Description

David Germano is an educator, scientist, and renown Tibetologist. But to let his life and work be merely a list would be an irreparable simplification, inappropriate as framing for this conversation, and a blindness to the genuine teachings of care and loving-kindness that can be found and felt from deep in his work. 

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Flourishing Commons Newsletter

Show Notes:

• Rainer Maria Rilke (05:20)
• Gül Dölen and 'critical period' Nardou et al., 2023 (14:30)
• Tibetan idea of breakthrough - Tregchö (16:00)
• Dzogchen (16:30)
• micro-phenomenology and Claire Petitmengin (19:30)
• the Four Noble Truths (24:00)
• Buddhist notion of emptiness (25:20)
• David's dissertation & Geshe Lhundub Soba (27:20)
• conception of flourishing (34:00)
• The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman (39:50)
• Danielle Allen (41:00)
• the wisdom of difference (42:00)
• Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida (49:00)
• Martin Heidegger (52:00)
• collectives (53:00)
• Truth and Method by Hans-Georg Gadamer (55:50)
• Li-Young Lee (01:01:00)
• Paul Farmer and moral clarity (01:10:00)
• what does it mean to flourish? (01:11:00)
• Dacher Keltner (01:18:00)
• Émile Durkheim and Collective effervescence (01:19:30)
• "The Next Buddha May Be a Sangha" by Thich Nhat Hanh (01:20:00)
• Lightning Round (01:20:00) 
  • Book: Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  • Passion: Tibetan music (John Flower)
  • Heart sing: deep pursuit of understanding contemplation
  • Screwed up: assuming everyone else was fully and truly committed to the mission
• Find David online: 
  • UVA
  • the Tibet Center (www.uvatibetcenter.org)
  • the Tibetan and Himalayan Library (THL, www.thlib.org)
  • Contemplative Sciences Center

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