Ep 2: Loud Zen with Dr. Bob Kohl

07/10/23 • 107 min

Dr. Kohl is an osteopathic physician, radiation oncologist, Zen teacher (aka Dae Do Soen Sa), yoga instructor and alternative medicine practitioner. He has been developing a healing modality called Selfunwinding for greater than 7 years, based on the work of John Barnes and others. Bob defines his Selfunwinding practice in these terms:

"By reconnecting into our sensations and feelings, and beginning to allow the the body to move, release, and reintegrate from our hidden and fragmented patterns we are startled awake into the experience of functioning more within the whole of our being."

We discuss his multiple roles as a healer and teacher and how he has bridged these many worlds, as well as issues of energy and movement that may be encountered during meditation that are often not discussed widely in Zen meditation circles and what they might signify, and what to do with them.

Dr. Kohl's Selfunwinding site: https://selfunwinding.com/

Furnace Mountain Zen Center: https://www.furnacemountainzen.org/

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Dr. Kohl's Selfunwinding site: https://selfunwinding.com/

Furnace Mountain Zen Center: https://www.furnacemountainzen.org/

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I catch up with Curt, a long-time comrade from the Zen trenches. We discuss what it's like to be a Zen Master, what the responsibilities of being on the path mean vis-a-vis social action and politics, especially for those on the revolutionary Left, and whether Buddhism can accurately be described as a nonviolent religion.

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Ep 3: Matt Christman on potatoes, pringles and praxis

Matt Christman is a co-founder and co-host of the podcast Chapo Trap House, a mix of political comedy and straight up journalism that skewers mainstream politics from a raucous Left perspective. Matt is also a history podcaster, having co-hosted both the Hell of Presidents and Hell on Earth podcasts, and is a co-author of New York Times bestseller The Chapo Guide to Revolution. He’s also a regular vlogger on Twitch, among many other projects.

Ben and Matt discuss Matt’s spiritual awakening during the 2020 Covid lockdown, and what might be required of our sense of self and our spirituality for revolutionary social change to occur that would benefit the many and preserve human life in a sustainable way.

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