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I AwakenAwakening to Interconnection: Will Tuttle on I AwakenWhat if the belief that we're fundamentally separate is the root of most human conflict? Host Swati talks with author and pianist Will Tuttle about awakening to interconnection, and why compassion for people, animals, and ecosystems comes from the same shift in awareness.Will shares why he's never missed a day of meditation in 50 years, a daily practice from the four Brahmaviharas: love, compassion, joy, and peace, and why changing yourself is what actually creates lasting change.About the Guest: Will Tuttle, PhD, is the author of the bestselling book The World Peace...
2026-09-1629 min
Wealth & Wellness ExplorationsThe World Peace Diet: Food, Compassion & the Path to a Healthier Life with Dr. Will TuttleWhat if the way we eat is connected to the way we experience ourselves, other people, and the world around us?In this episode of Wealth & Wellness Explorations, Josephine sits down with Dr. Will Tuttle, internationally bestselling author of The World Peace Diet, educator, musician, spiritual teacher, and longtime advocate for compassionate living.Dr. Tuttle's extraordinary journey began in 1975 when, at just 22 years old, he and his brother left home on a spiritual pilgrimage, walking hundreds of miles across the United States while practicing meditation and living without money. That experience eventually led him to...
2026-09-0222 min
The Iferia TechcastFood Choices, Freedom, and Global Peace - Dr. Will Tuttle | Ep 211How do our everydaydietary choices influence not just personal vitality, but human consciousness,societal harmony, and ecological survival? In this episode of The IferiaTechCast, Ezekiel Iferia sits down with Dr. Will Tuttle, internationalbest-selling author of The World Peace Diet (translatedinto 19 languages), former Zen Buddhist monk, concert pianist, and educatorwith a PhD from UC Berkeley. Dr. Tuttle recountshis transformative spiritual pilgrimage across America at age 22 without money,his time living in intentional communities and Korean Zen monasteries, and theprofound shift that led him to adopt a compassionate, plant-based way of livingover four decades ago. H...
2026-08-2633 min
Zenith ExposureFood, Compassion & the Path to Peace | Dr. Will TuttleCan the choices we make every day—especially around food—shape not only our health, but also our relationships, our values, and even our vision for a more peaceful world?In this thought-provoking episode, I’m joined by Dr. Will Tuttle, internationally recognized author, educator, composer, and former Zen monk. Best known for his international bestseller The World Peace Diet, now published in 18 languages, Dr. Tuttle has spent decades exploring the connections between plant-based living, spirituality, compassion, and social justice.A recipient of the Courage of Conscience Award and the Empty Cages Prize, Dr. Tu...
2026-08-1734 min
Control or Be ControlledCan What You Eat Control Your Mind? Food, Freedom & Conscious Living | Dr. Will TuttleWhat if what you eat influences far more than your physical health?In this episode of Control or Be Controlled, Darlington sits down with Dr. Will Tuttle, internationally bestselling author of The World Peace Diet, former Zen monk, composer, concert pianist, and longtime advocate for plant based living, spirituality, meditation, and compassion for all life.Dr. Tuttle’s extraordinary journey has taken him from a spiritual pilgrimage across America to a Zen monastery in South Korea, academia at UC Berkeley, decades of traveling and teaching, and the writing of a...
2026-08-1428 min
Mind, Money and MedicineWhy Most People Are Unknowingly Sowing Violence With Their Diet with Dr. TuttleThe Transformative Power of Food, Conscious Living and Spirituality with Dr. Will TuttleMost of us drastically underestimate how our daily food choices influence more than just our waistlines — they impact our mental clarity, emotional well-being, relationships, and even the health of our planet. What if shifting to a plant-based diet could unlock not only better health but also a deeper sense of peace and social justice? Dr. Will Tuttle, bestselling author of *The World Peace Diet*, reveals how our diets are rooted in ancient spiritual teachings and how they can be the key to t...
2026-07-1334 min
Healing MindsetA Healed Mind is a Connected One: Dr. Will Tuttle on Compassion, Consciousness and Healing From the Inside OutWe tend to think of healing the mind as something private, something we do alone, turned inward. But there is an older understanding that says the health of our inner world is inseparable from how we relate to everything around us. The way we treat others. The awareness we bring to our choices. The compassion we are willing to extend beyond ourselves. From this view, a healed mind is not simply a calm one. It is a connected one.Dr. Will Tuttle, Ph.D., former Zen monk, visionary author, and musician, joins The Healing Mindset for a...
2026-07-1125 min
Born without a choiceChoosing Compassion: Freedom, Purpose, and Living in Alignment with Dr. Will TuttleWhat if the choices we make every day have the power to transform not only our own lives but the world around us? In this thought-provoking episode, bestselling author, former Zen monk, and internationally renowned speaker Dr. Will Tuttle explores the connection between compassion, spirituality, freedom, and purposeful living. Drawing from decades of global teaching and the ideas behind The World Peace Diet, Dr. Tuttle discusses how living in alignment with our deepest values can lead to greater health, inner peace, and meaningful change. This conversation challenges us to question our assumptions, listen to our intuition, and discover how...
2026-07-1029 min
Feelings with StrangersHow To Eat For Your Soul | Dr. Will TuttleWhat if the most radical act available to us right now is not a protest, a policy, or a purchase, but a question? A question about what we are actually participating in every single day at the table.
In this conversation, I sit down with Dr Will Tuttle, philosopher, musician, educator, former Zen Buddhist monk, and author of the worldwide bestseller The World Peace Diet, to explore one of the most confronting yet liberating truths: that the food on our plate is not just a personal choice. It is the foundation upon which our entire c...
2026-07-071h 00Feelings with StrangersHow To Eat For Your Soul | Dr. Will TuttleWhat if the most radical act available to us right now is not a protest, a policy, or a purchase, but a question? A question about what we are actually participating in every single day at the table.
In this conversation, I sit down with Dr Will Tuttle, philosopher, musician, educator, former Zen Buddhist monk, and author of the worldwide bestseller The World Peace Diet, to explore one of the most confronting yet liberating truths: that the food on our plate is not just a personal choice. It is the foundation upon which our entire c...
2026-07-071h 00
Wellness ReimaginedWellness as Wholeness: Compassion and Conscious Living with Dr. Will TuttleThere is a way of being well that no label or bottle can hold, it lives in how you relate to your body, your food, and the world you move through. This is for anyone seeking a wider, more honest definition of wellness.Dr. Will Tuttle shares a life built around wholeness, gratitude, creativity, and compassion, and an invitation to question the assumptions you never chose.About the Guest:Dr. Will Tuttle is the author of The World Peace Diet and a former Zen monk with a PhD from UC Berkeley. A pianist...
2026-06-2628 min
The divine decode PodcastDecoding the Hidden Meaning in How We Eat and Live with Dr. Will TuttleThere is meaning hidden in the most ordinary parts of life, the food on your plate, the relationships you keep, the routines you never question. This is for anyone ready to slow down and read what their everyday life has been quietly showing them.Dr. Will Tuttle explores how a clearer state of mind, and a closer look at how we eat and live, can change the way your whole life feels.About the Guest:Dr. Will Tuttle is the author of The World Peace Diet, now in nineteen languages, with a PhD...
2026-06-2524 min
The Uncommon Minds ExperienceWhy Our Food Choices Matter More Than We ThinkWhat if our daily choices affect far more than our physical health?In this episode of The Uncommon Mind Experience, we sit down with Dr. Will Tuttle—international bestselling author, former Zen monk, educator, composer, and one of the leading voices connecting food, spirituality, health, and compassion.Dr. Tuttle is the author of The World Peace Diet, a groundbreaking book translated into 19 languages and praised by readers around the world for its exploration of the relationship between our food choices, our consciousness, and the wellbeing of our planet....
2026-06-2528 min
Healthy Mind, Healthy LifeHow Meditation, Music And Plant-Based Eating Shape Mental Health, with Dr Will TuttleSend us Fan MailMental health can feel like a battle you fight inside your skull, but what if the fight is also happening on your plate, in your daily routines, and in the stories society trained you to accept? I sit down with Dr Will Tuttle, PhD (UC Berkeley), former Zen Buddhist monk, lifelong musician, and author of The World Peace Diet, to unpack a simple but challenging idea: a quiet mind is built through conscious living, not willpower alone. We talk about creativity as a doorway into stillness, including how music can become a...
2026-06-0626 min
Main Street VeganThe World Peace Way: Food, Freedom, and Vegan Foundations with Dr. Will TuttleCan our daily food choices shape not only our health, but the future of humanity itself? In this conversation, I speak with bestselling author, former Zen monk, and longtime vegan advocate Dr. Will Tuttle about the deep spiritual, cultural, and psychological implications of the way we eat.Drawing from decades of teaching and writing, Will explores the ideas behind The World Peace Diet, Food for Freedom, and The World Peace Way, explaining how modern food culture reinforces systems of domination, disconnection, and violence and how compassionate living offers a path toward healing.This e...
2026-05-1445 min
From Stardust To UsCompassion in a Conditioned World with Dr. Will TuttleSend us Fan MailIn this episode, we speak with Dr. Will Tuttle, author of the internationally acclaimed The World Peace Diet (published in 18 languages). In addition to The World Peace Diet, Dr. Tuttle is the author of Food for Freedom and The World Peace Way, Six Keys to Health and Harmony for All, as well as over a dozen other books and CDs. A former Zen monk with a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, Dr. Tuttle is an educator, musician, and...
2026-04-291h 04
Inner SkilledFrom Walking Across America to World Peace via Veganism: Dr Will Tuttle’s 50-Year Spiritual Journey(Ai assist:) Dr. Will Tuttle — author of the bestselling The World Peace Diet, musician, and lifelong spiritual practitioner — shares his incredible life story: leaving home in 1975 with his brother to walk across America in search of cosmic consciousness, decades in Zen monasteries in Korea and the U.S., intensive meditation retreats, becoming vegan in 1975, and traveling the world for 17 years in an RV spreading the message of compassion. At 72, Will reveals how a whole-food plant-based lifestyle, daily meditation, Tai Chi, and living close to nature have given him the biological age of 22 and his 77-year-old wife the...
2025-11-1752 min
The Spiritual ForumThe World Peace Way with Dr. Will Tuttle - EP 297In this inspiring conversation, Dr. Will Tuttle shares the six keys to living in health and harmony laid out in his most recent book, The World Peace Way, which is a practical companion to his best-selling books, Food for Freedom and The World Peace Diet. We explore the six keys -- nutrition, meditation, relationships, movement, nature and creativity -- and the steps you can take in these areas to connect with your truth and thrive. Will also shares how the spiritual practice of cultivating virtues ensures a life of freedom, and we also dive into the growing influence of AI an...
2025-02-111h 05
Love Covered LifeBREAKING: The Sin No One Talks About: It’s Right on Your Plate | Dr. William TuttleLove Covered Life Membership - Monthly Live Workshops with Guests! https://app.heartbeat.chat/lovecoveredlifeacademy/invitation?code=249889Love Covered Life (Free) Community: https://app.heartbeat.chat/lovecoveredlifeacademy/invitation?code=C4CE25WHERE TO FIND MELISSA: WEEKLY NEWSLETTER: https://melissadenyce.podia.com/weekly-newsletterWEBSITE: https://lovecoveredlife.com/VIDEO PODCAST: https://www.youtube.com/@lovecoveredlifepodcastINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/lovecoveredlife/TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@lovecoveredlifeBE A GUEST: https://www.lovecoveredlife.com/beaguestEMAIL FOR OTHER BUSINESS INQUIRIES: Melissa@lo...
2024-10-071h 00
The Spiritual ForumFood for Freedom Part 2 with Dr. Will Tuttle - EP 259In his recently published book, Food for Freedom: Reclaiming Our Health and Rescuing Our World , Dr. Will Tuttle highlights the crucial connection between our health and our freedom, and the many deceptions we live under. In this second of a two-part series, we delve deeper into the roots of our societal constructs, examining how they shape our health (aka’ health problems’) and hinder the discovery of our true nature. We also discuss steps we can take to liberate our minds and reclaim autonomy, harmony and wisdom that has been suppressed for ages.
Bio : Dr. Will Tuttle, visionary auth...
2024-05-1450 min
The Spiritual ForumFood for Freedom Part 1 with Dr. Will Tuttle - EP 258In his recently published book, Food for Freedom: Reclaiming Our Health and Rescuing Our World, Dr. Will Tuttle highlights the crucial connection between our health and our freedom, and the many deceptions we live under. From our earliest years we are trained by our parents and culture to not make essential connections, ultimately reducing our intelligence and disconnecting us from our essence. In this episode we explore what lies under the degraded state of our health, the exploitative nature of our social/political structures, and the crippling of Feminine Wisdom. Learn what it takes for us to restore ourselves...
2024-05-0749 min
The Spiritual ForumEpisode 175 - The Benevolent Revolution with Dr. Will TuttleDr. Will Tuttle, visionary author of the international best-seller, The World Peace Diet, has presented over 3,000 lectures, workshops, and concert events throughout the world. An ordained Dharma Master in the Zen tradition, he is a featured expert in Cowspiracy and A Prayer for Compassion. In this episode we traverse human history beginning 10,000 years ago when animal herding became the dominant culture and brought with it the elite class structure, materialism, war, domination of the feminine, and systemic exploitation that are so familiar to us today. We have individually and collectively been wounded by this culture and lost our ability to...
2022-09-121h 07
The Vegan Life Coach PodcastEP 79: A Deeper Look at Food with Dr. Will TuttleLearn more about the Plant-Empowered Coaching Program HERE.**Check out our new inspirational, interview-based sister podcast: RISE & THRIVE WITH ELLA MAGERS...LISTEN ON APPLELISTEN ON SPOTIFY-----------------------If you're like me... Interested in understanding the big picture of our culture, why we're facing such unyielding dilemmas, and how we can solve them, you're going to be fascinated by the provocative, challenging, and ultimately inspiring ideas that Dr. Will Tuttle delivers in episode 79 of The...
2021-10-1254 min
Eat Green Make GreenEpisode 123: Dr. Will Tuttle & The World Peace Diet“The only reason I was eating animal foods all those years was because I was just following orders. And that’s the only reason anyone does it.”On this week’s episode of the Eat Green Make Green Podcast I sit down with the amazing Dr. Will Tuttle. Dr Tuttle is the author of the best selling book The World Peace Diet, a former zen monk, a sought after speaker, a concert pianist, and has appeared in documentaries such as . We talk about when Dr. Tuttle was first exposed to veganism in a hippy commune in Tennessee, his experiences in meditati...
2020-08-261h 05Eat Green Make GreenEpisode 123: Dr. Will Tuttle & The World Peace Diet“The only reason I was eating animal foods all those years was because I was just following orders. And that’s the only reason anyone does it.”On this week’s episode of the Eat Green Make Green Podcast I sit down with the amazing Dr. Will Tuttle. Dr Tuttle is the author of the best selling book The World Peace Diet, a former zen monk, a sought after speaker, a concert pianist, and has appeared in documentaries such as . We talk about when Dr. Tuttle was first exposed to veganism in a hippy commune in Tennessee, his experiences in meditati...
2020-08-261h 05
THE LIVEGAN PODCASTE68: Dr. Will TuttleDr. Will Tuttle is a 39-year vegan and author of the #1 Amazon best-selling book The World Peace Diet, which has been called one of the most important books of the 21st century, and has been published in 16 languages. It provides the foundation of a more conscious society based on understanding the consequences of animal agriculture. Anyone wishing to understand the big picture of our culture and why we have the unyielding dilemmas we face, and how we can solve them, will be fascinated by these provocative, challenging, and ultimately inspiring ideas.Dr. Tuttle is...
2019-04-091h 23
The Best Ever You ShowDr. Will Tuttle - World Peace DietDr. Will Tuttle, visionary educator, has presented widely throughout North America and worldwide. A vegan since 1980, He is the author of the #1 Amazon best-selling book The World Peace Diet and is a recipient of the Courage of Conscience Award and the Empty Cages Award. He is the editor of the newly-released book, Circles of Compassion: Connecting Issues of Justice. Devoted to cultural healing and awakening, he is a Dharma Master in the Zen tradition, and his doctorate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, focused on educating intuition and altruism in adults. He has taught college courses in creativity, humanities...
2015-03-121h 02
Vegan - Vegetarian Solutions for a Sustainable Environment - Environmental and EcologicalWill Tuttle "World Peace Diet" part 1Dr. Tuttle discusses the main ideas in his recent book, The World Peace Diet, which has been called one of the most important books of the 21st century. It provides the foundation of a new society based on the truth of the interconnectedness of all life. Dr. Tuttle makes explicit the invisible connections between our culture, our food, and the source of our broad range of problems - and the way to a positive transformation in our individual and collective lives. Anyone wishing to understand the big picture of our culture and why we have the unyielding dilemmas we face...
2008-11-2300 minVegan - Vegetarian Solutions for a Sustainable Environment - Environmental and EcologicalWill Tuttle "World Peace Diet" part 2Dr. Tuttle discusses the main ideas in his recent book, The World Peace Diet, which has been called one of the most important books of the 21st century. It provides the foundation of a new society based on the truth of the interconnectedness of all life. Dr. Tuttle makes explicit the invisible connections between our culture, our food, and the source of our broad range of problems - and the way to a positive transformation in our individual and collective lives. Anyone wishing to understand the big picture of our culture and why we have the unyielding dilemmas we face...
2008-11-2300 min