Episodes

  • Powerful Participation in Life

    Powerful Participation in Life
    Dec 3 2021
    In this episode, we hear a clip from Renshin Lauren Lee's opening talk of our October Awakening Week, and then Dan interviews Ren to learn more about her training and her relationship to participation and experimentation.
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    16 mins
  • Cultivating Unreasonable Joy

    Cultivating Unreasonable Joy
    Dec 2 2021
    In this episode, we hear a clip from Soryu on finding deep joy in training, and then Dan interviews resident Joe Pucci on his embodiment of unreasonable joy. Their interview covers topics ranging from the joy Joe found on his first silent meditation retreat to MAPLE Fundamentals, our online course that Joe leads.
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    17 mins
  • Exploring the Stories We Inhabit

    Exploring the Stories We Inhabit
    Dec 2 2021
    In this episode, we hear a clip from Darren Silver, who guides the annual Vision Quests here at the Monastic Academy, on paying attention to the moment we enter into a story. Then, Dan interviews resident Alf to hear more about his experience going on the Vision Quest. Their interview covers topics ranging from intimacy with nature, time, and ritual.

    And a small correction: the technique Darren taught is the fox walk, not the foxtrot! The foxtrot is a type of dance move.
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    15 mins
  • One Step at a Time

    One Step at a Time
    Dec 1 2021
    In this episode, we hear a clip from a Sunday Sit talk by Xūramitra (Peter Park) following his walking pilgrimage from Lowell, VT to Burlington, and then Dan interviews Mitra to hear more about his pilgrimage. Their interview covers topics ranging from receiving generosity from others to more nuanced details of the pilgrimage.
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    12 mins
  • Living a Life Without Regrets

    Living a Life Without Regrets
    Nov 5 2021
    In this episode, we hear a clip from a talk by Soryu Forall about living a life without regrets, and then Dan interviews MAPLE resident Hōshin on the same subject. Their interview covers topics ranging from facing the consequences of your actions to experiencing physical pain.
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    12 mins
  • MAPLE Ethos #8: Freeing Leaders from their own Greed

    MAPLE Ethos #8: Freeing Leaders from their own Greed
    Mar 19 2020
    In this eighth talk on the ethos of the Monastic Academy, head teacher Soryu Forall discusses how we can only step into our power and serve the world to the extent that we have cut through the greed, hatred, and ignorance of our own minds.
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    27 mins
  • MAPLE Ethos #7: Joining the Ranks of Those Who Create History

    MAPLE Ethos #7: Joining the Ranks of Those Who Create History
    Mar 11 2020
    In this seventh talk on the ethos of the Monastic Academy, head teacher Soryu Forall discusses how understanding leadership as a function of community is essential to changing the direction of civilization.
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    25 mins
  • MAPLE Ethos #6: Changing the Mind on which our Civilization is Based

    MAPLE Ethos #6: Changing the Mind on which our Civilization is Based
    Mar 10 2020
    In this sixth talk on the ethos of the Monastic Academy, head teacher Soryu Forall discusses how society is maintained by intersubjective trust in shared fictions. The training at the Monastic Academy is the study of becoming trustworthy people in order to build a society based on a new story of trustworthy relationships.
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    36 mins