Rainforest Mind: Gifts, transactions and why it’s hard to stay grateful
Why are gifts so important? Is everything a gift? What’s the difference between a gift economy and a transaction economy? Why is it hard to stay grate...
Rainforest Mind with Kaspa Thompson
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Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist Kaspa Thompson explores the mind, religion, spirituality, wildness and ecology and the places where these intersect and overlap. Kaspa is ordained in Amida Shu, a Pureland Buddhist tradition, and is currently training in Embodied Relational therapy, which draws on body psychotherapy and process work. Early episodes included: 'Christianity and Buddhism', 'Unmet Needs' and 'Wildness'
Rainforest Mind: Shhh, listen. Being, doing and love.
I’m standing with my eyes closed in the middle of a busy street and listening. Why? And what can I learn from that experience? I talk about the false ...
Rainforest Mind: Lessons from my puppy
A few weeks ago we got a puppy! Wow – what a whirlwind the last month has been. Moments of sheer joy, and moments of fraught overwhelm. As one book Sa...
Rainforest Mind: Boundlessness with James Ford Roshi
What a great conversation. James and I spoke about the Unitarian Universalist movement, form and emptiness in Zen, boundlessness, spiritual fluidity a...
Buddhist Psychology, Climate Change and Spiritual Encounters
I’m talking to my Buddhist teacher Dharmavidya David Brazier. We talk about Buddhist Psychology: what does it mean, and how does Buddhist therapy work...
Going to Wild Places
How can we support healing in people, and in the planet? To help answer that question I’m talking about the importance of going outside, and what diff...
Rainforest Mind: Engaged Buddhism with Ayya Yeshe
In this episode I’m in conversation with Ven. Ayya Yeshe, about her socially engaged Buddhist work. What led her to social engagement? How does helpin...
Rainforest Mind: Depression, My Companion
I'm talking about my experience of depression, and how it is to be a Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist and have the 'black dog' as a companion on t...
Rainforest Mind: A Nomadic life – in conversation with Jayne Johnson
In this episode I'm talking to Jayne Johnson about life in community, and about the nomadic life. Jayne got rid of most of her stuff, sold her flat an...
Rainforest Mind: To the divine mother, with Clark Strand and Perdita Finn
In this episode I'm talking to Clark Strand and Perdita Finn. We talk about Zen, about different kinds of practice groups, touched on the twelve steps...