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The Gay Buddhist Forum by GBFA Funny Thing Happened in My Practice of Awareness - Bill WeberDo we have the ability to laugh at ourselves? Bill Weber shares that this is a terrific way to work with one of the foundations of Buddhist wisdom: the concept of Non-self. The allure of our sense of self can easily lead us to become overly attached to our identity. We become competitive, demanding, and obsessive about the way we are treated. To counter this, Bill encourages us to instead find humor in the demands that our ego makes of us (and others). If we observe our mind playing these games, it allows us to li...
2023-09-1054 min
Eugene Cash's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)Eugene Cash: Living & Dying: Remembering Wes ‘Scoop’ Nisker: Friend, Colleague, Teacher— Died Aug 3 2023(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) “If you don’t like the news, go out and make some of your own.” — Wes Nisker
2023-08-1331 min
The New Dimensions CaféDo-Be-Play-Live - Wes "Scoop" Nisker - C0084Wes “Scoop” Nisker is a Buddhist meditation teacher, journalist, and author. He is founder and co-editor of the Theravada Buddhist journal, Inquiring Mind, and an affiliate teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. His delightful humor accompanies his philosophy and experience of Buddhist insight meditation. Prior to being a meditation teacher, he was a well-known radio announcer in the San Francisco Bay area who went by the name of "Scoop." Where he was known to say, “If you don’t like the news, go out and make some of your own.” He is the author of Buddha's Nature: A...
2023-07-0415 min
New DimensionsCrazy Wisdom For A Crazy World - Wes “Scoop” Nisker - ND3284Nisker takes us on a funny, smart, and enlightening foray into physics, spirituality, and the oddities of life as we know it. You’ll hear a new spin on atomic theory, meditation, politics, evolution, and more. Beneath the humor, though, is the wisdom of a man who sees life for what it is, and celebrates it for all it can be.Wes “Scoop” Nisker is a Buddhist meditation teacher, author, radio commentator, and performer. He is founder and co-editor of the Theravada Buddhist journal, Inquiring Mind, and an affiliate teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodac...
2023-06-1857 min
New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsThe Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom: The Spiritual Experiments of My Generation by Wes “scoop” Nisker, Anne LamottPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693138 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom: The Spiritual Experiments of My Generation Author: Wes “scoop” Nisker, Anne Lamott Narrator: Peter Coyote Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Iconic newscaster and Buddhist teacher chronicles the 1960s and ‘70s in India, the Bay Area, and beyond. Join Wes “Scoop” Nisker, a renowned Buddhist meditation teacher, performer, and newscaster, on a wild ride from West to East and back in his quest for true self and enlightenment. Narrated by the legendary Peter Coyo...
2023-06-1305 min
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksLeslie Booker, Vinny Ferraro, Wes Nisker: Day 5 Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2019-09-211h 12
Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Vinny Ferraro's most recent Dharma talksLeslie Booker, Vinny Ferraro, Wes Nisker: Day 5 Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2019-09-211h 12Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Day 4 Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2019-09-2042 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Excavation of My Notebooks (Retreat at spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2018-11-2238 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Day Four, Sitting with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2018-10-0547 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: The Mystery Continues (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Musings on evolution
2018-10-0439 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Day Two, Sitting Meditation with Guided Practices (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2018-10-0339 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Day One, Sitting with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2018-10-0258 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Totally Great America - Monday night dharma talk(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2018-09-0343 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Crazy Wisdom at IMCB: Poems, Darkness, Galaxy, Big Bang, Be Here now......and much more.(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)
2017-12-1459 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: "Knocking on Heavens Door......A Big Perspective Along With Some Levity.....Searching for Self.....And What Are We Doing Here? Enjoy the Laughs!!!(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)
2017-10-0552 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Monday Night Meditation - Part 2(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Wes Nisker dharma talk at Monday Night Meditation
2017-07-1751 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Monday Night Meditation - Part 1(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Wes Nisker introduction and meditation at Monday Night Meditation
2017-07-1736 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: How to be Earthling(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Evolving together on planet earth
2017-07-0539 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: "Crazy Wisdom Meets Politics"(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)
2017-05-1155 min
AudioDharma: Wes Nisker's most recent dharma talksEarth DayThis talk was given by Wes Nisker on 2017.05.01 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2017-05-0255 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Who are You?(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2016-11-0344 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Second Morning Guided Meditation(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2016-10-2140 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Monday Night Meditation Class(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2016-08-2955 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Excavation of My Notebooks(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Snatches of science, news, poetry and crazy wisdom
2016-07-0846 min
KPFA - The Hear and NowAnna Ash and Scoop Nisker live on The Hear and Now–June 30, 2016If you love the voices of Lucinda Williams and Frazey Ford (Be Good Tanyas), then you’re going to (or already do) really love the voice, and the songwriting, of Anna Ash. Her new album, “Floodlights,” isn’t due out until September, but she’s up from L.A. for a gig at Amnesia in San Francisco on July 1, and she stops in at KPFA for an in-studio interview with host Derk Richardson and of course she’ll sing several songs.
But that’s not all tonight! Wes “Scoop” Nisker will kick off the show with a new song, “Be...
2016-07-0117 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Day Six Metta for the Earth(Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley))
2016-05-0536 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Identity Crisis(Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley))
2016-05-0348 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Big Sky Guided Meditation(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2016-04-1548 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Metta for Self and the Earth(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2016-04-1440 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Evolving Together(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2016-04-1244 min
Spirit RockHow To Be An Earthling - Wes Nisker AUDIOHighlights from a Spirit Rock Day Long event - Sustaining Ourselves to Sustain the World with
James Baraz
Margarita Loinaz and Patricia St. Onge
Ayya Santussika
Thanissara
Wes Nisker
2015-11-1830 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: How to be an Earthling(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Stories celebrating our experience as Earthlings. Earth days (and Earth Care days) are not just a call to “do something” to heal our damaged eco-systems, but more of a spiritual exercise, a time to celebrate all life, regardless of kingdom, phyla, or species: regardless of color of skin, feathers, fur, flowers, leaves or bark. This is a time to reflect on our connection to this planet, and to embrace our basic identity as "earthlings.”
2015-10-0430 minAudioDharma: Wes Nisker's most recent dharma talksIdentityThis talk was given by Wes Nisker on 2015.08.30 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2015-08-3049 minAudioDharma: Wes Nisker's most recent dharma talksIdentityThis talk was given by Wes Nisker on 2015.08.30 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2015-08-3048 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: How Did We Get Here?(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How Did We Get Here?- Monday Night Talk
2015-08-1053 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Evolving Together(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2015-07-0643 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Friday Morning Guided Big Sky Meditation(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2014-12-1255 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Evolving Together(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Evolutionary origin of aggregates.
2014-12-1157 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: 1st Noble Kvetch(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2014-10-2945 min
Ram Dass Here And NowEp. 63 - Soul PodRam Dass hosts his long time Buddhist friends- Jack Kornfield, Catherine Ingram and Wes Nisker at his home in Maui for an intimate chat on their first meetings - the gathering of the "soul pod" - In the early 70's these westerners took in the essence of Hinduism and Buddhism from the East, deepening their understanding of true nature, and brought it back to the West. The group also discusses "spiritual bypassing", the meaning of suffering and Ultimate Reality.
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2014-10-221h 03Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: How To Be An Earthling(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2014-10-0649 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: How To Be an Earthling(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) with Kevin Griffin on guitar
2014-04-2026 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Reflections on a Spin around the Sun...(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Thoughts, moments, meditations for a New Year,... or how time is always present...
2013-12-301h 03Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Perfectly Human: Difficult States of Mind(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2013-11-2455 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Liberate the Body & Stretch the Mind: Self & Not-Self(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2013-11-171h 15Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: The Mystery Remains(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Astronomy, biology and the cultivation of wonder.
2013-10-2450 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Evolving Together(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) About identity and evolution.
2013-10-2255 minAudioDharma: Wes Nisker's most recent dharma talksExcavation of My FilesThis talk was given by Wes Nisker on 2013.09.22 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2013-09-2240 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Evolving Together(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The new story of who we are in the universe - told with humor and dharma.
2013-05-1055 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: How to Be an Earthling...(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2013-04-2946 minAudioDharma: Wes Nisker's most recent dharma talksYou Are Not Your FaultThis talk was given by Wes Nisker on 2013.04.07 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2013-04-0748 min
2012-12-1800 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Exploring Identity(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2012-11-2151 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Loving-kindness for the Earth(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2012-11-1924 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Who Are We?(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How meditation can shift our sense of identity.
2012-10-2151 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Labor Day!(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)
2012-08-3044 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Identity and Who Am I?(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
2012-08-0950 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: The Four Noble Truths(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
2012-08-0641 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Science and Wonder(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2012-06-2550 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Guided Metta Meditation(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2012-06-2523 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Evolution and Other Matters(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2012-06-2358 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Difficult Mind States(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2012-06-2146 minAudioDharma: Wes Nisker's most recent dharma talksComic Fund Raising for the Insight Retreat CenterThis talk was given by Wes Nisker on 2012.03.31 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2012-04-0158 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: It's About Time(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2012-01-2346 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Time Travel(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)
2012-01-0546 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Be Here Wow Again(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2012-01-0258 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: The Path of the Fool(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Path of the Fool
2011-08-1149 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Who Am I?(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) exact date unknown
2011-08-0347 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Happiness(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) exact date unknown
2011-08-0230 minAudioDharma: Wes Nisker's most recent dharma talksAll and Everything AgainThis talk was given by Wes Nisker on 2011.05.15 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2011-05-1544 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: The Dharma, the Cosmos, and You - Part 1(Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley)) Questions about identity -- with a reflection on modern science to arouse awe and wonder.
2011-05-1155 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: The Dharma, the Cosmos, and You - Part 2(Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley)) Continued: Questions about identity -- with a reflection on modern science to arouse awe and wonder.
2011-05-1101 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Closing Thoughts(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) with Joanna Macy and participants
2011-04-2455 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Buddha Blues and Performance(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Talk and performance
2011-04-2335 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: The Elements; Q&A(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Our Bones=earth; Blood, tears, sweat, fluids=water; warmth=fire/sun; breath=air; space=where we are/where it happens
2011-04-231h 03Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Readings and Group Haiku(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Includes group break-up, sharing haiku and reading of haiku.
Periods of silence.
2011-04-221h 22Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Thoughts about Thinking(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Also Big Sky Meditation; Q&A-including reflections on Ancestor Walk and Truth Mandala from day before
2011-04-221h 31Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Practice-Reconnecting and Identity(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2011-04-2125 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Four Kinds of Love(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) In honor of Valentine's Day, Wes reflects on everybody's favorite 4-letter word. As usual, he provides an insightful and entertaining perspective on the topic illustrated with a wealth of poetry. A discussion with the sangha ends the evening.
2011-02-1052 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: A New Story: Was the World Made for Man?(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) An insightful and humorous exploration of the place of humans in the universe. Includes a reading of Mark Twain's essay "Was the World Made for Man." The evening ends with a discussion with sangha members.
2010-12-0256 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Hindrances and Such(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2010-11-2156 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: On Religion and Politics and/or (Politics and Spirituality)(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) On Religion and Politics and/or (Politics and Spirituality)
2010-09-3053 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: April holidays(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)
2010-04-1555 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: 4 Foundations as an Evolutionary Journey(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2009-11-2558 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Staying In Wonder(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Rhythms, cycles, spiral dances of thought, non-thought
Evolving magic of awareness and breath... the universe being aware of its self... of self
2009-07-0654 minInsight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Charles Darwin's 200Th Birthday(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)
2009-02-121h 03Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Wes Nisker's most recent Dharma talksWes Nisker: Wes Nisker Reflects...(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Wes talks about his new book, "The Best of Inquiring Mind: 25 Years of Dharma, Drama, & Uncommon Insights".
He reads a really wonderful poem right at the end of the talk (reviewer's comment).
2008-08-2150 min
Buddhist GeeksCrazy Wisdom Saves the Day!Crazy Wisdom, a phrase coined by the late Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, is used to describe uncommon, unique, and even wild ways of sharing wisdom. Wes Nisker, insight meditation teacher, shares with us his connection to the crazy wisdom teachers of the past, including such spiritual teachers as Jesus, Rumi, Kabir, and Benkei as well as philosophers, scientists, and artists from the Western tradition. We discuss the importance of crazy wisdom, especially with regards to it’s ability to pave the way for new ways of thinking. Quoting Oscar Wilde, Wes explains that, “all great truths begin as blasphemy.” At the en...
2008-02-1113 min
Buddhist GeeksCrazy Wisdom Saves the Day!Crazy Wisdom, a phrase coined by the late Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, is used to describe uncommon, unique, and even wild ways of sharing wisdom. Wes Nisker, insight meditation teacher, shares with us his connection to the crazy wisdom teachers of the past, including such spiritual teachers as Jesus, Rumi, Kabir, and Benkei as well as philosophers, scientists, and artists from the Western tradition. We discuss the importance of crazy wisdom, especially with regards to it’s ability to pave the way for new ways of thinking. Quoting Oscar Wilde, Wes explains that, “all great truths begin as blasphemy.” At the en...
2008-02-1111 min
Buddhist GeeksScience as the Western Wisdom Tradition“The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.” – Einstein One would think that the above quote would come from one of the East’s great sages, but instead it comes from one of the last centuries most celebrated physicists. In this episode Wes Nisker shares with us his understanding of the similarities and differences amongst the Eastern and Western approaches to knowledge. He uses the human brain and it’s two hemispheres as a metaphor for understanding these two different, and yet intima...
2008-02-0410 min
Buddhist GeeksScience as the Western Wisdom Tradition“The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.” – Einstein One would think that the above quote would come from one of the East’s great sages, but instead it comes from one of the last centuries most celebrated physicists. In this episode Wes Nisker shares with us his understanding of the similarities and differences amongst the Eastern and Western approaches to knowledge. He uses the human brain and it’s two hemispheres as a metaphor for understanding these two different, and yet intima...
2008-02-0411 min
Buddhist GeeksAtto, Zepto, and Yacto: The Buddhist Marx BrothersWe speak to insight meditation teacher and comedian Wes Nisker about humor, enlightenment, and the way that the scientific vision has impacted and informed the teachings of the Buddha. Quoting Wavy Gravy, Wes comments that, “If you don’t have a sense of humor, it just isn’t that funny.” Wes, who also has a passion for science, shares the Buddha’s teachings on karma and impermanence and how those teachings relate to the current state of science. Find out how much happens in a yactosecond, and what science and the Buddhist teachings in karma have in common. This is...
2008-01-2116 min
Buddhist GeeksAtto, Zepto, and Yacto: The Buddhist Marx BrothersWe speak to insight meditation teacher and comedian Wes Nisker about humor, enlightenment, and the way that the scientific vision has impacted and informed the teachings of the Buddha. Quoting Wavy Gravy, Wes comments that, “If you don’t have a sense of humor, it just isn’t that funny.” Wes, who also has a passion for science, shares the Buddha’s teachings on karma and impermanence and how those teachings relate to the current state of science. Find out how much happens in a yactosecond, and what science and the Buddhist teachings in karma have in common. This is...
2008-01-2114 min
The Gay Buddhist Forum by GBFCrazy Wisdom - Wes NiskerWes Nisker, the co-founder and editor of the international Buddhist journal Inquiring Minds, has practiced Vipassana meditation for 30 years. He is the author of "Buddha's Nature: Evolution as a Guide to Enlightenment," "Crazy Wisdom: A Romp Through the Philosophies of East and West," and "The Buddha, the Big Bang, and the Baby Boom: The Spiritual Experiments of My Generation." In addition to leading a regular sitting group in Berkeley, he teaches classes in meditation and philosophy at Spirit Rock and at other locations around the country. ______________ To support our efforts to share these talks with LGBTQIA audiences worldwide...
2007-08-0553 minAudioDharma: Wes Nisker's most recent dharma talksYour MindThis talk was given by Wes Nisker on 2006.08.21 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2006-08-2152 min
The Gay Buddhist Forum by GBFThe Mind - Wes NiskerWes Nisker, the co-founder and editor of the international Buddhist journal Inquiring Minds, has practiced Vipassana meditation for 30 years. He is the author of "Buddha's Nature: Evolution as a Guide to Enlightenment," "Crazy Wisdom: A Romp Through the Philosophies of East and West," and "The Buddha, the Big Bang, and the Baby Boom: The Spiritual Experiments of My Generation." In addition to leading a regular sitting group in Berkeley, he teaches classes in meditation and philosophy at Spirit Rock and at other locations around the country. ______________ To support our efforts to share these talks with LGBTQIA audiences worldwide...
2006-08-1358 min
The Gay Buddhist Forum by GBFWes NiskerWes Nisker, the co-founder and editor of the international Buddhist journal Inquiring Minds, has practiced Vipassana meditation for 30 years. He is the author of "Buddha's Nature: Evolution as a Guide to Enlightenment," "Crazy Wisdom: A Romp Through the Philosophies of East and West," and "The Buddha, the Big Bang, and the Baby Boom: The Spiritual Experiments of My Generation." In addition to leading a regular sitting group in Berkeley, he teaches classes in meditation and philosophy at Spirit Rock and at other locations around the country. ______________ To support our efforts to share these talks with LGBTQIA audiences worldwide...
2002-10-0658 minAudioDharma: Wes Nisker's most recent dharma talksCynics In RecoveryThis talk was given by Wes Nisker on 2002.06.15 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2002-06-152h 07
The Gay Buddhist Forum by GBFThe 3 Marks of Existence and The Path of Meditation - Wes NiskerThe Buddha outlined the '3 Characteristics of Existence' as Impermanence, Unsatisfactoriness, and Non-Self (or anatta). In this talk, Wes shares how these are foundational to the path of meditation. Highlights include: The concept of “Radical impermanence”The Tibetan appreciation for our precious existence as human beings.How non-self stems from the interdependence with everything, That our consciousness is the consciousness of the Universe.That human beings are the only creatures that can see ourselves in context.Mindfulness is a non-interfering awareness, a clear knowing.Freud's view that our personality can be viewed as a pet. ...
2000-06-1252 min