Dharma Knights

Part 3: Therapy and coaching can be wonderfully transformative frameworks to help people enrich and change their lives, but the tools learned in these frameworks are intended for someone to improve t…

Part 1: Therapy and coaching can be wonderfully transformative frameworks to help people enrich and change their lives, but the tools learned in these frameworks are intended for someone to improve t…

Part 1: Therapy and coaching can be wonderfully transformative frameworks to help people enrich and change their lives, but the tools learned in these frameworks are intended for someone to improve t…

When we say that people are responsible for their own feelings, are we also saying that people choose all the feelings they feel? Absolutely not!  We can cultivate feelings and shape our thoughts in …

Matt Murphy here.  I've been on a long break from making podcast content, largely due to taking on a management role at a job for a big company.  But, that's been on a steady maintenance roll for a w…

Here's an overview and summary of the Bhagavad Gita, seventh chapter. This is audio taken from course materials Matt (the host) has published elsewhere.

Here's an overview and summary of the Bhagavad Gita, fifth chapter. This is audio taken from course materials Matt (the host) has published elsewhere.

Here's an overview and summary of the Bhagavad Gita, fourth chapter. This is audio taken from course materials Matt (the host) has published elsewhere.

Here's an overview and summary of the Bhagavad Gita, third chapter. This is audio taken from course materials Matt (the host) has published elsewhere.

Here's an overview and summary of the Bhagavad Gita, second chapter.  This is audio taken from course materials Matt (the host) has published elsewhere.

Should yoga philosophy teachers be perfect yogic saints?  Should they be flawless (or act like it, anyway)? Or should they own their flaws?  And is the Yogic philosophy the only lens and spiritual to…

What biographical details can help one reconnect with powerful creativity?  What parts of daily life, what investment in disciplined activities, and what essential relationships or prospects allow us…

Shame is a bad and toxic emotion to be avoided... right?  Or is there something else to shame, which we evolved for a reason? Can we realign a sense of shame as a useful tool that helps our aim, or i…

Social Media has contributed (among other things) a new widespread use of terms to describe others as "toxic", but what does this ultimately mean for personal responsibility and expansion of one's ow…

In spiritual circles, we often encounter expressions that put material things and spiritual essences at odds... but is it really that simple?  Above and beyond the fact that material currency and obj…

Have you ever experienced major life-changes, which made you re-arrange (or temporarily pause) some of the largest experiential puzzle pieces of yourself?  How does one manage the transition, or cons…

Yoga is supposed to be something one takes off the mat, and I try my best do Karma Yoga at my IT job.  It requires more empathy than is generally credited to those in my field, but that differentiati…