Episode Description: How do we create Buddhist startups? What types of products would a Buddhist startup create? In this video clip taken from the Buddhist Geeks Conference, Rohan Gunatillake shares with us his thoughts on why creating Buddhist startups is important and his personal experience building his mobile meditation app, buddhify. We’ll be exploring these [...]
Episode Description: Can 8 weeks of practice change how the brain processes sadness? In this video clip taken from the Buddhist Geeks Conference, Kelly McGonigal shares with us the power of mindfulness and offers research on the efficacy of mindfulness practice on depression. We’ll be exploring these topics and more at the Buddhist Geeks Conference, [...]
Episode Description: How do we integrate the heart principle with our technologies? In this video clip taken from the Buddhist Geeks Conference 2011, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche – a Buddhist teacher and an advocate of Western Buddhism – explores the intention of digital dharma. We’ll be exploring these topics and more at the Buddhist Geeks Conference, [...]
Episode Description: How do we upgrade the operating system of the mind? In this video clip taken from Lifehacks 2.0, Vincent Horn – Chief Geek of Buddhist Geeks – explores how we can upgrade the operating system of the mind, moving from a self-referential way of knowing ourselves and the world to a center-less and [...]
Episode Description: What is the most important thing when it comes to Buddhist practice? In this video clip taken from the Buddhist Geeks Conference 2011, Buddhist teacher Kenneth Folk discusses attention as a technology for awakening and offers a three-speed transmission to work with attention in daily life. Episode Links: Kenneth Folk Dharma Buddhist Geeks [...]
Episode Description: What is the difference between pain and suffering? In this video clip taken from the Buddhist Geeks Conference 2011, Kelly McGonigal explores the neuroscience of meditation to help us understand how practice shapes the mind, as well as fresh insights into concepts like mindfulness and suffering. Episode Links: The Center for Compassion and [...]
Episode Description: “Transcendenz offers to connect our everyday life to an invisible reality, the one of ideas, concepts and philosophical questionings which the world is full of but that our eyes cant’ see. By bringing together the concepts of augmented/altered reality, Brain Computer Interface (BCI) and social networks, Transcendenz offers to live immersive philosophical experiences.” [...]
Episode Description: What are the limitations of DIY and online dharma? In this video clip taken from the Buddhist Geeks Conference 2011, Ethan Nichtern – Buddhist teacher and founding director of the Interdependence Project – explores the limitations of online dharma, the meaning of Buddhism, and offers up a way to become a more sane [...]
Episode Description: In this episode, taken from the Buddhist Geeks Conference 2012, Buddhist innovator and mobile app maker Rohan Gunatillake talks about how he turned his personal practice into a popular mobile app. He then shares his ideas on how each of us can play a part in designing the next wave of apps which [...]
Episode Description: In this episode, taken from the Buddhist Geeks Conference 2012, Tami Simon, founder and publisher of Sounds True, explodes the taboo around charging for what is of ultimate value. What if commerce were seen as a positive engine supporting the dissemination of spiritual teachings versus something to be avoided or disdained? Episode Links: [...]
