David Nichtern – Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck – Settling into Practice, A Buddhist View with Michael Kammers

The CSM Podcast is back with a Dharma talk from David Nichtern about stepping onto the path of meditation and settling into practice.

It is the new year, now is the time to sit down, settle in and dig into mindfulness and meditation practice. The question is, what are you doing that gets in the way of your practice taking root? In this episode, David offers wisdom that every beginning or struggling meditator needs to hear.

“There is another expression of practice, ‘Hasten slowly and you will soon arrive.’ There is a built-in tension between our momentum to try not to be where we are… and this instinct that is coming in just to settle in and be who we are; where we are; when we are. We are going to let that play out a little bit… We are not necessarily going to outsmart it – manipulate it and bend it to our will – and then on the other hand we are not going to be able to avoid it. Then you are in the sweet spot, and I think that is a kind of texture of practice that is very powerful.” – David Nichtern 

On January 10th, take the opportunity to learn about Dharma Moon’s Yearlong Buddhist Studies course beginning in January 2023: FREE YEARLONG BUDDHIST STUDIES INFO SESSION WITH ETHAN NICHTERN, SHANNON WATTS, and SHELLY TYGIELSKI 
Ethan Nichtern offers wisdom for cultivating a sustainable meditation practice on The Road Home Podcast Ep.31

About David Nichtern: 

David Nichtern, founder of Dharma Moon, is a senior Buddhist teacher who has been practicing and teaching meditation for over 40 years.

He was one of the initial American students of renowned meditation master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and studied closely with him soon after his arrival in the United States in 1970. He is also a business consultant with companies creating a variety of offerings integrating meditation in a larger health and well-being context – including Goldman Sachs, Journey Meditation, Creative Live, True Nature Meditation (Tokyo), Balanced Athlete, The Center for Health & Healing, Om Births, and Kobre & Kim law firm among others.

He has been featured in The New York Times, FOX News, Netflix’s The Midnight Gospel, Huffington Post, The Buddhist Geeks podcast, Duncan Trussell Family Hour Podcast, Pete Holmes’ You Made it Weird Podcast, and many others. David is the author of the critically acclaimed Awakening From the Daydream: Reimagining The Buddha’s Wheel of Life and his recently released Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck. He mentors individual students both in person and online, and leads meditation teacher training programs around the world.

David is also a multiple Grammy-nominated and Emmy award-winning musician. He has recorded and played with Stevie Wonder, Christopher Guest, Jerry Garcia, Lana Del Rey, Maria Muldaur, Paul Simon and many others. Among his many credits in records, film and TV, David wrote the classic song “Midnight at the Oasis” and has produced multiple records for and periodically tours with Grammy-nominated kirtan artist Krishna Das.

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