Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan
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Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan
David Germano - Ancient wisdom for modern (and future) flourishing
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Ryan McGranaghan
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Season 9
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Episode 3
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David Germano is an educator, scientist, and renown Tibetologist. But to let his life and work be merely a list would be an irreparable simplification, inappropriate as framing for this conversation, and a blindness to the genuine teachings of care and loving-kindness that can be found and felt from deep in his work.
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Show Notes:
- Rainer Maria Rilke (05:20)
- Gül Dölen and 'critical period' Nardou et al., 2023 (14:30)
- Tibetan idea of breakthrough - Tregchö (16:00)
- Dzogchen (16:30)
- micro-phenomenology and Claire Petitmengin (19:30)
- the Four Noble Truths (24:00)
- Buddhist notion of emptiness (25:20)
- David's dissertation & Geshe Lhundub Soba (27:20)
- conception of flourishing (34:00)
- The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman (39:50)
- Danielle Allen (41:00)
- the wisdom of difference (42:00)
- Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida (49:00)
- Martin Heidegger (52:00)
- collectives (53:00)
- Truth and Method by Hans-Georg Gadamer (55:50)
- Li-Young Lee (01:01:00)
- Paul Farmer and moral clarity (01:10:00)
- what does it mean to flourish? (01:11:00)
- Dacher Keltner (01:18:00)
- Émile Durkheim and Collective effervescence (01:19:30)
- "The Next Buddha May Be a Sangha" by Thich Nhat Hanh (01:20:00)
- Lightning Round (01:20:00)
- Book: Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Passion: Tibetan music (John Flower)
- Heart sing: deep pursuit of understanding contemplation
- Screwed up: assuming everyone else was fully and truly committed to the mission
- Find David online:
- UVA
- the Tibet Center (www.uvatibetcenter.org)
- the Tibetan and Himalayan Library (THL, www.thlib.org)
- Contemplative Sciences Center
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