The Kind Heartfulness Podcast

Bringing Shantideva Home with Verena Pfeiffer

What happens when a text written a thousand years ago starts to change how you speak to a colleague, or how you meet your own mind at three in the morning? This episo

Breaking the Script: The Art of Awakening with Juri Henley-Cohn

How can ancient wisdom be lived in the middle of family, creative work, and the chaos of modern life? ​In this episode of The Kindheartfulness Podcast, we sit down wit

Mapping the Meditative Moment: Exploring Micro-phenomenology with Martijn van Beek

What actually happens in the "micro-moments" of your meditation? We often use broad terms like awareness or presence, but the fine-grained texture of our practice often r

Beyond the Brain: Amy Cohen Varela on Sense Making, Consciousness, Kindness, and the ESRI Legacy of Enaction.

What happens when we stop seeing the mind as a computer and start seeing it as an emergent, relational system? In this episode, Erric sits down with Amy Cohen Varela, Cha

A Home for Kindful Wisdom with Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche

Welcome to another episode of the Kind Heartfulness podcast, where we explore the path of living with an open heart and a wise mind. Today we have the distinct honor of w

Buddha and Bach with Cellist Barbara Bogatin

Today on the Kind Heartfulness Podcast, we're honored to welcome Barbara Bogatin — a world-class cellist and long-time practitioner of Buddhist meditation. A member of th

Dynamic Dharma: How Modern Meditators Are Shaping Buddhism with Dr. Ana Christina Lopes

In Tibetan Buddhism, lineage is everything — a sacred thread connecting teacher to student across generations. But what happens when modern meditators enter the mix? Anth

Buddhist Temptation: What Buddhism is offering to the world

Once again, we have the great honor to have Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche as our guest. In this episode, Rinpoche talks about why Buddhism is so appealing in today's world, the c

Neural Nirvana: The Neuroscience of Meditation and Spirituality

Our guest this month is the neuroscientist Dr. Clifford Saron, one of the world's leading scholars of the tangible effects of mediation. We have a free and wide-ranging c

Tukdam: The Practice of Awakening at the Moment of Death

In this episode, Dr. Tawni Tidwell shares the latest research into the meditative state of Tukdam. Tukdam is the practice of realizing mind's innermost essence at the mom

How to keep peace during holiday season

In this episode, host Erric Solomon is joined by Gomde team member and mental health professional Birgit Meiche to explore how to approach the holiday season with greater

AI mind: The Artificial Intelligence search for machine consciousness

AI is everywhere: it's the hottest technology, this year's fastest way to make money in the stock market, a new way to write, do research, make eye popping designs. But a

Thriving in the Light of Death — Caring for others and preparing yourself

We try not to think about death, often until it's we have no choice. A loved one begins to pass, or we receive a difficult diagnosis from the doctor. In the Buddhist teac

The Most Important Thing to Know - Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche

Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche unfolds the key to living, especially valuable in today's modern, chaotic, fast paced world. Erric begins by asking Rinpoche, "What is the most impo

Compassion can Help with Everything - Dr Erika Rosenberg

In Buddhist practice is based on compassion, and so there are a body of practices devoted to it. But what is compassion really? How do we know we have it? Compassion isn'

Sacred Substances: Superstition or Revelation?

Sometimes at Tibetan Buddhist teachings or Tantric Initiations, attendees receive an envelop filled with sacred substances. Today we are joined by Dr. James Gentry to dis

Buddha's Nuns Naughty or Nice - Dr. Annie Heckman

The Buddhist canon is filled with pithy teachings from and stories about Buddha. Many of the sutras, where Buddha gives profound answers to questions posed by his student

Navigating Modern Buddhism with Barry Boyce

In this Episode, Author, Writing Coach, Journalist, Mindfulness expert and Buddhist Meditator, Barry Boyce is our guest. He and Erric have a wide ranging conversation abo

Modern Insights into Ancient Wisdom with Erric Solomon

In this episode Sara Hindelang, a Buddhist practitioner and volunteer at Rangjung Yeshe Gomde is our host. She is interviewing Buddhist Yogi, Teacher and Author Erric Sol

On Rebirth with Andreas Doctor

Andreas Doctor is our guest in this episode. He and Erric have a conversation exploring what is really meant by reincarnation or, perhaps more precisely, rebirth in Buddh