Best Formless Podcasts (2025)

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JdR Podcast 647 - How Inner Attitude Shapes Your Experience 17:27

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Moen, Denmark Event - May 29, 2019 Evening. Years of inner work, and a pattern of irritation and anger can still get out of control. Where does it come from, and what can change it? Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. For more information about …

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Ep. 290 – The Balance Between Emptiness and Compassion 52:56

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Ram Dass talks about finding a balance between emptiness and compassion, then answers questions from the audience, including on how to deal with fear around current events. The Ram Dass community gathers regularly to engage in meaningful discussions about the podcast. We invite you to join us and share your curiosities, insights, and wisdom. Sign u…

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Bergson and Weird Philosophy: JF Martel on Time, Subjectivity, and Weirding Realism 1:21:02

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Have you ever felt reality glitch, as though the weird was peeking through the cracks of time or the Real? In this episode of LEPHT HAND, JF Martel joins to explore how Henri Bergson’s concept of duration and Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of becoming invite a radically weird subjectivity, one that consumes rhythms, intensities, and habits across time…

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JdR Podcast 646 - Discerning the Truth in Deeper Seeing 7:28

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Munich, Germany Event - October 31, 2011. New and deeper seeing brings greater responsibility to walk differently in this world, but how can you be sure you’re not misguided? Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. For more information about John de…

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JdR Podcast 645 - The Truth of Self-Acceptance 7:44

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Poleg Beach, Israel Event - October 30, 2019 Evening. How are love, self-acceptance and genuine okayness connected? John addresses some misperceptions and adds a little exercise to explore for yourself. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. For mo…

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Ep. 289 – There Is No Other, New Ram Dass Book Release with Parvati & Raghu Markus 50:24

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Celebrating the release of There Is No Other, a new book of teachings from Ram Dass' lectures, Parvati Markus and Raghu Markus listen to and reflect on some of the material used in its creation. The Ram Dass community gathers regularly to engage in meaningful discussions about the podcast. We invite you to join us and share your curiosities, insigh…

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Writing as Exorcism: Dreams and Dissolution in the Work of Henri Michaux (with Garett Strickland) 1:06:06

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Subscribe to LEPHT HAND for early access to episodes! Henri Michaux wrote as if to exorcise himself from existence. His poetry and prose traverse dream, delirium, and the slow undoing of identity, where language becomes both scalpel and spell. In this episode, Garett Strickland joins Sereptie to explore A Certain Plume, Darkness Moves (anthology), …

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Superknowledges 2 – 6 1:25:02

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Explaining the second through six superknowledges, continuing the teaching from Chapter 8.By Thubten Chodron

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JdR Podcast 644 - Your Self: A Living Vehicle of Transformation 30:18

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Pardes Hanna, Israel Event - October 31, 2012. Awakening is what we're born for, but it can come with a scary feeling of losing functionality in this world. John describes the integration process and the new abilities that will come in time. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meanin…

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28. Leading and Living from Awareness 13:43

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How is our life different when we are truly aware? How does our experiencing of life change when we are mostly present and not lost in mind-made stories and narratives? What is the impact we have on others when we are responsible for ourselves and our actions? When we lead not from a victim place, but from a place of full awareness, responsibility,…

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27. The formless now 11:06

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As we come to the end of the course, everything starts to merge together, and we become more intimate with the ever-present, never-ending, all-encompassing, formless Now. We learn to return here over and over again.By asoteslr

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26. Beginner's mind 10:13

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In this episode we enter the famous and extremely profound teaching and pointer of Zen Buddhism: Beginner's Mind. We fall back into the raw and direct experience of our senses, our curiosity and our not knowing minds. Taking back a step to awareness. We allow ourselves not to know, not to have an opinion, and to observe life and the world not expec…

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Intro to superknowledges 1:34:35

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Providing an overview of the superknowledges and explaining the first one, super-normal powers, continuing the teaching from Chapter 8.By Thubten Chodron

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JdR Podcast 643 - Lost in a Performance Orientation: What Really Helps? 15:34

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Bad Meinberg, Germany Event - October 23, 2019 Afternoon. Seeing her children under the societal pressure to perform is distressing for this parent, and she wants to know how she can be of real help. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. For more …

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25. Wordlessness with open eyes 11:01

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Once again, we practice staying present in the here and now, with open eyes, and aware of all senses, all sensations, all thoughts, emotions and thoughts, allowing everything to be exactly as it is. We are present in the here and now as awareness itself.By asoteslr

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24. Mental Constructions 14:26

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In this episode, we pay attention to how life differs in terms of simply experiencing it, versus making a mental construction of it. We practice going beyond the mental constructions, not reacting to them, while simple acknowledging them as they are: mental constructions. We also learn to stay in the direct, raw experience that life is. Always, in …

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23. Wordless Stillness 10:05

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In this episode, we practice exploring our lives beyond words. What is life, when we stop narrating it to ourselves? How is existence when there are no words that need to describe it? How is life experienced from a direct and raw perspective?By asoteslr

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22. Shifting back to context 12:24

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By asoteslr

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Ep. 288 – Opening to Death 41:09

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21. Open and closed eye meditation 12:46

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By asoteslr

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20. Closing the Gap 14:35

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In this episode we discover the simple realisation that human suffering is the result of fighting reality or not accepting it the way it is. We practise noticing when we unconsciously do this - as we physically and mentally contract and ask life to be what it is not - and release this contraction by returning back to the here and now: to the breath…

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19. Difficult emotions (3/3) 15:09

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In the episodes 17-18-19, we will be focusing on how to be with and manage difficult emotions. In this episode we focus on learning to "nurture" the emotion that is angry, sad, scared, insecure, uncomfortable ... We learn to create an space between the emotion and our full lived experience, learning to recognise that we are not our emotions. Emotio…

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JdR Podcast 642 - Your Sweet Return to the Delicacies of Being 29:38

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Edmonton, Canada Winter Seminar - December 29, 2004 Afternoon. In this conversation, John meets the many concerns that one can have about living in this world from delicate beingness, and explains how this is actually how we flourish the most. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the mean…

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Eight liberations and nine serial absorptions 1:31:21

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Reviewing the eight liberations and explaining the eight liberations from Pali tradition and nine serial absorptions, continuing the teaching from Chapter 8.By Thubten Chodron

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18. Difficult emotions (2/3) 13:34

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In the episodes 17-18-19, we will be focusing on how to be with and manage difficult emotions. In this episode we focus on learning to investigate what the present emotions are trying to tell us / to communicate to us, as a listening exercise, without reacting. We learn to recognise emotions as important data that are helping us navigate the experi…

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17. Difficult emotions (1/3) 14:46

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In the next episodes (17-18-19) we will be focusing on how to be with and manage difficult emotions. In this episode we focus on learning to recognise and accept the fact that difficult emotions are an integral part of the human experience. And therefore, it is not about trying not to experience difficult emotions, but learning to accept them as pa…

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16. Letting things be as they already are 15:31

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In this episode we once again practice what we have been learning throughout this course: to let things be as they already are. Recognising that the present is always and already here, the past is already gone, and the future is yet to come. So starting to recognise and accept how things are so that we can bring our focus to what is under our contr…

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15. Recognising thoughts as thoughts 15:49

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In this episode, we start practicing to recognise thoughts as thoughts, by taking a step back and creating a space between the thought and the lived experience. Learning that we are not our thoughts or our emotions. But emotions and thoughts are part of our lived experience.By asoteslr

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14. Open-Eyed Meditation 9:48

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In this episode, we start bringing our ability to be in the here and now to every aspect of our lives. To do that, we start practicing how it feels to "meditate" with open eyes, and to remain present throughout the day.By asoteslr

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13. "I" as a concept 13:25

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In this episode we learn to recognise how the mind works, and how it needs concepts to make sense of reality. Understanding concepts as a simplification of reality, we start exploring how the concept of "I", "me", mine" work, and their impact on our lived experience. We start recognising the difference between "our" lived experience free of concept…

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12. Here and Now 11:53

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In this episode we learn to keep coming back to the here and now. Returning to the all allowing, calm, open, and every present natural awareness.By asoteslr

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Four types of srvaka aryas and eight liberations 1:33:09

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Concluding the section on four types of śrāvaka āryas, and beginning the section on the eight liberations, continuing the teaching from Chapter 8.By Thubten Chodron

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The Body Without Organs: Artaud’s Last Writings with Stephen Barber 1:06:25

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What does it mean to imagine a body freed from its organs, its history, and its limits? In his final writings, Antonin Artaud turned against Christ, psychiatry, sexuality, and language itself, while elaborating the concept of the “body without organs.” Translator and scholar Stephen Barber joins us to discuss A Sinister Assassin, a collection that …

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JdR Podcast 641 - A Simple Shift of Awareness: A Most Profound Shift in You 15:38

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Findhorn, Scotland Event - March 10, 2012 Afternoon. It's possible to be free of your ancestral patterning ... and it doesn't need to change first. A fundamental shift is the only way, and John reveals how it works. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awar…

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11. The Art of Non Interfering 12:33

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In this episode we will learn to keep on recognising when we want to interfere and engage with thoughts, react to them, and fight reality. So that we can keep practising the coming back to the here and now effortlessly.By asoteslr

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10. Do not fight toughts 13:22

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In this session, we keep practicing the art of allowing the present moment to be as it is. We start learning to recognise repetitive thought patterns, and not to engage with them. While letting go of reacting to the mind's tendency to want to control "how I should feel or be", "how life should be", we practice recognising our ability to enjoy allow…

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9. The art of allowing 11:52

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In this session, once our attention has naturally shifted back to the sense of aliveness and experiencing - expanding into the full awareness of the here and now - we practice the art of allowing everything to be exactly as it is. I use the word "art" because we are learning to appreciate what it means to be human, in all its complexity and simplic…

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Ep. 287 – The Secret of Compassion 1:05:00

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8. Allowing everything to be 10:46

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In this session, once our the focused of attention has naturally settled back to the here and now, we practice allowing everything to be exactly as it is. We recognise the natural essential nature of awareness, learning to stay and settle in the open, non-judgemental and free space of allowing everything to be.…

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7. Context vs. Content 11:42

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In this session, once we let our attention naturally settle back to the experiential realm of living, we learn to recognise the difference between context (awareness) and content (perception). We practice stepping back over and over again to "the context", allowing the here and now to be exactly as it already is.…

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6. Mind contents 10:37

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In this session, we learn to focus our attention in the here and now through the full awareness that spontaneously arises from within the body, breath, senses, force of gravity, as well as the awareness of the contents of the mind: thoughts, stories, opinions etc. We recognise and accept all this phenomena as it arises, stepping back into allowing …

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5. Five Senses 11:43

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In this session, we learn to focus our attention in the here and now from within the breath, the body sensations, the force of gravity, and the full perception of our 5 senses. We allow the mind to settle through the clear awareness of our senses perception.By asoteslr

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Meditative absorption on the four truths 1:45:11

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Describing some of the different ways to overcome innate afflictions and progress on the path to liberation and full awakening, continuing teaching from Chapter 8.By Thubten Chodron

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JdR Podcast 640 - The Goodness and Difficulty of Moving Past Your Self 37:01

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Victoria, Canada Event - September 17, 2010, Evening. The wish to move beyond his self yet still able to be taken by a moment of defensive reactivity opens a deep enquiry into our different levels, and where the greatest value lies. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life…

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4. Force of Gravity 10:05

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In this session, we learn to focus our attention in the here and now from within (and as) the breath, the body sensations, and the force of gravity, allowing the mind to settle through the feeling of the heaviness in the body.By asoteslr

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3. Body Scan 10:19

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In this session, we learn to focus our attention in the here and now from within the breath and the body sensations, allowing the mind to settle through the body.By asoteslr

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2. Getting lost in thought 8:25

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In this session, we start to recognise how easily we lose the focus of the attention, getting lost in thought. We start learning to gently come back to the here and now, and to let the mind come back to its natural concentration.By asoteslr

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1. The Breath 6:38

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In this session, we learn to focus the attention on the breath, from within the body. A very effective way to fall back into effortless concentration and awareness.By asoteslr

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The mundane form and formless realm 1:44:05

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Describing the progression through the mundane meditative absorptions of the form and formless realms, continuing the teaching from Chapter 8.By Thubten Chodron

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JdR Podcast 639 - The Path Dissolves: Turning Into the Truth You Seek 14:09

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Interactive Livestream Online Meeting - February 28, 2021 Morning. This conversation goes to the heart of what enables the full return to one's innermost, revealing the pitfalls of a spiritual practice. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. For mo…