Reading The Bhagavad Gita: Conclusion
Congratulations, you’ve read the Gita. Ancient texts are often difficult and a bit offputting but they really help us discover the structures of our own thinking and how our culture has conditioned us...
4 Jul 30min
An Invitation to Being Human: Ep. 4 - Discover Yourself
Bizarrely, in a society that isolates people, we also don’t spend much time with ourselves. Consistently pulled from ourselves, striving for external standards and ignoring our bodies we lose track of...
29 Jun 48min
Reading The Bhagavad Gita: Books 14, 15 & 16
We move from the Metaphysical arguments about How the universe is to how we should translate that understanding into our lives. And we finally get the argument for why Arjuna must indeed ride forth to...
26 Jun 28min
An Invitation to Being Human: Ep. 3 - Be a Burden
We receive endless messages about the importance of being independent, standing on our own, making something of ourselves and so forth that it is easy to forget this is all nonsense at best and life d...
22 Jun 55min
Reading The Bhagavad Gita: Books 11, 12 & 13
The fascinating parallels with the Book of Job in Chapter 11 of the Gita helps to highlight the profound differences between the Hindu and Christian tradition and the concept of the divine at the cent...
19 Jun 25min
An Invitation to Being Human: Ep. 2 - Make Something
It is commonplace and true that we live in a consumer society. Less noticed is that being a consumer casts us in a role as passive non-makers who do not produce and participate but simply define ourse...
15 Jun 51min
Reading The Bhagavad Gita: Books 8, 9 & 10
The Atman, Brahman, and Karma are presented quite clearly in book 8 and the implications are then extrapolated in Nine and Ten. These are the key ideas at the heart of Hinduism. The Atman is a challen...
12 Jun 27min
New Series! An Invitation to Being Human: Ep. 1 - Go Outside
This series is a concrete extrapolation of the ideals of Humanism within the context of our contemporary society. While it might seem like we can’t help but know how to be human, the pressures and str...
8 Jun 52min
