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| Peter Levine and Somatic Experiencing | 06 Sep 2024 | 01:58:37 | |
| Judith Herman and Western Trauma Therapy | 30 Aug 2024 | 01:53:38 | |
| The Sacred Pipe by Black Elk, Benjamin Black Elk, and Joseph Epes Brown | 21 Jun 2024 | 01:18:00 | |
| Episode 28 ABCC 2020 Buddhist Counseling/Buddhist-Informed Psychotherapy Panel | 28 Jul 2020 | 01:54:32 | |
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-Focused Practices" Panelists: Harriet Wrye, Stephanie Mines, Elaine Dove, and Pamela Ayo Yetunde Facilitator: John Freese Links: Lourdes Arguelles https://www.cgu.edu/people/maria-de-lourdes-arguelles/ https://www.drikungkc.org/lopon-dorje-khandro Harriet Wrye https://www.ipa.world/IPA/en/Societies/societies_focus/los_angeles.aspx https://www.amazon.com/Pulling-Up-Stakes-Stepping-Freedom/dp/0983925526 Stephanie Mines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQOAxT8llto" (TED Talk on Guidance) https://youtu.be/D2RxzSTusKc (Stephanie Mines on Unprecedented Leadership) Elaine Dove Pamela Ayo Yetunde https://www.unitedseminary.edu/academics/faculty/pamela-ayo-yetunde/ Buddhist-Christian Dialogue, U.S. Law, and Womanist Theology for Transgender Spiritual Care (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom (Shambhala, 2020) https://www.shambhala.com/authors/a-f/pamela-ayo-yetunde.html | |||
| Episode 27: ABCC Series 7 Dr. Stephanie Mines | 01 Jul 2020 | 01:06:40 | |
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 Earth consciousness in response to global warming. Dr. Mines is the founder of the TARA Approach to heal shock and trauma and is the vision holder of Climate Change and Consciousness. | |||
| Episode 26 Kranti | 15 Jun 2020 | 00:50:07 | |
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 organization that empowers girls from Mumbai's red-light areas to become agents of social change and happiness. https://feminisminindia.com/2017/12/06/interview-robin-founder-kranti/ | |||
| Episode 25 Buddhist Social Ethics | 08 Jun 2020 | 00:14:38 | |
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 to help them stay out of gangs and free from addiction to drugs. Joanna talks about Jason's story using the teachings on the five precepts and an understanding of trauma. | |||
| Episode 24 Questions to a Secular Buddhist/ Democratic Socialist | 31 May 2020 | 01:31:02 | |
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 Network, and his Marxist Buddhist analysis of the obstacles we face in creating a more just and mindful society. Mike has been teaching as a Part-Time Lecturer in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers University since 2001. In addition to Introduction to Labor Studies, Mike has taught Collective Bargaining, American Unions and Politics, and the History of Labor and Work in the United States. Mike received a Master's in Labor and Industrial Relations and a Doctorate in the Social and Philosophical Foundation of Education at Rutgers. Mike has been an active participant in the labor movement for over 40 years. He has had experience in many areas of union activity, including negotiating contracts, presenting union grievances at arbitration hearings, organizing new members, and coordinating union educational programs. A long-time political and labor movement activist, Mike continues to explore the intersection between secular Buddhism and socially engaged Buddhism. He is a member and practice leader at New York Insight (NYI) in the USA and principal editor of the Secular Buddhist Network and its monthly newsletter, ‘Reimagining Community’. | |||
| Episode 23 ABCC Series 6 Tim Desmond | 24 May 2020 | 00:53:47 | |
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, and student of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Co-founder of Morning Sun Mindfulness Center, he lives in Alstead, NH, and teaches mindfulness and self-compassion practices audiences around the world. His publications include Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy (W.W.Norton, 2015), The Self-Compassion Skills Workbook (W.W.Norton, 2017), and How to Stay Human in a Fucked Up World (HarperOne, 2019). | |||
| Episode 21 ABCC Series 4 Nathan Jishin Michon | 10 May 2020 | 01:56:35 | |
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 Graduate Theological University in Berkeley CA. His research involved reading the works of, interviewing, and observing Buddhist chaplains in Japan responding to the unprecedented suffering caused by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. | |||
| Episode 19 ABCC Series 2 Alan Cossitt | 28 Apr 2020 | 01:02:20 | |
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 with his two dogs. His practice is based on the early Buddhist teachings on becoming. Book Mentioned: The Paradox of Becoming by Thanissaro Bhikkhu of Wat Metta in Valley Center CA. Ajhan Geoff is an eminent scholar monk in the Thai Forest Tradition. https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/paradoxofbecoming.pdf | |||
| Episode 17 ABCC Series 1 Rev. Dr. Monica Sanford | 20 Apr 2020 | 01:21:14 | |
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 what she envisions the Association of Buddhist Care and Counseling could look like. Monica and John both did their M.Div. at University of the West in LA. Monica earned her PhD in Practical Theology at The Claremont School of Theology. John is a PhD candidate in that program. Rev. Dr. Monica is the Assistant Director of Spiritual and Religious Life at the Rochester Institute of Technology. In addition to her chaplaincy work she is working on a textbook for Buddhist care and counseling and is a co-researcher on a Buddhist Ministry Working Group project to map out who are active Buddhist chaplains. | |||
| Episode 13 Protestant Theology Infrastructure that Buddhists Could Draw From to Expand the Buddhist Job Market | 13 Mar 2020 | 01:20:05 | |
John talks about the history of practical theology and Protestant theological infrastructure as a model that Buddhists could draw from to expand Buddhist theological education and training beyond chaplaincy into Buddhist care and counseling.
Link to paper John refers to in his talk.
https://www.academia.edu/42204772/Practical_Theology_Qualifying_Exam_By_John_Freese_for_Dr._Kathleen_Greider
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| Threefold Dharmic Methodology and The Four Modes of Knowledge Production as a Theoretical Framework | 14 Jun 2024 | 01:20:21 | |
| Episode 8 Prison Dharma | 02 Jan 2020 | 01:31:40 | |
UWest student Farah Shaikh interviews UWest students, alumni, and faculty that teach Buddhist philosophy and meditation in California State prisons via The Engaged Buddhist Alliance. The EBA is a nonprofit founded by Dr. Lewis Lancaster, John Freese, Venerable De Hong, and Margaret Meloni. The EBA teaches to over 200 students in over 8 state prisons in Southern California.
Sequence of Interviews
Chris Johnson: PhD Student
David from Homeboy Industries
Venerable Doctor De Hong: EBA founder and leader
Tom Moritz PhD: Adjunct Faculty
Venerable Sumitta: PhD Candidate
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| The Four Noble Truths | 17 Nov 2019 | 01:32:11 | |
John gives a Dharma talk on The Four Noble Truths from an early Buddhist perspective and from the perspective of Daoist internal alchemy.
Link to the notes and bibliography:
https://johnfreese.wordpress.com/2019/11/17/down-with-the-dharma-podcast-episode-5-the-four-noble-truths/
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| The Four Modes of Knowledge Production as a Theoretical Framework | 26 May 2024 | 00:46:31 | |
Rev. Dhammabodhi introduces his theoretical framework which includes the village shamanic, city-state yogic, clerical scholastic, and nation-state academic modes of knowledge production. | |||
| Setting the Record Straight on Certain Modern Traditions of Theravada Buddhism | 08 May 2024 | 01:56:02 | |
Rev. Dhammabodhi presents and overview of the Mahasi Sayadaw vipassana lineage, the Buddhist Publication Society, the Ledi Sayadaw vipassana lineage, and the Thai Forest Ajahn Mun monastic lineage. | |||
| Discourse on the Realized Ones from the Samyutta Nikaya | 21 Apr 2024 | 00:32:27 | |
SN 56.12 Tathagatasutta (Realized Ones) | |||
| Discourses on the Four Noble Truths from the Samyutta Nikaya | 11 Apr 2024 | 00:47:53 | |
SN 56.1
https://suttacentral.net/sn56.1/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin
SN 56.11
https://suttacentral.net/sn56.11/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin
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| Icchānaṅgalasutta from the Samyutta Nikaya | 24 Mar 2024 | 00:23:49 | |
Rev. Dhammabodhi and Upasaka Dustin discuss a discourse on the Buddha's meditation practice of mindfulness of breathing during the three month retreat. SN 56.11 | |||
| The One Thing Discourse on Mindfulness of Breathing from the Samyutta Nikaya | 03 Mar 2024 | 00:44:27 | |
SN 54.1 Ekadhammasutta (One Thing) | |||
| Discourse on Absorption and Discourse with Five Factors | 25 Feb 2024 | 00:42:25 | |
| Discourses on Right Effort, Five Powers, and Four Bases of Psychic Power from the Samyutta Nikaya | 04 Feb 2024 | 00:51:41 | |
SN 49.1 SN 50.1 SN 51.1 SN 51.22 | |||
| Paul Tillich Two Types of Philosophy of Religion | 23 Aug 2024 | 02:01:20 | |
| Simple Discourse and Second Analysis Discourse from the Linked Discourses on the Five Faculties | 28 Jan 2024 | 00:57:54 | |
| The In Ambapālī’s Mango Grove Discourse from the Satipatthanasamyutta | 21 Jan 2024 | 01:02:53 | |
Rev. Dhammabodhi and Upasaka Dustin discuss the early Buddhist teaching on establishing mindfulness (satipatthana) which provides the early Buddhist contemplative structure. That structure is the body, body sensation, the heart-mind, and the Dhamma as the teachings on the 12 links of dependent origination. | |||
| Skillfull Discourse and Corruptions Discourse from the Discourses on the Awakening Factors in the Samyutta Nikaya | 07 Jan 2024 | 00:44:58 | |
Rev. Dhammabodhi, Upasaka Dustin, and Brother Robert discuss two discourses from the Bojjhangasamyutta (Linked Discourses on the Awakening Factors) from the Samyutta Nikaya. SN 46:31 SN 46:33 | |||
| Discourses on the Eightfold Path from the Maggasamyutta | 17 Dec 2023 | 00:34:45 | |
Rev. Dhammabodhi and Upasaka Dustin discuss the following discourses from the Maggasamyutta SN 45:91 SN 45:175 SN 45:177 SN 45:178 SN 45:179 SN 45:180 | |||
| Ignorance Discourse and Analysis Discourse from the Discourses on the Eightfold Path in the Samyutta Nikaya | 10 Dec 2023 | 00:51:35 | |
SN 45:1 Ignorance Discourse (Avijjasutta) SN 45:8 Analysis Discourse (Vibhangasutta) | |||
| Spiritual Discourse from the Vedanasamyutta SN 36:31 | 03 Dec 2023 | 01:19:21 | |
Rev. Dhammabodhi and Upasaka Dustin discuss the Spiritual Discourse where the Buddha talks about three levels of body sensation, namely material, spiritual, and more spiritual. | |||
| The Abyss Discourse and the Arrow Discourse from the Discourses on Sensation in the Samyutta Nikaya | 26 Nov 2023 | 01:04:54 | |
Rev. Dhammabodhi and Upasaka Dustin talk about the teachings on body sensations from the Vedanasamyutta in the Samyuta Nikaya SN 36.4 SN 36.6 | |||
| Discourses on Samadhi and Abandonment from the Teachings on Sensations in the Samyutta Nikaya | 05 Nov 2023 | 00:52:53 | |
SN 36:1 Samadhisutta (Discourse on Immersion) https://suttacentral.net/sn36.1/en/bodhi?lang=en&reference=none&highlight=false SN 36:3 Pahanasutta (Discourse on Abandonment) https://suttacentral.net/sn36.3/en/bodhi?lang=en&reference=none&highlight=false | |||
| The Interior as Impermanent Discourse and The Exterior as Impermanent Discourse from the Discourses on the Six Sense Fields from the Samyutta Nikaya | 22 Oct 2023 | 01:04:27 | |
| Discourses on Impermanence Suffering and Not Self From the Teachings on the Aggregates in the Samyutta Nikaya | 15 Oct 2023 | 00:51:25 | |
Rev. Dhammabodhi and Upasaka Dustin discuss three short discourses on impermanence, suffering, and not self in the sub-collection of discourses on the five aggregates (khandasamyutta) in the Samyutta Nikaya SN 22:12 https://suttacentral.net/sn22.12/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin SN 22:13 https://suttacentral.net/sn22.13/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin SN 22:14 https://suttacentral.net/sn22.14/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin | |||
| Thrangu Rinpoche on the Eight Consciousnesses | 17 Aug 2024 | 01:56:42 | |
| At Devadaha Discourse from the Connected Discourses on the Aggregates | 08 Oct 2023 | 01:26:03 | |
Rev. Dhammmabodhi and Upasaka Dustin discuss the At Devadaha Discourse on the five aggregates from the connected discourses on the aggregates (Khandasamyutta) in the Samyutta Nikaya. SN 22:2 At Devadaha Discourse (Devadahasuta) | |||
| Discourse on Nakula's Father from the Teachings on the Aggregates in the Samyutta Nikaya | 01 Oct 2023 | 01:18:38 | |
Rev. Dhammabodhi talks about this discourse on the five aggregates of body, sensation, perception, volition, and consciousness then he and Rev. Dot Saunders Perez discuss. | |||
| The Nagarautta (City Discourse) from the Samyuttta Nikaya | 24 Sep 2023 | 01:01:26 | |
Rev. Dhammabodhi and Upasaka Dustin discuss the Nagarasutta where the Buddha describes the 12 links of dependent origination and the Eightfold Path like an ancient path to an ancient city. SN 12:65 Nagarasutta (The City) | |||
| Interview with Ricky Derisz from Mind That Ego Podcast | 19 Sep 2023 | 01:56:04 | |
John interviews Ricky Derisz from Mind that Ego Podcast. Ricky shares how he got into meditation to deal with depression and how that opened up to a deeper spiritual path. Topics include, therapy, mindfulness, loving kindness, Jung, working with the shadow, the deeper ground of innate goodness, scientism vs science, and yogic spirituality vs dogmatic religion. | |||
| Discourses on Intention and Suffering from the Nidanasamyutta of the Samyutta Nikaya | 17 Sep 2023 | 01:16:31 | |
SN 12:38 Cetanasutta (Discourse on Intention) SN 12:43 Dukkhasutta (Discourse on Suffering) | |||
| The Discourses on Fuel and on Ascetics and Brahmins from the Samyutta Nikaya | 10 Sep 2023 | 01:25:14 | |
| Discourse on Dependent Origination and Analysis Discourse from the Nidanasamyutta of the Samyutta Nikaya | 28 Aug 2023 | 01:41:34 | |
Rev. Dhammabodhi and Upasaka Dustin discuss the teachings on the 12 links of dependent origination in the first two discourses of the Nidanasamyutta of the Samyutta Nikaya SN 12:1 SN 12:2 | |||
| Renounced and With the Nun Sukkha Discourses from the Samyutta Nikaya | 20 Aug 2023 | 00:53:24 | |
Rev. Dhammabodhi and Upasaka Dustin talk about two discourses from the Saghatavaggasamyutta (Discourses with Verses) from the Samyutta Nikaya (Connected Discourses. SN 8:1 Renounced (Nikkhantasutta) SN 10:9 With the Nun Sukkha (1st) (Pathamasukkhasutta) | |||
| Jeta's Grove and With the Nun Soma Discourses from the Samyutta Nikaya | 13 Aug 2023 | 00:51:58 | |
Rev. Dhammabodhi, Rev, Bodhipala, and Upasaka Dustin discuss two discourses from the Collection of Discourses with Verses (Saghatavagga) from the Samyutta Nikaya. SN 1:48 Jeta''s Grove | |||
| Spiritual Communist Book Club: Revolution in Peru: Mariategui and the Myth by John M. Baines | 13 Aug 2023 | 01:30:47 | |
Lopon Dorje Khandro and Rev. Dhammabodhi discuss the life of writer and activist Jose Carlos Mariategui (1895-1930), a proponent of indigenous socialism in Peru. | |||
| Thich Nhat Hanh and The Heart of Understanding | 09 Aug 2024 | 01:46:12 | |
| The Eightfold Path and the Five Precepts as Committed Action in ACT | 06 Aug 2023 | 01:03:35 | |
Rev. Dhammabodhi gives an overview of the Eightfold Path that includes the five precepts. He provides a monastic version, a lay version, and a collective version of the path of practice. | |||
| Dhamma Talk on Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels and on the Discourse on Blessings | 30 Jul 2023 | 00:56:46 | |
Rev. Dhammabodhi and Upasaka Dustin talk about the practice of taking refuge in the Three Jewels of the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha as well as the Buddhist values in the Discourse on Blessings (Mangala Sutta). These teachings are correlated with the ACT process of Values. | |||
| Dhamma Talk on Self Inquiry Practice | 23 Jul 2023 | 00:47:46 | |
Rev. Dhammabodhi talks about Self Inquiry (atma vichara) practice aa taught by Sri Ramana Maharishi and then he and Upasaka Dustin discuss. | |||