Best Tricycle Talks Podcasts (2025)

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Writing in Exile with Bhuchung D. Sonam 1:00:42

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Bhuchung D. Sonam is an exiled Tibetan writer, poet, translator, and publisher currently based in Dharamshala. His press, TibetWrites, has published more than fifty books by contemporary Tibetan writers. In this episode of Tricycle Talks, Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, sits down with Sonam to discuss how writing has helped him navigate …

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Talking Out of Both Sides of Your Mouth 12:58

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! “Talking Out of Both Sides of Your Mouth,” Episode 210 🚀🤣 Perswayssick Radio: Unearthly Comedy brings you another laugh-warped adventure from the bizarre parallel universe of Perswayssick County! 🛠️ This week, chaos hits the streets when notorious 💩 villain Nurse Maudlyn is hau…

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Bad Morning to You: We Regret to Inform You It's Today 25:32

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! “Bad Morning to You, Too: We Regret to Inform You It’s Today,” Episode 209 🛸Dimension-burned Earthling DJ Nicki Rodriguez wakes up in the utterly chaotic mansion of Diroctor Bizzig “Zig” Gneeecey, a loudmouthed canine-humanoid with questionable hygiene and an even more question…

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Outhouse Under Fire: The Battle Above 666 Van Pooop Lane 21:52

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! “Outhouse Under Fire: The Battle Above 666 Van Pooop Lane,” Episode 208, Perswayssick Radio: Unearthly Comedy, by Vicki Solá 🚨Hold on to your plungers! In this laugh-loaded episode of Perswayssick Radio: Unearthly Comedy, we return to the madness at 666 Van Pooop Lane, where ev…

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A Note From Vicki 1:26

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! 🎙️Hey Everyone! Vicki here with a quick update from the chaos corner of the universe... Our next episode of Perswayssick Radio: Unearthly Comedy is running just a little late—but don’t worry, it’s still crash-landing soon! Here in the New York-metro dimension, we’ve been meltin…

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The Work of Not Knowing with Marie Howe 57:42

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For Marie Howe, poetry is a form of prayer. “It is a way of quieting down to listen to that still, small voice,” she told Tricycle. “It’s about something ineffable that’s trying to find its way through the poem.” Howe is currently the poet in residence at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.…

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Bad Fang Chewy: The Director's Chomp 33:32

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! “Bad Fang Chewy: The Director’s Chomp,” Episode 207, Perswayssick Radio: Unearthly Comedy, by Vicki Solá 🎧In this laugh-packed episode of Perswayssick Radio: Unearthly Comedy, Earthling DJ Nicki Rodriguez is stuck in the surreal dimension of Perswayssick County—and things just …

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A Fearless Heart with Thupten Jinpa 1:11:08

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Thupten Jinpa is a Tibetan Buddhist scholar and former monk based in Montreal. Since 1985, he has served as the principal English translator for the Dalai Lama. In his 2015 book, A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives, he draws from his experience translating for and traveling with the Dalai Lama to lay out si…

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My Blue Kangaroo Will Eat Your Red Firetruck 19:24

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! “My Blue Kangaroo Will Eat Your Red Firetruck,” Episode 206 🚽Welcome back to that other dimension—where chaos is king and common sense has taken a long vacation. In this laugh-loaded sci-fi/fantasy/comedy podcast episode, we return to evil Nurse Maudlyn’s house of horrors at 66…

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Forever a Student with Sarah Ruhl 53:54

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Sarah Ruhl is a playwright, poet, and professor based in New York. Her new essay collection, Lessons from My Teachers: From Preschool to the Present, is an ode to the teachers she has had over the course of her life, both inside and outside the classroom. In this episode of Tricycle Talks, Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, sits down with R…

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Like a Duck on Fire 27:23

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! “Like a Duck on Fire,” Episode 205 🚨A Duck Driver?! 🎙️Welcome back to Perswayssick Radio: Unearthly Comedy, the interdimensional sci-fi/fantasy podcast where logic takes a nosedive and hilarity crash-lands! In this laugh-packed episode, Earthling DJ Nicki Rodriguez is stuck (li…

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An Irritable Typewriter Wearing a Red Dress Is Eating Dessert 16:38

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! “An Irritable Typewriter Wearing a Red Dress Is Eating Dessert,” Episode 204 🚽Welcome back to the chaotic alternate dimension of Perswayssick County, where disaster is always just a flush away! In this laugh-out-loud episode, “An Irritable Typewriter Wearing a Red Dress Is Eati…

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Personal Liturgy with Jefre Cantu-Ledesma 35:46

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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma is a multi-instrumentalist and composer, Zen priest, and hospice chaplain based in the Hudson Valley. Since his first foray into experimental music in the 1990s, he has been a pillar of the American music underground, collaborating with a variety of artists including Liz Harris, Félicia Atkinson, and Ilyas Ahmed. Although his mu…

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Too Bad, Three Eggs 23:31

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! “Two Bad, Three Eggs,” Episode 203, SEASON 21 OPENER 🌀 When your missing portfolio turns into a $10,000 interdimensional ransom...ya got problems! In this action-packed comedy/fantasy/sci-fi podcast episode, the multiverse is more dangerous than ever! Season 21 kicks off as Ear…

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How Compassion Works with John Makransky 1:11:59

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According to Lama John Makransky, everything we care about—including our mental and physical well-being, our relationships, our spiritual life, and our ability to act justly in the world—depends on our ability to access our innate capacities for love and compassion. In his new book, How Compassion Works: A Step-by-Step Guide to Cultivating Well-Bei…

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BONUS Episode: The Making of This Podcast 9:59

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! 🎉 Bonus Episode! The Making of This Podcast 🎉 Step into the absurd backstage of Perswayssick Radio: Unearthly Comedy! In this special bonus episode, creator and host Vicki Solá celebrates a major milestone—202 episodes and over 25,000 downloads—with a behind-the-scenes look at …

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Buddhist Masters of Modern China with Benjamin Brose 1:01:12

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Benjamin Brose is Professor of Buddhist and Chinese Studies and chair of the department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. His new book, Buddhist Masters of Modern China: The Lives and Legacies of Eight Eminent Teachers, explores the histories and teachings of eight masters who brought about a Buddhist revival during the…

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Trapped, Zapped & Glued 17:24

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! “Trapped, Zapped & Glued,” Episode 201 📺 In this wild and hilarious Perswayssick Radio: Unearthly Comedy episode, we flash back to the alternate dimension where egotistical canine-humanoid Diroctor Bizzig “Zig” Gneeecey and reluctant superhero Fleaglossitty “Flea” Floppinsplodg…

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Chaos Erupts on Planet Earth! Nicki's New Jersey Nightmare! 20:01

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! “Chaos Erupts on Planet Earth! Nicki’s New Jersey Nightmare!” Episode 200 🚨 Chaos erupts on Planet Earth! Nicki Rodriguez is back in New Jersey—well, kind of. After merging with her alternate-timeline self, she’s just trying to live a normal life. But when a shrill, otherworldl…

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The Greek King and the Buddhist Monk with Maria Heim 56:12

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The Questions of Milinda is one of the most renowned texts within Theravada Buddhism—and one of the most translated Buddhist texts around the world. The text follows a transformational philosophical dialogue between the Indo-Greek king Milinda and a Buddhist monk named Nagasena as they discuss the nature of the self, the meaning of renunciation, an…

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Goonafish Blues 11:00

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! "Goonafish Blues," Ep. 199 In this hilariously bizarre chapter of Perswayssick Radio: Unearthly Comedy, we return to the alternate timeline where rotten Nurse Maudlyn—still glued to her toilet—is tormented by her canine-humanoid captives, Sooperflea and Gneeecey. After serving …

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Remembering Our Belonging with Sebene Selassie 1:02:18

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As someone who has been living with cancer for nearly two decades, Sebene Selassie is no stranger to being with suffering. In her work as a writer and dharma teacher, Selassie focuses on how we can tap into a deeper sense of love and belonging in the face of pain, violence, and division. Her most recent book, You Belong: A Call for Connection, draw…

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You Broke It, You Bought It, Pt. 2 18:57

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! “You Broke It, You Bought It, Pt. 12” Ep. 198 🌧️ Nicki Rodriguez Returns to Earth… But Something’s Off! 🌀 | Comedy Sci-Fi Fantasy Podcast Episode In this surreal and stormy episode of our comedy/fantasy/sci-fi podcast, Earthling Nicki Rodriguez finally returns to her own world …

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Buddhist Poet Ocean Vuong on Failure, Redemption, and Second Chances 1:01:41

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For poet Ocean Vuong, the act of writing is inextricably linked to his Zen Buddhist practice. In a previous episode of Life As It Is, he told Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, and meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg that he believes the task of the writer is “to look long and hard at the most difficult part of the human condition—of samsara…

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You Broke It, You Bought It, Pt. 1 12:19

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! “You Broke It, You Bought It, Pt. 1,” Ep. 197 🚽✨ In this absurdly hilarious episode of our sci-fi comedy podcast, “You Broke It, You Bought It, Pt. 1,” chaos reigns as Sooperflea and Gneeecey have glued their captor—evil fugitive Nurse Maudlyn—to her own toilet using industrial…

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The Glue That Holds the Lousy Universe Together 14:25

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! “The Glue That Holds the Lousy Universe Together,” Ep.196 Welcome back to Perswayssick County, where chaos, comedy, and cosmic confusion collide! In this wildly funny and unpredictable episode, “The Glue That Holds the Lousy Universe Together,” madcap canine-humanoid Diroctor B…

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Vanishing Escape! 31:14

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! 🚨“Vanishing Escape!”🚨 Ep.195 🌀 In this thrilling episode of the Sooperflea & Gneeecey podcast, chaos reigns as the canine-humanoid duo vanishes from Nurse Maudlyn's grasp using mysterious vanishing cream! Meanwhile, in an alternate reality, earthling Nicki Rodriguez faces her m…

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Breathing Mindfulness with Sarah Shaw 57:36

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Over the course of the last hundred years, breathing mindfulness has become the most popular method of meditation around the world. Yet its history remains largely unrecorded. In her new book, Breathing Mindfulness: Discovering the Riches at the Heart of the Buddhist Path, scholar Sarah Shaw provides a historical survey of some of the methods of br…

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Waking Nightmare on Murgatroyd Avenue 19:07

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! “Waking Nightmare on Murgatroyd Avenue,” Ep.194 📜Nicki Rodriguez wakes up in Gneeecey’s tiny pet pup Oxymoron’s bizarre, interdimensional condo—cold, confused, and possibly broke. As she pieces together fragments of last night, battles goonafish memories, and endures freakishly…

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How to Stay Engaged without Burning Out with Daisy Hernández 56:09

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For the next few episodes of Life As It Is, Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, and meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg will be talking about specific themes that have been coming up in their practice, with a particular focus on navigating our current social and political climate. In this episode, they discuss how to stay engaged without burn…

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Gelatinous Coffee Catastrophe & Toothpaste Trouble 31:23

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! “Gelatinous Coffee Catastrophe & Toothpaste Trouble!” Ep.193 ✨ Hold on to your occasional chairs—it’s another wildly absurd adventure in Perswayssick County! In this out-of-this-galaxy episode of our comedy/fantasy/sci-fi podcast, Sooperflea and Gneeecey make a toothpaste-fuele…

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The Edge of Language with Arthur Sze 54:24

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For poet and translator Arthur Sze, poetry offers a way to ask difficult questions without any expectation of an answer. “It helps us slow down, hear clearly, see deeply, and envision what matters most in our lives,” he told Tricycle in a 2020 interview. “When one reads a poem, one has to pay attention to the sounds of words, to the rhythm of langu…

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Ya Can't Squeeze the Toothpaste Back Into the Tube 23:01

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! “Ya Can’t Squeeze the Toothpaste Back Into the Tube,” Ep.192 Welcome to another wild, laugh-out-loud adventure from the wacky universe of Gneeecey and Sooperflea! In this hilarious comedy/fantasy/sci-fi audio escapade, our clumsy canine-humanoid superhero, Fleaglossitty "Flea" …

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Mayhem, Mishaps, & Maudlyn 20:57

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! “Mayhem, Mishaps, & Maudlyn,” Ep.191 Get ready for a wild ride in this comedy, fantasy, and sci-fi adventure! When the slippery, scheming Nurse Maudlyn traps the tiny (but ever-resourceful) canine-humanoid Diroctor Bizzig “Zig” Gneeecey, chaos erupts at 666 Van Pooop Lane! 🚀💥 W…

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Classroom Mindfulness Put to the Test with Emma Varvaloucas 52:08

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Emma Varvaloucas is the executive director of the Progress Network, a nonprofit media organization that aims to take a constructive approach to solving some of our most intractable problems. In her article in the February issue of Tricycle called “Classroom Mindfulness Put to the Test,” she explores the surprising results of recent research on mind…

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Strange Sports, Slippery Stairs, & Stubborn Superheroes 27:27

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! Strange Sports, Slippery Stairs, & Stubborn Superheroes, Ep. 190 Get ready for a hilarious, dimension-bending escapade! Diroctor Bizzig “Zig” Gneeecey — a canine-humanoid with a knack for trouble — wakes up trapped in a jar after being abducted by the wicked Nurse Maudlyn. As Z…

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The Grieving Body with Mary-Frances O'Connor 1:13:44

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Grief is often thought of as a psychological phenomenon. Yet loss also has a profound impact on our bodies, often affecting our cardiovascular, endocrine, and immune systems. As a Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Arizona, Mary-Frances O’Connor specializes in studying the physiology of grief. In her new book, The …

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Tiny Trouble, Doppelgänger Drama, and The Grate Gizzy’s Chaos Café! 30:55

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! 🌌Tiny Trouble, Doppelgänger Drama, and The Grate Gizzy’s Chaos Café! 🍳 Ep. 189 🚀 Strap in for a side-splitting journey across dimensions! After shrinking to an unseeable size thanks to interdimensional "dimension burn," canine-humanoid Diroctor Bizzig “Zig” Gneeecey’s fate hang…

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A Journey through Buddhist History with Donald S. Lopez Jr. 44:15

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Donald S. Lopez Jr. is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan and a longtime Tricycle contributing editor. In his new book, Buddhism: A Journey through History, he lays out a comprehensive introduction to the history of Bud…

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Haywire ESP, Superhero Hiccups & Interdimensional Chaos 19:08

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! Haywire ESP, Superhero Hiccups & Interdimensional Chaos! 🚀😂✨ Ep. 188 Canine-humanoid Diroctor Bizzig "Zig" Gneeecey has a BIG problem—he's shrinking! As he dwindles to invisibility inside the Perswayssick County Courthouse, his not-so-trustworthy doppelgänger Ebegneeezer Geshun…

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Laser Standoffs, Superhero Shenanigans, and a Shrinking Crisis! 20:57

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! “Laser Standoffs, Superhero Shenanigans, and a Shrinking Crisis!” Ep. 187 In this laugh-out-loud, genre-bending episode of Perswayssick Radio: Unearthly Comedy, chaos reigns supreme at Perswayssick County’s top-secret Area Fifty-And-Four-Fourths! As interdimensional mishaps unf…

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Uprooting Harmful Habits with Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John 46:02

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Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John is a senior teacher in the Triratna Buddhist Community, and their work focuses on how Buddhist teachings can support a sustainable path to recovery. In their new book, First Aid Kit for the Mind: Breaking the Cycle of Habitual Behaviors, they lay out practical tools for uprooting harmful habits, building emotional re…

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Leader of His Own Free World 28:13

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! “Leader of his Own Free World,” Ep. 186 In this wild new episode of Perswayssick Radio: Unearthly Comedy, chaos reigns as a two-headed alien, a superhero duck, and power-hungry canine-humanoids battle over lost treasure, interdimensional mishaps, and an explosive custody disput…

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Planting the Seeds of Happy Relationships with Kimberly Brown 54:20

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Kimberly Brown is a meditation teacher and author based in New York City. In her new book, Happy Relationships: 25 Buddhist Practices to Transform Your Connections with Your Partner, Family, and Friends, she lays out a practical guide to help us cultivate and maintain healthy relationships with the people who matter most to us. In this episode of L…

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Space Ducks, Doppelgängers & Dimensional Chaos 24:57

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! “Space Ducks, Doppelgängers & Dimensional Chaos,” Ep. 185 As interdimensional chaos unfolds, canine-humanoid Diroctor Bizzig “Zig” Gneeecey, his doppelgänger Ebegneeezer Gesundheit Eeeceygnay, the ever-bumbling yet heroic Fleaglossitty “Sooperflea” Floppinsplodge, and the bewil…

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How to Lose Yourself with Jay Garfield 57:09

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No-self is a core teaching across Buddhist traditions. Yet what does it look like to actually live without a self? In How to Lose Yourself: An Ancient Guide to Letting Go, scholars Jay L. Garfield, Maria Heim, and Robert H. Sharf present a series of accessible and engaging translations of key Buddhist texts on why we are selfless persons—and why th…

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Is It Really Just a Dream... or Something More? 24:25

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! “Is It Really Just a Dream...or Something More?” Ep. 184 After a chaotic escape from Opposite Earth, canine-humanoids Diroctor Bizzig “Zig” Gneeecey, Ebegneeezer Gesundheit Eeeceygnay, and Fleaglossitty “Flea” Floppinsplodge—aka Sooperflea—find themselves back in the dimension …

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Thought You Saw the Last of Me? 19:50

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! “Thought You Saw the Last of Me?” Ep. 183 Surprises aplenty pepper this episode. Backs up against the proverbial wall, canine-humanoids Diroctor Bizzig “Zig” Gneeecey, “Flea” Fleaglossitty Floppinsplodge, AKA “Sooperflea,” and Gneeecey’s evil lookalike from Planet HyenaZitania,…

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Explosions Galore 12:44

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Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message! "Explosions Galore" – Episode 182 Back on her home planet Earth, human Nicki Rodriguez, who’s merged with her double, doesn’t realize she’s headed for a traumatic rendezvous with destiny. Simultaneously, in an alternate timeline on Opposite Earth, circumstances force canine-hum…

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Learning from Silence with Pico Iyer 56:12

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After his family home burned down in a California wildfire in the 1990s, journalist Pico Iyer found refuge in an unlikely location: a small Benedictine hermitage outside of Big Sur. Though Iyer initially arrived looking for a bed to sleep in, he soon found the silence of monastic life transformative, and over the course of the past thirty-three yea…