The Drunken Taoist Podcast #26

Episode 26 – Streetfighting Buddha and Empathy

The Drunken Taoist Podcast #26

The Drunken Taoist Podcast
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The “Rant of the Day”:

  • Reading people and empathy
  • Lama spit, the shining moon and a Tibetan monk’s enlightenment

 

The “I Have A Dream” Corner:

  • This month… I have no dream

 

The “Ask Bolelli” Corner:

  • Reacting to the people around us
  • Disorganized spirituality vs. organized religion: how institutions are the enemy of creativity and dogma’s best friend
  • Spirits. Beliefs are blind men musing about the nature of light
  • The dilemma of sweet people and MMA. How to develop an edge without losing tenderness. Balancing yin and yang

 

The “Iz Moment”:

  • Knockout farts and ants
  • Please put on your pretty dress and stop hitting me on the head with an elephant
  • Writing an autobiography entitled “Black and Proud”
  • You are the craziest freak I ever met in my life

 

The “Storytelling Moment”:

  • Siddhartha Gautama, harems, the Four Sights, on the quest for enlightenment, the dilemma of attachment
  • Weddings, holidays, first time having sex
  • It’s all up to you

 

Streetfighting Buddha and Empathy Oct. 14, 2013 / 1:35:30

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About Jeff

Jeffrey D. Hendricks is a two-time graduate from California State University at Long Beach with a Master of Arts in United States History. His main areas of historical interest are the cultural and intellectual aspects of Environmental history, Native American history, and the history of social and environmental justice movements in the United States. His Masters Thesis, "Constructing the Panopticon: Perceptions of Wilderness, Methods of Domination and the Colonization of Native America," was published in December, 2006, and it deals with how perceptions of wilderness influenced the colonization of North America. Other topics he has researched include the effects of colonization on the Tohono O'odham Nation of Southern Arizona, witchcraft persecutions in the Colonial US, and the Weather Underground - an anti-war organization active during the Vietnam War period. Jeffrey has worked with many organizations including the Save Ward Valley Coalition, Los Angeles and Long Beach Food Not Bombs, the O'odham Solidarity Project, and many others. He currently maintains this website - www.danielebolelli.com

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