The ZDoggMD Show

Why Every Non-Duality Speaker Is Lying (w/Kat van Oudheusden)

True lies such as self-help is hopeless, "selfless leadership" is anything but, and spiritual bypass IS THE WHOLE POINT 🔥 The innocent, impersonal simplicity of THIS. Ka

Do you really need all this spiritual crap? | Thursday Zen, LIVE

Polish the turd of “me” long enough and it still won’t shine. A Thursday Zen rant for anyone who’s done everything "right" and is still seeking that enlightenment fix. F

ZPupp's Home From College! (LIVE)

I sent a kid off to college and a some sort of crazy adult came back 🫣😂 WARNING: contains spiritual ego collateral damage and one ANGRY cat named The Mitch! From our YouT

Ex-Hindu monk on the utter failure of spiritual seeking (w/ Tobias Ricardo)

Tobias Ricardo spent 15 years as a Hindu monk and had pretty much every spiritual experience on the menu: kundalini fireworks, blissed-out “I am” states, retreats, the wo

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