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The Scholar-Practitioner - A Conversation with Judith Simmer-Brown

Tue, Dec 11, 2007

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Buddhist GeeksThis week on Buddhist Geeks we aired the 1st part of a conversation that I recorded with Buddhist teacher Judith Simmer-Brown. Judith teaches graduate courses at Naropa, and I was fortunate enough to take a class with her my last semester there. The class was on The First Turning of Buddhism, specifically focusing on the early Buddhist teachings, especially as they got filtered through Vasabandu and the Abhidharma-kosha and Buddhaghosa and the Visuddhimagga. Geeky stuff!

In this first half of our conversation we discussed the notion of a “scholar-practitioner”–one who unifies the domains of study and practice in their overall path. Since I consider myself to be a pseudo-scholar (at the very least I’m a geek) and a committed practitioner I found this topic very engaging. Check it out here:

Also, I showed up as a guest on Conscious Business this week (although I didn’t say all that much), in a talk with friend Matt Westgate. We talked about the virtual companies and the value of being small and great, instead of large and lumbering. It was a fun talk, and Matt is a fantastic dude. Listen to that talk here:

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Vince Horn lives as a modern monk. He spends part of his year in silence, meditating, introspecting, and developing spiritually. The rest of the time he spends engaged in the world, where he produces and hosts the popular show, Buddhist Geeks, works in the production department of the spiritual publishing company Sounds True, and writes for various publications—including on his personal blog Numinous Nonsense—and enjoys living in Boulder, Colorado with his wife Emily. Read his full bio here.

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