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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast

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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast explores the world of contemporary western Buddhism in all its facets, mixing in banter with analysis. Now living @NewBooksNetwork

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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Men will learn eventually, and if they insist on rejecting the received wisdom of generations past, they do not thereby succeed at invalidating it; they merely condemn themselves to learning it, time and again, by ever grimmer experience.” Hilaire Belloc
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In an age of intolerable stupidity, there's opportunity for genius & creativity to emerge: it cannot do so by parroting the message of in-groups or mimicking the behavior of conformists. Whether in artistic or intellectual culture, we need creative genius as much as we ever have.
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The real question is: what remains after narcissism?
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
“It was, for a while, a beautiful dream and I happily inhabited it.”
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” Goethe
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” Goethe
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Characteristics that define our hyper-real age; Neo-tribalism, emotive reasoning, chronic cognitive biases, unearned self-righteousness, hedonistic presentism, rapid onset amnesia, black & white thinking, conspiratorially flavored assumptions, addiction to hyper-stimulation, bad attitudes.
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Characteristics that define our hyper-real age; Neo-tribalism, emotive reasoning, chronic cognitive biases, unearned self-righteousness, hedonistic presentism, rapid onset amnesia, black & white thinking, conspiratorially flavored assumptions, addiction to hyper-stimulation, bad attitudes.
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Ideas matter. This guy's ideas are all over the shop and out there and have landed in the lap of America's most unstable president and his main influences. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Move fast, break everything: Nick Land and accelerationism - ABC listen
Nick Land is one of the more interesting contemporary philosophers, and one of the most disturbing. This week we're talking with the author of a new book that sets out Land's ideas, from cybernetic ca...
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Unfashionable idea 537: For Searle, knowledge is most likely to be advanced through free inquiry, and claims to knowledge can only be validated (as opposed to dogma or speculation) as knowledge by being subject to the tests of free inquiry. 🧐🤔🎆
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
To politicize everything is to exhibit pure hubris: "I am so confident in my partisan beliefs that I believe the world should be remade in accordance with them." You're one step removed from primates; you're not a god. Learn the meaning, explore the depths, of 'humility'.
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
"The first thing to do is not to provide a 'practical' solution. Don't act. Just think. The biggest danger today is to be dragged into 'doing'—to act, to intervene—to avoid the confrontation with the fact that we don’t really know what is going on." Žižek
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
We use to be the tools of the powerful; now, we're the tools, or useful idiots, of algorithms and collective infantilism. A motto for our age might be: "Anything but have to think, carefully!"
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
“No amount of evidence will ever persuade a fool” Mark Twain www.youtube.com/watch?v=m41Z...
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Stealers Wheel - Stuck in The Middle With You HQ
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
We always start with ourselves. We are not a problem to be fixed with endless techniques, but a living being that must bring practices into its own life and personalize them so they become real, and not the performance of an ideal person we hope to become.
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Prof | Dr Anna Sergi @annasergi.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Thank you to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social and Miranda Melcher for the chat about my How To Recognize the Mafia Abroad Episodes wherever you get your podcast open.spotify.com/episode/6207...
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Anna Sergi, "How to Recognize the Mafia Abroad: Critical Notes on ‘ndrangheta Mobility" (Policy Press, 2025)
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
(1) The concept of a hyper-ideologization of existence describes a state where every facet of human life—from the coffee you drink to the words you use in private—becomes a political or ideological statement. It is the collapse of the "private sphere" into the "political sphere."
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
(2) In this state, nothing is neutral. Existence itself is no longer lived; it is performed and judged through the lens of a specific worldview.
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
You, dear follower, can find all our past episodes by heading down this digital rabbit hole: newbooksnetwork.com/category/aca... We've been less active of late but there are plans for a new season of more radical content.
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Emotional self-restraint is key to reducing suffering in this world. Emotional determination is mostly the product of ignorance. What stories about emotions and feelings have our dominant ideologies been telling? Do they have anything to say about self-restraint?
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
"The end is in the beginning and yet you go on." Samuel Beckett
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
My friend Franco likes to argue that dividing the world between left and right is no longer a valuable means for making sense of the world we inhabit. Far better to divide it between the unthinking and ignorant, and those capable of thinking beyond their ideological obsessions. What do you think?
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
When an ideology repeatedly intrudes into people’s life uninvited, through bloodshed and intimidation, lies and deception indifference ceases to be a neutral position.
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
The many universes theory has convinced me for a while: why would evolution produce one universe when an infinite number would produce infinite evolution? Unless you dispute infinity, there is no reason to believe existence is contained by a single emergence. spectator.com/article/davi...
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David Deutsch: The Enlightenment, 'irrational memes' and how Wikipedia turned woke
The Amazon reviews for David Deutsch’s The Beginning of Infinity don’t alert you to the fact that this is a book on theoretical physics. They sound more like a weepy divorcé’s YouTube comments below a...
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
My friend Franco likes to argue that dividing the world between left and right is no longer a valuable means for making sense of the world we inhabit. Far better to divide it between the unthinking and ignorant, and those capable of thinking beyond their ideological obsessions. What do you think?
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
"Everything has already been said. But since no one listens it is necessary to say it again." Andre Gide
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
"Everything has already been said. But since no one listens it is necessary to say it again." Andre Gide
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Music that makes life seem deeply precious for a moment. youtu.be/Wk02R4UNE3k
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Nils Frahm - Them
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Music that makes life seem deeply precious for a moment. youtu.be/Wk02R4UNE3k
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Nils Frahm - Them
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
"The end is in the beginning and yet you go on." Samuel Beckett
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Modern meditation music for the culturally curious. youtu.be/VV-aPK2Gsbk
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The Field - Made Of Steel, Made Of Stone
YouTube video by Raúl H. Cortés
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The mind symbolised.
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Modern meditation music for the culturally curious. youtu.be/VV-aPK2Gsbk
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The Field - Made Of Steel, Made Of Stone
YouTube video by Raúl H. Cortés
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Crow Series 05
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast @imperfectbuddha.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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