After recording an interview with Tom Walters of the Zen Commuter podcast in February 2024 the episode #2077 is finally out! Thanks so much to Tom and all the great work he does around the many worlds of meditation and beyond.
https://www.zencommuter.com/blog/2077
Here’s his show notes for it:
Today I share with you my interview with Josh Dippold. He is one of the hosts of the Integrating Presence Podcast along with Wendy Nash. Together they help us learn the benefits of a meditation practice. Which is something that Josh does on his own as well as an instructor on Insight Timer
(Wendy actually only co-hosts the roughly monthly “Meditation Q & A” (the rest is mostly me not counting past co-hosts of “Ask Us Anything” which morphed into the “Meditation Q & A.”
Also, if anything, at the time of this post, I’m only doing “instructing” online to those I haven’t met (yet) in real life so I guess that’s a type of “instructor.” Due to current life circumstances it is not easily possible to do so in real life being more of a nomad for the time being)
Tom also guested on the Integrating Presence podcast in April:
Here’s some cobbled together and edited AI summarizations our conversation on the Zen Commuter podcast:
Josh Dippold appeared as a guest on the Zen Commuter Podcast, where he discussed his meditation journey, which began in 2012 during a low point in his life. Through a committed daily practice, he experienced profound personal transformation, including heart openings, mystical experiences, and deep psychological healing.
During the conversation, Josh shared insights about the challenges of maintaining a consistent meditation practice, the societal push toward busyness which often conflicts with the stillness that meditation cultivates, and the value of radical acceptance. He also explored the masculine approach to care and examining comfort zones to bring inner peace to life’s adversities.
Josh emphasized the importance of seeing reality as it truly is, practicing compassion, and staying connected with one’s core values. He also discussed his ongoing work with Integrating Presence and the development of his podcast, Inner Skilled.
Also delved into was how meditation shifts perception over time helping people connect to a broader sense of interconnectivity and a deeper understanding of reality beyond societal illusions.
Other guest appearances:
(Mostly) Unedited Transcript via https://restream.io/tools/transcribe-audio-to-text:
Life is so much fuller when you are calmer, wiser, and happier. If sounds good to you, sit back and enjoy another relaxing episode of Zen Commuter. Good morning, travelers, and welcome to your morning zen commute. I am your host, Tom Walters, and this is Zencommuter, your meditation podcast aimed at moving you forward peacefully, helping you live a calmer, more satisfying life. Today, I am very excited to bring to you my interview with Josh Dippold.
He, like myself, is a meditation instructor who is featured on Insight Timer. And while he does have a longer biography on Insight Timer, the last line is what is most telling about him. He values truth, wisdom, kindness, compassion, courage, empowerment, realizing awakening, and being free. That is one powerful list of 8 that I can totally get behind. You’ll hear about those things and many more in this interview.
So sit back and enjoy my interview with Josh Dippold. I begin our interview much like I do many, asking about Josh’s meditation journey, what led him to meditating, how long he’s been doing it, and where he learned. Well, I’m kinda more typical in that regard that I came through what’s called the dukkha door, and this is the term in in Buddhist terminology. Stress is probably the easiest way to do it. Suffering is a really strong term in the west, but we’ve all experienced really intense periods of really badness.
And, you know, just even on the subtler levels, unsatisfactoriness or, you know, this not okayness. And so that’s what drove me to it. And that’s more typical what I hear of meditators too. This was in, 2012. I had actually hit rock bottom in, my life at that point.
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