammy-nominated and Emmy award-winning musician. He has recorded and played with Stevie Wonder, Christopher Guest, Jerry Garcia, Lana Del Rey, Maria Muldaur, Paul Simon and many others. Among his many credits in records, film and TV, David wrote the classic song “Midnight at the Oasis” and has produced multiple records for and periodically tours with Grammy-nominated kirtan artist Krishna Das.
Creativity Spirituality & Making A Buck with David Nichtern highlights creative people who share a passion for integrating their livelihood with their personal well-being and spiritual life. David hosts in-depth conversations with artists, musicians, comedians, authors, and thought leaders about life, creative pursuits, meditation, and how to build a sustainable business doing what you love.
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Ep. 13 – Transforming Negative Karmas with Krishna Das
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06/19/20 • 82 min
Krishna Das joins David Nichtern for some chanting and chatting about transforming negative karmas, the path of surrender, and the connections between Hinduism and Buddhism.
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Ep. 46 – Joining Heaven and Earth
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08/18/23 • 33 min
David Nichtern explores how mindfulness meditation is the primary tool on our journey of joining Heaven and Earth, which are our highest aspirations and our day-to-day practicalities.
This episode is taken from one of David’s Dharma Moon Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training sessions. The Intro to Mindfulness and the Path of Meditation program, which serves as the foundation for the next Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training, begins on October 13th.
To learn more, register now for a free online talk, Teaching Mindfulness Meditation and the Role of the Teacher, with David Nichtern and Robert Thurman on Tuesday, August 22nd.
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In this episode, David explores:
- The classic paradigm of Heaven and Earth, our highest aspirations and our day-to-day practicalities, as a way to frame our journeys
- The role that humanity plays in this paradigm and what the path of the warrior truly means
- How mindfulness meditation is the primary tool we can use for joining Heaven and Earth and finding balance in our lives
“Earth is nothing but obstacles, actually, from the point of view of Heaven. It’s just a clump of obstacles. But from the point of view of joining Heaven and Earth, it’s a clump of obstacles that actually can be manifested as opportunities for joining Heaven and Earth.” – David Nichtern
About David Nichtern:
David Nichtern, founder of Dharma Moon, is a senior Buddhist teacher who has been practicing and teaching meditation for over 40 years. He was one of the initial American students of renowned meditation master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and studied closely with him soon after his arrival in the United States in 1970. He is also a business consultant with companies creating a variety of offerings integrating meditation in a larger health and well-being context. David is also a multiple Grammy-nominated and Emmy award-winning musician.
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Ep. 17 – The Authentic Colleague with Michael Carroll
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11/14/20 • 64 min
Ep. 52 – The Intersection of Love and Awareness with Rhonda V. Magee
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05/01/24 • 64 min
Highlighting the intersection between love and awareness, Rhonda V. Magee joins David to discuss real change in a culture of separation.
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This time on the CSM podcast, David and Rhonda converse about:
- Rhonda’s background and personal definition of love
- Real change through love, inspiration and a sense of connection
- The inter-being of mindfulness and metta
- The principle of loving everyone and telling the truth
- What happens when truth is met with resistance or denial
- Living in a time where we have constant reminders of fear and anger
- How our culture has reduced us and objectified us
- Intergenerational phenomena and walking through many phases of life
- What we leave behind for the next generation and what we can learn from youth
- Real and perceived differences
- Deepening our own well-being so that we can be there for others
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About Rhonda V. Magee:
Rhonda V. Magee is a Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco and a leading mindfulness teacher and practice innovator with a focus on applying mindfulness to the hardest challenges of our times. She is an internationally-recognized teacher, guide and mentor, focused on integrating mindfulness into higher education, law and social change work. A prolific author, she draws on law and legal history to weave storytelling, poetry, analysis and practices into inspiration for changing how we think, act and live better together in a rapidly changing world. Keep up with Rhonda on her website or on social media.
“I fully believe, for most of us, especially in the West, grounding in a quality of love and care as how we experience awareness is pretty important because we have so much healing to do. We’ve been so alienated from ourselves, each other, from the planet.” – Rhonda V. Magee
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Ep. 10 – Music & Meditation with Julian Lage
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03/14/20 • 58 min
Virtuoso guitarist and meditation practitioner Julian Lage joins David Nichtern for a conversation around creating a vision for what we have to offer the world and how we can hone our creativity with the fruits of meditative practice.
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Ep. 3 – Following The Dream with Pete Holmes
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10/09/19 • 64 min
Comedian, actor and writer Pete Holmes joins David for a conversation about maintaining balance while pursuing our dreams and navigating the road to success.
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Ep. 15 – Honoring Your Intuition with Danny Goldberg
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08/08/20 • 48 min
David Nichtern and Danny Goldberg talk about honoring your intuition in your work, what it really means to manage an artist, and setting up a spiritual practice that works for you.
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David's View: Mindfulness at Work
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09/01/21 • 18 min
Welcome back to David's View!
This is the third in a series of short episodes where David and producer Michael Kammers sit down to discuss ways that we can apply the principles and practices explored in the CSM podcast and book.
In this episode, David and Michael explore ways that we can bring a sense of sacred outlook into our work lives.
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Ep. 27 – Music Is My Dharma with Robben Ford
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11/13/21 • 63 min
Guitar legend, Robben Ford, joins David for a discussion spanning high-caliber music, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Buddhism, meditation, artistry, and creativity.
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Robben Ford is one of the premier electric guitarists today, particularly known for his blues playing, as well as his ability to be comfortable in a variety of musical contexts. A five-time Grammy nominee, he has played with artists as diverse as Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Witherspoon, Miles Davis, George Harrison, Phil Lesh, Bonnie Raitt, Michael McDonald, Bob Dylan, John Mayall, Greg Allman, John Scofield, Susan Tedeschi, Keb Mo, Larry Carlton, Mavis Staples, Brad Paisley, and many others. Check out his new solo album, Pure, and visit RobbenFordGuitarDojo.com for guitar courses, tour info, and more.
"Music is my Dharma, and the relationship to Buddhism has only made that more clear. Through all these years, the way that Dharma has helped me has basically been to create emotional balance." – Robben Ford
David recently launched Dharma Moon – a website offering Workshops/Courses, Teacher Trainings, Mentoring & more, at www.DharmaMoon.com
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Ep. 42 – Mindful Homes with Anjie Cho
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05/17/23 • 77 min
Author, architect, and feng shui expert, Anjie Cho, joins David Nichtern to inspire listeners to revitalize their homes and their lives through the practice of mindful design.
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In this episode, David and Anjie dive into:
Redefining your relationship with your home through feng shui and Buddhist teachings
Shifting the qi (life force energy) in your home to support your spiritual practices and creative endeavors
How our inner environments are translated to our external environments
The feng shui map, or Bagua
House plants as teachers for different phases of our lives
“The heart of this book is asking people to not look at feng shui as a checklist of things to do and things to fix in your life, but to open up to become more friendly with your home, to start to engage with your home, and to see your home as a living being that can be your ally in your healing process and teach you a lot.” – Anjie Cho
About Anjie Cho:
Anjie Cho is a creator of holistic spaces, specifically focused on designing architectural interiors, and teaching feng shui and meditation. She is the author of Mindful Homes [CICO Books 2023] and Holistic Spaces [CICO Books 2018]. Since 1999, she has been designing beautiful and nourishing spaces (inner and outer) with balance and harmony, informed by the ancient practice of feng shui and meditation. Her focus is to create nurturing and supportive environments, tailoring her practice to each individual’s specific needs.
Anjie is a New York State Registered Architect, a graduate in Architecture from the College of Environmental Design at the University of California at Berkeley, LEED Accredited Professional, and certified feng shui consultant from the BTB Feng Shui Masters Training Program. She has trained as a meditation teacher and in shamanic healing modalities.
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Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck with David Nichtern currently has 75 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Spirituality, Creativity, Buddhism, Music, Money, Religion & Spirituality, Podcasts and Business.
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The episode title 'Ep. 13 – Transforming Negative Karmas with Krishna Das' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck with David Nichtern is 54 minutes.
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Episodes of Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck with David Nichtern are typically released every 20 days, 22 hours.
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The first episode of Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck with David Nichtern was released on Aug 23, 2019.
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