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Listen to the DharmaRealm, a Religion & Spirituality podcast by Harry Bridge and Scott Mitchell. Stream 100 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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Podcasting while sheltering in place. We’re going to restart the DharmaRealm, recording via Zoom, shorter episodes, and posting here,...

The nerds nerd out about nerdy things! Specifically, a couple of Buddhist Studies scholars (nerds) discuss (nerd out) what it means to be a...

It’s our second episode with our special guest, Dr. Natalie Fisk Quli. We’re continuing our conversation about authenticity, this time aroun...

We’ve got a special guest today! Dr. Natalie Fisk Quli is a teacher at the Institute of Buddhist Studies , author, and co-editor of a couple...

In a weird way, this is sort of part-two of our post-truth conversation since we’re tackling a perennial problem in the contemporary study a...

I didn’t want to talk about flat earth or post-truth or aliens! But Harry made me! Anyway. If you listen to this episode, you’ll get an earf...

Faith! We’re bouncing off a question about faith in our personal experience with Buddhism. Now, we know that having said faith, half of you...

A little while back we did an episode on no self and identity — and what do you know? It was wildly popular. Go us. So we decided to come ba...

Somewhat in response to a listener question, we dive into the question of practice versus academic study. Is there a difference between acad...

Hooray! It’s been ten years since we started this show, and this is our 100th episode! We hit the highlights in this one, themes and topics...

In today’s episode, we respond to a listener question about the possibility, in Shin Buddhism, of reconciling the concept of no-self (anatma...

Scott’s still got a cold! And he’s a cranky old man who wants to argue with people! So today we’ll try to come up with the Buddhist answer t...

For our first full episode of 2018 we tackle a listener question about Buddhism and social justice, jumping off from the tension between acc...

We’re back! Here’s a teaser to wet your appetite. We’ve got a couple of other episodes in the can that we’ll release...

One more episode recorded in October before the election but on a topic that will most certainly continue to be of importance in the year ah...

Happy Christmas (if that’s your thing – if not then Happy Winter Holiday of Your Choosing)! So, head’s up. We recorded this episode wa...

Announcement : we’re doing a “live” show on Saturday August 20 during the CBE’s Pacific Seminar. Check out the the CBE’s website for more in...

Right off the bat, pretty sure I goofed the origin story of the word “meh” and its reference in The Simpsons . I’m sure someone out there wi...

Buddhism and Introspection: in which we ramble on for a time about the extent to which Buddhism is introspective, about controlling, watchin...

Jumping off from our conversation about utopia and Star Trek from our last episode, this time around we’re diving deep into questions of bel...

I’ll be honest. We spent the first half of this episode geeking out on Star Trek, talking about how this vision of a utopian future hinges o...

Picking up where we left off (in our D&D episode), we wrestle again with the questions and challenges of Buddhist ethics. We begin with the...

That title should really be “Dungeons and Dragons (and Ethics).” Or “D&D, Star Wars, and Cats (with some Buddhism sprinkled in).” In our fir...

The rumors of deaths have been greatly exaggerated.

In response to a listener question, we discuss the variety of Pure Land practices outside the Shin and Japanese traditions. We begin by noti...

Following up on our conversation from last time, we tackle a list of listener questions that we thought would be simple but took us off in r...

In response to a bunch of listener questions that we thought would be pretty straightforward, we bring you several episodes to discuss, firs...

Reflecting on the sad news of Rev. Dr. Taitetsu Unno’s passing this past month, we thought we’d do a special short episode to acknowledge hi...

Okay. Some big questions this time around, none of which we’re gonna answer but we have a good time talking around the issues. Does (Shin) B...

We’re doing a post-modern meta show about the show where we talk about the show. It’s been six years, this is episode number eighty, and we...

Just gonna say it up front: Harry’s on fire in these episodes, saying some profound stuff! In this final installment of our reflections on S...

We take up the issue from last time, wandering around the historical circumstances of exclusive practice, Kamakura-era Buddhist schools, dea...

Hey! Check out that new theme song! We finally get around to doing some recording and answering some listener questions, this one about the...

Our third and final episode with special guest Mushim Ikeda from the East Bay Meditation Center . In this show, we use the current popularit...

Here’s part two of our conversation with Mushim Ikeda of the East Bay Meditation Center . We jump right in from where we left off in the las...

Today is part one of a three-part series of episodes featuring our very first special guest star, Mushim Ikeda. Mushim is a Buddhist teacher...

We’re not talking about magicians, we’re talking about ritual and whether or not there is some efficacious power inherent in Buddhist ritual...

One of the issues that came up in our last conversation was the idea of “original enlightenment,” or the idea that from an enlig...

Is the BCA silent on issues of social justice? For many, it might seem like there’s no Shin Buddhist public voice in the American disc...

In prepping for our last episode on how to do Shin Buddhist practice, we started thinking about why people do practice and the question of m...

We’re back! And we’re taking up a listener question about practicing Buddhism when you’re not near a Shin community, so we...

We round out our conversation about music by focusing on Shin Buddhism, starting with Shinran. It’s clear chanting was an important pa...

In part two of our discussion of Buddhism and music, we talk (mostly) about the potential genre of “Buddhist music.” Genre is a...

We’ve got a long-standing interest in music; coincidentally, a listener asked us a question about music on Facebook, so we took the su...

“ Won’t somebody please think of the children! ” This week we take up the tension in Buddhism between the ideal of monasti...

Let’s pick up where we left off ; last time we discussed how contemporary Shin Buddhists can make the teachings and practices applicab...

Prompted by a listener who’s interested in how Buddhist teachings and practices change over time, in this episode we take up the tensi...

Today we go down the rabbit hole of the Tannisho, the so-called razor text of Shin Buddhism, a text that can cut away misunderstandings, or...

In this episode, Scott complains about the media! Seriously, though, bouncing from the last episode that dealt with the commodification and...

Someone tried to sell some shoes with an image of the Buddha on them. And, boy, were Buddhists mad about it! This is our jumping off point f...
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