josh dippold

Podcast | Spontaneity

Topics from this recorded November 12, 2022 Insight Timer Live event include:

Overplanning, Fun, Expectation, Balance, Squirrels, Making deliberate small differences for bigger changes to occur, Comfort zone, Awkwardness, David Lynch art, Spontaneous Combustion, Zen Masters, Self-control, Self-awareness, Restraint, Spice of life, Outsourcing life to entertainers, Looking at the clock, Travel, Things in life happening beyond our wildest dreams and goals, Causes and conditions, Habits, Stability, Intention, Neuroplasticity, Stumble Upon, Ambidexterity, Drawing exercise without looking, Having no structure or stability

Towards Mastering Holiday “Celebrations” | 12/21/2022 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #04

[12/22/2022 Update: Oops it looks like I accidentally sent out the previous episode for this podcast, but it’s been updated on WordPress as of around 8pm Central] In this fourth installment of the ongoing live series with Wendy Nash inquiring into meditation practice on and off the cushion, we planed to, and did look quiteContinue reading “Towards Mastering Holiday “Celebrations” | 12/21/2022 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #04″

Podcast | Practical Purity

[December 4, 2022 Update: Originally published November 11th, 2022 it’s being republished with a new date due to recent podcast publishing challenges and requirements] I pitched the October 30th, 2022 Insight Timer live event Practical Purity thus: What’s the importance of true purity? How can we view purity and what can we realistically think, sayContinue reading “Podcast | Practical Purity”

(Mapped) (Star)gates, Grids, Portals, Hubs, Pillars, Networks And Vortex Locations

The Override Pillar Gates or Reuche Pillars “are from the God worlds that serve to stabilize the planetary merkaba shields under great duress, were placed during the crisis intervention that began the Guardian Christos mission of Ascension Plan B”: 1D Atlantic Ocean off coast of Sierra Leone, Africa2D Atlantic west of Conakry, Guinea, West Africa3DContinue reading “(Mapped) (Star)gates, Grids, Portals, Hubs, Pillars, Networks And Vortex Locations”

Podcast | Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu Questions

[12/10/2022 UPDATE: This post was originally published 1/23/2022. I recently discovered that at that time I did not include the audio file here for the podcast so I had to change the blog post publishing date in order for WordPress to push this out as a new podcast.] Five short excerpts of some questions IContinue reading “Podcast | Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu Questions”

Ambiguity & Uncomfortable Truths | 11/30/2022 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #03

Before this chat Wendy said, and I agreed, unless there are live questions we perhaps ought to chat about “how to practice with ambiguity, uncomfortable truths, people we love but don’t like their ways or words, navigating guilt, shame, humiliation, privilege. . . The problem of wanting to be good, right, ethical, when these areContinue reading “Ambiguity & Uncomfortable Truths | 11/30/2022 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #03”

An Integrating Presence Meditation: Awareness And Sublime Abidings — December 15, 2022, At Rootbound

Join meditation 6:00pm – 7:00pm Central Thursday, December 15th at Rootbound [https://facebook.com/rootboundstl] on Main Street in St Charles, Missouri and via Insight Timer live: https://insig.ht/NjzXcVjfcv

Depending on what seems most appropriate and needed meditative guidance will be provided for the sublime abidings of loving-kindness, compassion, vicarious joy and/or equanimity for part of the time as well as perhaps awareness practice(s) like mindfulness of body, feeling, mind, mind objects, and/or awareness itself.

Irregular Inquires — ‘Let None Deceive Another’

‘Let none deceive another, or despise any being in any state.’ from the metta sutta Does this line in the metta Sutta — ‘Let none deceive another, or despise any being in any state.’ — mean action should be taken (to prevent deception)? If so, how and to what extent? (Deception often happens as protectionContinue reading “Irregular Inquires — ‘Let None Deceive Another’”

What Is Meditation? | 11/2/2022 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #02

We primarily address what meditation actually is while spiraling up, around and back on this topic to also include, amongst others: examples of what is and isn’t meditation; mind training; intention; familiarity with the mind; heart qualities; wisdom; aspiration; samatha; ego; Chittamatra or Yogācāra via the statement “emotions are thoughts”; scoundrels; conceit; foolishness; belonging; emotional mirroring; etc.