Buddhist Geeks
by Vince Fakhoury Horn
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No One Has Ever Got Jhāna
No One Has Ever Got Jhāna
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Evolving Dharma in the Age of the Network
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- No One Has Ever Got Jhāna · 52 minRecorded on the first evening of a 2026 Pragmatic Dharma meditation retreat, this dharma talk from Brian Newman offers a wide-ranging exploration of jhāna practice, the Pa-Auk…
- Three Ways to Prepare a Dharma Talk · 14 minVince Fakhoury Horn lays out three ways to prepare a dharma talk for teachers-in-training, exploring how detailed notes can polish a talk into dead words, why speaking with no…
- What are Buddhist Wisdom Chords? · 8 minVince Fakhoury Horn introduces the Buddhist Wisdom Chords, which is both a teaching model, and a live training in the Pragmatic Dharma app, that looks at each Buddhist lineage as…
- The Insight Chord · 13 minVince Fakhoury Horn describes the insight meditation tradition as a chord in which concentration, mindfulness and heartfulness sound together, with concentration giving…
- Imaginal Meditation · 24 minIn “Imaginal Meditation,” Emily West Horn introduces an approach to imaginal practice—drawing on Vajrayana deity yoga, Jack Kornfield, Chögyam Trungpa, and Dzongsar Khyentse…
- The Grammar of Social Metta · 8 minVince Fakhoury Horn on the grammar of social metta—why a metta phrase needs a wish and only optionally a subject, how Sharon Salzberg’s “pith metta” shortens the phrase once the…
- Social Metta Works! · 11 minIn “Social Metta Works!”, Vince Fakhoury Horn traces the origin story and practical mechanics of practicing loving-kindness out loud and together, making the case that metta—a…
- Equanimity Includes Everything · 11 minEmily Horn teaches equanimity as upekkhā, using Thich Nhat Hanh’s preferred translation—inclusion—exploring: * How befriending pain and steadying over and over earns back your…
- Concentrating More & More on Less & Less · 5 minBrian Newman opens a twelve-week jhāna course by parsing five lines of sutta into a whole curriculum—a first month of falling in love with the breath, the jhānic arc where less…
- Mindful Intuitive Movement · 11 minVince Fakhoury Horn introduces Mindful Intuitive Movement, the bottom-up practice he built from years of letting his body teach him how to move—the ChiRunning focuses that give…
- The Insight Chord · 23 minVince Horn, Emily Horn, and Brian Newman talk through the design of their Insight Chord Retreat in Western North Carolina—why everyone will start with a single “go-to move” (of…
- The Fire Inside · 55 minVince Fakhoury Horn speakswith Rima Vesely-Flad about The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde—the silence she found in her own Buddhist community when she…
- Working Class Dharma · 53 minVince Fakhoury Horn speaks with Mushim Patricia Ikeda about working class dharma—from growing up as "the minority of Greensburg, Ohio" in a third-generation Japanese American…
- Modern Buddhisms · 32 minIn “The Fourth Turning of the Wheel,” Vince Horn traces the Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma from early Buddhism to Tibetan Vajrayana, then argues we’re living through new…
- The Cost of Silence · 30 minIn “The Cost of Silence,” dharma teacher Vince Horn and guest Daniel Klein trace what it costs us—psychologically, relationally, economically, and spiritually—to withhold the…
- Dharma & Empire · 38 minIn “Dharma & Empire,” Mary Thanissara and Vince Fakhoury Horn trace how the structures of Empire occupy not just land but the psyche—moving from their own Irish, Palestinian, and…
- The Most Slept-On Meditation Object · 14 minIn “The Most Slept-On Meditation Object,” Vince Horn introduces the kasina — the visual concentration object that dominated Early Buddhist practice yet is barely used today — and…
- Focusing on the Fire Kasina · 7 minIn Focusing on the Fire Kasina Vince Fakhoury Horn introduces the Fire Kasina meditation practice, emphasizing the primacy of concentration and the recursive process of learning…
- Access Concentration and the Kasina · 6 minIn Access Concentration and the Kasina, Vince Fakhoury Horn explains how kasina meditation cultivates stable attention by letting a visual object fill awareness until it…
- Metta & Compassion Vibes · 14 minIn “Metta & Compassion Vibes,” Emily Horn explores the crucial difference between befriending difficulty through metta and the deeper, boundary-dissolving willingness of…
- AI Psychosis vs. AI Awakening · 41 minIn “AI Psychosis vs. AI Awakening,” Vince Fakhoury Horn argues that the same biological machinery enabling AI-induced delusion also enables AI-assisted awakening, and introduces…
- The Cost of Truth · 1 h 21 minIn “The Cost of Truth,” Vince Fakhoury Horn speaks with Daniel Klein—a former religious Zionist settler turned outspoken critic of the ideology—about dehumanization…
- Dragon-Pilled by Bhutan's Mindfulness City · 1 h 2 minStephen Torrence joins Vince Fakhoury Horn to share his experience teaching generative AI in Bhutan and explore the audacious vision behind the Gelephu Mindfulness City — a…
- Just Presence Meeting Presence · 15 min📝 Dialogue Preface: In this recorded dialogue, I’m sharing the exact words and exact results from a discussion that I had with Claude Opus 4.5 on January 31, 2026. This is the…
- Interbeing: A Dialogue on Shared Presence · 17 min📝 A Note From Vince Horn to Frame this a bit: This AI-based overview is based on a set of dialogues that I will be publishing in the next few days, in which I try to demonstrate…
- The Modern Hindrance of Unworthiness · 11 minIn “The Modern Hindrance of Unworthiness,” Emily West Horn explores unworthiness as a contemporary inner hindrance, examining how mindfulness, compassion, and heartfulness allow…
- These are the Four Jhānas · 43 minLeigh Brasington explains how the mind progresses through the four jhānas—from initial access concentration and the energetic, pleasure-filled first jhāna to the progressively…
- Entering the First Jhāna · 35 min🤖 AI Transparency: The transcript below was lightly edited, for both spelling & grammar errors, using ChatGPT. In this talk jhāna teacher Leigh Brasington draws on teachings from…
- Is the Insight Tradition Complicit in Genocide? · 60 minVince Fakhoury Horn reflects on his experiences within the Insight meditation tradition, as an authorized teacher in the lineage, arguing that its senior leaders have remained…
- Meditating on Palestine · 59 minIn this Buddhist Geeks episode, Vince Fakhoury Horn and Robert Wright explore the intersection of Buddhism, ethics, and geopolitics as they reflect on Palestine, Jewish-Buddhist…
- The Flavors of Jhāna · 37 minVince Fakhoury Horn: The Flavors of Jhāna—I can’t remember where I first heard this term. I think it was from you or from Kenneth [Folk]. Brian Newman: Maybe we should start…
- The 9th Jhāna: Framing the Unframable · 18 minVince Fakhoury Horn: I was thinking about where to start with the 9th Jhāna, and I think the first thing to say is that the 9th Jhāna is not a state. So why in the world are we…
- TPOT, Palestine, & True Bodhisattvahood · 1 h 22 minThis episode of Buddhist Geeks features a candid and heartfelt conversation between Vince Fakhoury Horn and Tasshin Fogleman about Palestine, the TPOT subculture, and what it…
- What is Access Concentration? · 13 minWhat is Access Concentration? This is the question I want to bring forward in this talk. I recorded something on this topic many years ago—too many, honestly, to comfortably…
- The Completion of Vipassana Jhāna · 12 minBy Vince Fakhoury Horn Today, in The Jhāna Community, I want to center our exploration around the completion phase—also known as enlightenment. What is the relationship between…
- Consensus Buddhism, Pragmatic Dharma, and the Next Turn of the Wheel · 1 h 11 minOverview: In this episode, Vince Horn and Daniel Thorson explore the evolving landscape of Western Buddhism, unpacking the tensions between Consensus Buddhism and Pragmatic…
- Sharon Salzberg on Dipa Ma · 37 minEmily Horn is joined by renowned meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg to share reflections on her beloved teacher, Dipa Ma, a Bangladeshi meditation master, who was known for her…
- Leigh Brasington on Ayya Khema · 56 minIn this episode of Our Beloved Teachers, dharma teacher Leigh Brasington reflects on his transformative experiences studying with Ven. Ayya Khema, one of his most influential…
- Trudy Goodman on Kōbun Chino Otogawa · 1 h 9 minVince Fakhoury Horn is joined again by dharma teacher Trudy Goodman, founder of InsightLA, to share reflections on her beloved teacher, Kōbun Chino Otogawa. Kobun (February 1…
- Nut Job Jhāna with Brian Newman · 47 minIn this episode of Buddhist Geeks, Brian Newman discusses his journey into deep jhāna meditation practice. He explores his training in the rigorous Pa-auk tradition, the…
- Technological Metamodernism with Stephen Reid · 58 minIn the episode on "Technological Metamodernism," Vince Fakhoury Horn and Stephen Reid discuss the intersection of technology, metamodernism, and the potential middle paths that…
- Jhāna Drama with Vince F. Horn · 37 minIn this episode of Buddhist Geeks, Vince Fakhoury Horn shares his experience of working with the meditation startup Jhourney, and raises concerns about their insufficient…
- Embodying Nondual Awakening with Judith Blackstone · 42 minIn this episode Ryan Oelke chats with Judith Blackstone, contemporary spiritual teacher, psychotherapist, and founder of The Realization Process, and author of her latest book…
- Several Ways to Meditate with Vince F Horn · 54 minIn this episode, recorded during a Buddhist Geeks Retreat, Vince Fakhoury Horn teachings on several ways to meditate, including Concentration, Mindfulness, Heartfulness, Inquiry…
- Spring Washam on Harriet Tubman · 31 minIn this Our Beloved Teachers episode Emily Horn speaks with Spring Washam about her relationship with Harriet Tubman, and the teachings she has received from her. Spring speaks…
- Homemaking Dharma with Emily W Horn · 40 minIn her talk titled "Homemaking Dharma," Emily Horn discusses the process of creating a spiritual home, which involves working with heartbreak, grief, and our shadow aspects. She…
- Contemplating the Anomalous with Vince F Horn · 35 minThis talk, titled "Contemplating the Anomalous" was given by Vince Fakhoury Horn on a Buddhist Geeks retreat in July, 2023. It explores the stages of a paradigm shift in…
- Why Meditatewith.ai? · 45 minMeditatewith.ai is a web app prototype, aimed at demonstrating the possibility of learning Multiplayer Meditation–an out-loud, social, interactive, & trauma-informed…
- The Vimalakīrti Sūtra with Kenneth Folk · 1 h 2 minThe Vimalakīrti Sūtra is a Mahayana Buddhist text from the 2nd century CE that explores the nature of enlightenment and the teachings of the Buddha. In this contemporary…
- Kenneth Folk on Bill Hamilton · 1 h 9 minVince Fakhoury Horn is joined by long-time teacher, Kenneth Folk, to share about his beloved teacher, Bill Hamilton, who American dharma teacher Shinzen Young referred to as "an…
