The ZDoggMD Show

The Only True Compassion (w/ Tim Cliss)

I sat down with Tim Cliss to talk about how nobody's home, how there's no prize at the end of the "spiritual" search, and how compassion works a lot better once there's n

The end of seeking is NOT what you think

I got an email this morning with the subject: "I died and you helped. Thanks." 😳 Here's the resulting YouTube LIVE discussion! Topics covered: Reading an email from a

Beliefs are tricky...

The sense of self may die, but these termites eating my house are still VERY much alive 😉 My recent livestream on TikTok. Some of the topics touched on: Beliefs as an e

There's no bypassing life, like, EVER

A live YouTube conversation about dropping our oldest child off for college, ending with an overpriced bottle of hotel Jim Beam drunk out of plastic cups by a Homewood Su

Alone, Together

Back from Japan to talk about being "alone together," why the "loneliness epidemic" is something engineered by the "me", and how bliss, grief, Fauci, and a three-dollar v

Moral Injury, Health 4.0, and the End of "You"

A live Q+A wandering through our Sunday zoom meeting with the awakening group, to Jesus Christ Superstar, to the death of "ZDoggMD" as an identity, through moral injury,

Liberation Is The End Of The Need For Liberation | From TikTok LIVE

I tell ya, there's something about these ephemeral TikTok live conversations that just gets this Zubin character all lit up 🔥 Here's a recording just for y'all who listen

Separation is Suffering, But THIS is What's Longed For (w/Zabi)

A two-hour conversation with a fellow "Z" that's for no one and goes exactly nowhere. Perfect! 😅 We talk about addiction as hole-filling, and the hole that can never be

Where'd My Inner Critic Go? | TikTok Zen LIVE

No subject, no object, just phenomena arising. From my TikTok live on consciousness, hope, meaning, the freefall of no belief, and what it's like when the self-critical v

Burnout, Addiction,and the Nuclear Reactor of Unworthiness (w/Dr. Rishi Menon)

One phone call with cardiologist and recovering alcoholic Rishi Menon and BOOM: we're instant Stepbrothers 😂 We dive into failing med school, 20 years of proving worthine

How Do I Live vs. WHAT AM I? | Tuesday Zen, LIVE

There's really only two questions. Exploring the first can lead to a more comfy prison cell, and REALIZING the second shows there never was a prison cell at all. Both are

When "You" Drop Away, Only Trust Remains

"You" can never really trust this moment. And yet THIS, here, now, IS pure trust itself. A Friday Zen Live on the unconditional acceptance of what is, why the separate se

Every Rose Has Its Thorn (Why Poison Was Basically The Buddha)

What goes up must come down, and for the spiritual seeker, that pendulation is one of the most specific and painful flavors of suffering there is. This Friday Zen LIVE fr

The Mind Can Be A Real Bastard | Friday Zen, LIVE

My baby is now at senior prom, I got a splitting headache, and somehow this is the perfect moment to talk about no-thing-ness. A Friday Zen YouTube live (4/24/26) on retr

All That Seeking Just To End Up HERE | Monday Zen, LIVE

Nina chose Vassar — and that news kicks off a wide-ranging Monday Zen live that covers a lot of ground. We start with the "spiritual journey" in full: from burning out as

Hogwarts vs. The Hard Knock Life? Our College Tour Story!

Just got back from spring break touring colleges with my oldest ZPupp (yeah, wasn't she just a frickin' BABY yesterday?). Rochester, Vassar, and NYU. This episode is the

Everything Seems Fine, And Yet... | April Fools Zen, LIVE

From BTS documentaries to grieving your own college experience through your kid's eyes, life keeps surfacing exactly what needs to be seen. An April Fools live conversati

Crashing through every branch on the Tree of Belief | Saturday Zen, LIVE

This is just DUMB SIMPLE...so much so that the mind that always wants to know, always wants to make sense, simply won't believe it. From 3am despair during college admiss

The Imaginarium | Monday Zen, LIVE

Nothing arrives. Nothing persists. And you were never behind. Monday Zen Live, original YouTube conversation here. 0:00 Welcome & The Imaginarium — Why the World Is a St

No Thought or Belief Can Touch What IS | Wednesday Zen LIVE

Why every concept, belief, and story falls utterly short of what's actually HERE. From YouTube LIVE. 0:00 Welcome & The Imaginarium We Live In 0:48 No Thought or Belief