Buddhist Geeks

07/22/2026

"Vince Fakhoury Horn speaks with Mushim Patricia Ikeda about working class dharma—from growing up as 'the minority of Greensburg, Ohio' in a third-generation Japanese American family, to training in penniless Korean Zen temples where renovating the building was the practice. Along the way: bliss bunnies, samadhi junkies, mutual aid networks, and why affordability may be the grassroots issue of 2026."

Korean Zen, mutual aid, and the comfort problem in convert Buddhism

07/03/2026

"The cost of truth is the cost of silence paid with interest.” – Daniel Klein

Genocide starts at the dinner table, not in the halls of politics.

04/01/2026

Learning to Meet Suffering Without Losing Yourself

Learning to Meet Suffering Without Losing Yourself

03/09/2026

"If AI has the capacity to accelerate delusion, then it also has the capacity to accelerate awakening."

02/28/2026

"All of your fears will come to pass. And not only is it going to be okay, but everything that you were actually looking for, that you were really yearning for, lies on the other end of it." — Daniel Klein

02/27/2026

"It might be evil, but it is not uniquely evil, and it is certainly not outside of my own capacity." — Daniel Klein

02/26/2026

"Very often the cost of the pain that we're sitting with is not as great as the cost of the truth. So we'll continue to be in pain until we can't anymore." — Daniel Klein

02/25/2026

"This was a journey of how I came to see the Palestinians as humans. And in order to get to the place where I could see them as humans, I first had to discover my own humanity." — Daniel Klein

12/13/2025

Jhāna isn’t the point, sharpening the mind is.

Watch the full episode online: https://www.jhana.online/p/these-are-the-four-jhanas