Down with the Dharma
Rev. Dr. John Freese (Dhammabodhi) and friends discuss all things Dharma.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 77 minutes
- Episodes
- 118
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Episode 34 ABCC 2020 Divination Panel
Speaker: Erin Smith
Topic: Tarot, divination in general, and Buddhist practice
Panelists: John Freese, Elaine Dove, Lourdes Arguelles, Jing Jing Zhu
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Episode 33 ABCC 2020 Buddhist Addiction Counseling
Round table discussion on the intersection of addiction recovery, Buddhist practice, and addiction counseling.
Panel facilitator: Tom Moritz.
Panelists: Erin Smith, Corey Swartsel, Caroline Netsche…
Episode 32 ABCC 2020 Buddhist Spiritual Direction Panel
Talk: Rev. Dr. Frank Rogers on the practice of spiritual direction from a Christian Perspective. Frank is a theology professor in the spiritual formation department at the Claremont School of Theolog…
Episode 31 ABCC 2020 Plenary Talk by Bhante Sumitta
Bhante Sumita discusses how Buddhism can respond to suffering on a societal level based on questions from the audience.
Bhante Sumitta is a Bhikkhu (fully ordained monk) in the Theravada tradition of…
Episode 30 ABCC 2020 Buddhist Organizing/Activism and Contemplative Organizing/Activism
Round table discussion with: Meiver De La Cruz, Brother Fulfillment, Jo-Ann Rosen, Melanie Gin, and John Freese
The main topic is collective body-centered approaches to healing trauma using Community…
Episode 29 ABCC 2020 Buddhist Chaplaincy Panel
This is the second talk and panel discussion of the ABCC 2020 Conference.
Speaker: Lama Justin Vonbujdoss
Topic: Buddhist Prison Chaplaincy and Abolition
Panelists: Stephanie Barnes, Nathan Michon, …
Episode 28 ABCC 2020 Buddhist Counseling/Buddhist-Informed Psychotherapy Panel
This is the first talk and panel discussion of the Association of Buddhist Care and Counseling conference (July 25-27) 2020.
Speaker: Lourdes Argeulles
Title: "Migration, Fear, and Compassion-Focuse…
Episode 27: ABCC Series 7 Dr. Stephanie Mines
John interviews Dr. Stephanie Mines about her work in healing shock and trauma. Topics include somatic attunement, Buddhist practice, the energy medicine of Jin Shin Jyutsu, and the groundswell of Ea…
Episode 26 Kranti
Guest host and UWest psychology student Farah Shaikh interviews people from Kranti about the importance of practicing the fourth precept of mindful speech and deep listening. Kranti is a nonprofit or…
Episode 25 Buddhist Social Ethics
Joanna Paulino, a UWest student from John's class on Buddhist social ethics, talks about her interview with Jason Thomas. Jason is a former gang member and incarcerated person who now mentors youth t…
Episode 24 Questions to a Secular Buddhist/ Democratic Socialist
John interviews longtime socialist and labor organizer Dr. Mike Slott about Marxism, his career in the labor movement, his interest in secular Buddhism, his involvement with the Secular Buddhist Netw…
Episode 23 ABCC Series 6 Tim Desmond
John interviews Tim about dialogue-based mindfulness, psychotherapy, and peer counseling.
Tim Desmond is a psychotherapist, author, Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Antioch University New England, a…
Episode 21 ABCC Series 4 Nathan Jishin Michon
John talks with Reverend Dr. Nathan Jishin Michon about his research on the burgeoning field of Buddhist chaplaincy in Japan. Rev. Dr. Michon is a Shingon priest. He did his dissertation at the Gradu…
Episode 19 ABCC Series 2 Alan Cossitt
John and fellow UWest MDiv alumni Reverend Alan Cossitt discuss the idea of Buddhist socialism from an early Buddhist perspective. Alan is a healthcare chaplain in Oregon who lives on a houseboat wit…
Episode 17 ABCC Series 1 Rev. Dr. Monica Sanford
John talks Buddhist practical theology with Reverend Dr. Monica Sanford. Monica shares her experience as a university chaplain, her research on how Buddhist chaplains do "theological reflection," and…
Episode 13 Protestant Theology Infrastructure that Buddhists Could Draw From to Expand the Buddhist Job Market
Episode 8 Prison Dharma
