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- 2 days ago1h 2m
When "You" Drop Away, Only Trust Remains
"You" can never really trust this moment. And yet THIS, here, now, IS pure trust itself. A Friday Zen Live on the unconditional acceptance of what is, why the separate self can never surrender into this, the second arrow that never landed, and an old biker dude who took the longest dump in trail bathroom history 💩 Contact form, videos, links, and all the things here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 2 weeks ago1h 9m
Every Rose Has Its Thorn (Why Poison Was Basically The Buddha)
What goes up must come down, and for the spiritual seeker, that pendulation is one of the most specific and painful flavors of suffering there is. This Friday Zen LIVE from YouTube explores why the ups and downs are the same no-thing, what natural compassion looks like when you never practiced or play-acted it, Douglas Harding's headless way, and much more. Contact form, videos, links, and all the things here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 3 weeks ago1h 7m
The Mind Can Be A Real Bastard | Friday Zen, LIVE
My baby is now at senior prom, I got a splitting headache, and somehow this is the perfect moment to talk about no-thing-ness. A Friday Zen YouTube live (4/24/26) on retreats, the seeking apparatus burning out, no-thingness appearing as everything, and why the mind is a real a-hole 🕳️ Contact form, videos, links, and all the things here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 3 weeks ago1h 40m
All That Seeking Just To End Up HERE | Monday Zen, LIVE
Nina chose Vassar — and that news kicks off a wide-ranging Monday Zen live that covers a lot of ground. We start with the "spiritual journey" in full: from burning out as a doctor, to a spontaneous awakening in Las Vegas, to years of meditation, retreats, shadow work, and psychedelics, all of it eventually collapsing into the simple recognition that it was always just this. Along the way: why lying becomes nearly impossible when there's nothing left to protect, what every psychedelic from 5-MeO-DMT to Salvia Divinorum pointed at (spoiler: this), the honest question of whether awakening is liberation or just a very specific kind of dissociation, monogamy and marriage as story, why spiritual authority dissolves completely at some point, and how the whole journey lands you right back where you started ...except the circle never quite closes. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Apr 18, 20261h 0m
Hogwarts vs. The Hard Knock Life? Our College Tour Story!
Just got back from spring break touring colleges with my oldest ZPupp (yeah, wasn't she just a frickin' BABY yesterday?). Rochester, Vassar, and NYU. This episode is the full debrief...the steel cut oats, the Hogwarts campus, the NYU dean who told an auditorium full of accepted students and families that it's depressing to be poor, and what all of it reveals about ambition, projection, and just letting life life itself since the script is already written, bruh. Full video, originally LIVE on YouTube, here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Apr 2, 20261h 27m
Everything Seems Fine, And Yet... | April Fools Zen, LIVE
From BTS documentaries to grieving your own college experience through your kid's eyes, life keeps surfacing exactly what needs to be seen. An April Fools live conversation that somehow landed on death, freedom, and the scrote-sichord 🤭 Topics: The Dr. Oz April Fools Prank — A Fond Memory BTS Documentary: Schmos, Celebrities, and the Cosmic Joke "Everything Seems Fine and Yet" — What's Been Coming Up Nina's College Stuff What I Actually Felt at 18 — Grieving the College Experience UC Berkeley: The Real Story Professor Fristrom and the Lab That Saved Me It's Never About Someone Else — It's Always About You Era Ending or Projection? The Party Degree I Never Got to Have Everything You Ever Learned Is Happening Now The 529 Account Question and the Opportunity Cost of College What If You Just Invested the Tuition Money Instead? Waking Up, Growing Up, Showing Up — Ken Wilber and the Story Models All Beliefs Are Provisional — Go Down the Rabbit Hole, Then Let Go The FIRE Movement and the Trap of Seeking Freedom Spiritual Bypassing: You Can't Actually Do It What's Your Biggest Fixation That's Left? The Trap of "Someday I'll Be Free" What Happens When You Die? Kids and the Double Arrow of Suffering Stage Models of Awakening — Useful Until They're Not How Long Do You Meditate? Zero. Everything Is a Meditation. A Medical School Musical Interlude ADHD, Psychiatric Labels, and Just Zubining Is Awakening Even Desirable? Awakening as Death Followed Immediately by Hilarity From the Outside It Looks Like Existential Crisis — And That's Exactly Right Is "We" Closer to Truth Than "I"? Religious Awakening vs. Non-Dual Awakening — Same Flavor, Different Tradition "How Is This Here the Same as This There?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Mar 30, 20261h 9m
Crashing through every branch on the Tree of Belief | Saturday Zen, LIVE
This is just DUMB SIMPLE...so much so that the mind that always wants to know, always wants to make sense, simply won't believe it. From 3am despair during college admissions season to spontaneous tears on the leg press, life keeps showing up as exactly what it is. Original YouTube live video here. College admissions process and Nina's New York school visits Waking up at 3am — absorbing stress and feeling it fully Why meditation techniques eventually stop arising on their own Non-dumbality: reality as too simple and ordinary for any concept to touch The Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path — why the Buddha gave instructions at all The "fake it till you make it" paradox of spiritual practice Crying at the gym and spontaneous emotional release Who or what is choosing what happens next? The tree of belief metaphor — falling through branches on the way down Nothing is hidden: object permanence as a functional lie Zen stink and the spiritual ego that thinks it woke up What awakening actually means (and why the story collapses) Angelo, gratitude, and why spiritual content no longer lands Ram Dass on other people's awakening being none of your business Gratitude roll call to those who "taught" me What's actually being transmitted in these live shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Mar 24, 20261h 15m
The Imaginarium | Monday Zen, LIVE
Nothing arrives. Nothing persists. And you were never behind. Monday Zen Live, original YouTube conversation here. 0:00 Welcome & The Imaginarium — Why the World Is a Story 1:38 Krishnamurti's "Filthy Word" and Taking the Story Sincerely 4:05 When the Whole Thing Just Drops 6:13 Absolute Freefall — This Is Pure Unadulterated Chaos 7:49 Nothing Ever Arrives Before It's Gone 9:18 Descartes Got It Almost Right — But Not Quite 11:43 Staring at a Blue Sky: The Instability of Appearance 13:02 Emptiness Isn't Magical 14:43 Is This Too Extreme a Negation? 16:05 Love Is Real — But Not How You Think 18:10 Awareness Isn't Fundamental — A Bone to Pick 20:05 Dogs Don't Live in the Imaginarium 22:06 You Don't Have to Believe Me — Let Go of Belief Entirely 23:24 Whatever Is Arising Right Now? That's It. 25:27 Why Unknowing Gets Rejected — By Society and the Ego 27:13 Always Exactly Where We Need to Be 27:38 The 5-MeO-DMT Realization: Nowhere to Go, Nothing to Seek 29:04 Perfect Days — A Film About Total Liberation 29:36 When the Dream Character Wakes Up (and Gets a Spiritual Ego) 34:33 Appearance Noticing Itself as Appearance 35:52 Isness, Thusness, Beingness — Words Pointing at Nothing 44:43 Why Zubin Blocked All Spiritual Content 47:38 How AI Pointed Back to the Unknowable 49:34 The Spiritual Entertainment Industrial Complex 52:06 Does Zubin Want More Followers? 54:22 Why He Stopped Practicing Medicine 1:04:08 Spiritual Apologism and the Self-Deception of Influence 1:03:00 Mark and Sharon at Chemo — What Live Is Really For 1:10:13 When You Cringe at Your Own Words (And When You Don't) 1:12:09 Wrap-Up & Peace Out Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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