School & Learnings

This is part of an audio blog series I've decided to create, since the idea for an internet radio show is not yet realized. I enjoy talking about things like mind/body connection and health, dimensional realities, alternate realities, time/space, quantum physics, consciousness, spirituality, matters involving heart-based love(or lack of it), and pretty much anything that is not boring(in my opinion) like movie stars and the latest clothing or electronic fad. ha

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Speaker(s): Dr Fabienne Peter, Professor Catherine Rowett, Dr Stephen de Wijze | Is politics the instrument of moral ideals and values? Is it something like ‘applied morality’? In recent years there has been a revival of approaches which give greater autonomy to distinctively political thought, which can be called ‘political realism’, in contrast to ‘political moralism’. The panel discussion will explore this contrast, and ask whether political legitimacy is ultimately a question of one’s moral conception. Fabienne Peter is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Catherine Rowett (@catherinerowett) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and Green Party parliamentary candidate for South Norfolk. Stephen de Wijze is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Manchester. Geoffrey Hawthorn is Emeritus Professor of International Politics and Emeritus Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. The Forum for European Philosophy (@LSEPhilosophy) is an educational charity which organises and runs a full and varied programme of philosophy and interdisciplinary events in the UK.

Is Politics Based on Morality? [Audio]

In episode fifteen we talk with Max Welling, of the University of Amsterdam and University of California Irvine. We talk with him about his work with extremely large data and big business and machine learning. We take a listener question about the relationship between machine learning and artificial intelligence. Plus, we get an introduction to change point detection. 

Really Really Big Data and Machine Learning in Business

08/24/2025, Marc Lesser, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Marc Lesser points out that “And yet” is a way of seeing differently, with greater confidence and greater humility. “And yet” could be how we describe history, our lives, and our futures.

Live What You See, Not What You Know

08/27/2025, So-on Eli Brown-Stevenson, dharma talk at City Center.
So-on Eli Brown-Stevenson explores what it means to be a good ancestor now: carrying warmth, witnessing others into fullness, and tending the ceremonies of life with reverence.

Ancestor Warmth

08/31/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler discusses practicing kindness as an overflowing of the direct experience of non-separation, and explores the teachings of Suzuki Roshi on ethical precepts by analyzing each word in a questionable statement that he heard: "You should be kind, and that's enough."

Is It Enough to Be Kind?

08/20/2025, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at City Center.
Shosan Victoria Austin teaches that when we train our posture and breathing in a manner that helps us sit at night, aided by traditional images and teachings, we can hold the dreamy parts of experience in stillness and understanding.

Meditating at Night

08/06/2025, Kristin Diggs, dharma talk at City Center.
Nyokai Kristin Diggs talks about the centrality of self-study in the context of Soto Zen, the interdependent nature of body-mind-self and all phenomena, and wise view within the context of Big Mind, which includes the whole universe.

Study the Self

09/06/2025, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at City Center.
Shosan Victoria Austin points out that most of us are trying to find stability in less-than-perfect places, times, and conditions. How do we build an external and internal environment that supports us to meditate in peace?

Zazen: Outer and Inner Sitting

09/10/2025, Doshin Dan Gudgel, dharma talk at City Center.
Doshin Dan Gudgel discusses gratitude and devotional practices, using his personal altars as examples, and reading “The Angel Handed Me a Book” by Paul Valéry.

Indiscriminate Devotion

09/07/2025, Sozan Michael McCord, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Sozan Michael McCord considers the deeper purpose of monasteries—not only as places of study and community, but as spaces that preserve and sustain collective practice, creating lasting impact beyond the moment of gathering.

What Is the Role of a Monastery in Today’s World?

09/17/2025, Kim Kogen Daiho Hart, dharma talk at City Center.
Kim Kōgen Daihō Hart explores her personal journey through anxiety to the realization that it is our own, all too real human struggles that light the path to liberation.

The Struggle Is the Medicine

09/21/2025, Hoka Chris Fortin, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Hoka Chris Fortin asks: How do we—individually and as one—not turn away but bear witness, and respond to the suffering of the world with clear-hearted wisdom and compassion as we awaken together to our True Nature and shared humanity.

Engaged Buddhism

Emissions from Indonesian fires greater than U.S. emissions. Dr. D. Murdiyarso from CIFOR and Rhett Butler from Mongabay explain the crisis. Radio Ecoshock 151104

Climate Disaster Indonesia

How can a materials science approach lead to medical breakthroughs?
In this episode of Disruptive, Wyss Core Faculty Member Dave Mooney discusses programmable nanomaterials approaches to fighting disease. Mooney explains how a cancer vaccine, developed by his team and currently in a clinical trial at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, can train one’s own immune system to target specific cancer cells. He also describes the development of novel hydrogels that find application in drug delivery systems and tissue regeneration. Chris Gemmiti, a member of the Wyss Institute’s Business Development team, joins the conversation to discuss the Wyss process of translation and what is involved in bringing the hydrogel drug delivery technology from bench-to-bedside.

Transcript: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wyss-prod/app/uploads/2017/08/10130728/Ep4_Disruptive_Cancer_Vaccine__Hydrogel_Drug_Delivery.pdf

Disruptive: Cancer Vaccine & Hydrogel Drug Delivery | Wyss Institute

2016-03-16, Ryushin Paul Haller, dharma talk at City Center.

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