Rainforest Mind with Kaspa Thompson
Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist Kaspa Thompson explores the mind, spirituality, wildness and ecology and the places where they intersect and overlap.
Kaspa is ordained in Amida Shu, a Pureland Buddhist tradition. He recently qualified in Wild Therapy.
Early episodes included: 'Christianity and Buddhism', 'Unmet Needs' and 'Wildness'
- Update frequency
- every 23 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 10
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2020
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 grateful? Today’s episode was partly inspired by Robin…
00:30:51 |
Sat 15 Feb 2020
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 opposites of being and doing, and why I prefer lo…
00:25:15 |
Tue 28 Jan 2020
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 Satya was reading put it, there is the honeymoon pe…
00:26:06 |
Tue 07 May 2019
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 and more. James is a Zen Buddhist teacher and part…
00:51:07 |
Thu 21 Mar 2019
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? We talk about how encountering ‘awakened’ peopl…
00:54:28 |
Tue 26 Feb 2019
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 different kind of outside spaces can teach us. I talk…
00:23:28 |
Wed 13 Feb 2019
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 helping fit with Buddhist practice? She talks about how…
00:34:40 |
Wed 12 Dec 2018
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 the path
00:17:08 |
Tue 04 Dec 2018
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 and now lives nomadically.
Why leave the househol…
00:46:12 |
Wed 28 Nov 2018
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, talked about the importance of trees and I hear…
00:45:10 |
Wed 14 Nov 2018
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