{"podcast":{"title":"Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck with David Nichtern","slug":"creativity-spirituality-making-a-buck-with-david-nichtern-92367","podcast_index_feed_id":92367,"rss_url":"https://rss.art19.com/creativity-sprituality-making-a-buck-with-david-nichtern","website_url":"https://art19.com/shows/creativity-sprituality-making-a-buck-with-david-nichtern","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/96/1c/49/15/961c4915-4613-4357-ac09-be11e7b66c05/947c0bdac7a75e85f9355ab94b78da58452763a107673871174a168a45e9cf7df31e8f5adb0c2e89027f810fe1644f065d6aab534d70c32d92357a72059340f9.jpeg","author":"Be Here Now Network","episode_count":90,"summary":"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…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-18T06:21:04.603400+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/creativity-spirituality-making-a-buck-with-david-nichtern-92367"},"episode":{"title":"Ep. 69 – Rude Awakenings: Walking the Buddhist Path with Samuel Bercholz","slug":"ep-69-rude-awakenings-walking-the-buddhist-path-with-samuel-bercholz","published_at":"2026-08-27T22:15:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/creativity-spirituality-making-a-buck-with-david-nichtern-92367/ep-69-rude-awakenings-walking-the-buddhist-path-with-samuel-bercholz","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/creativity-spirituality-making-a-buck-with-david-nichtern-92367","url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/ed686137-6836-4b50-8f96-5463b86e4694.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","audio_url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/ed686137-6836-4b50-8f96-5463b86e4694.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"Founder of Shambhala Publications, Samuel Bercholz, reflects on a lifetime of dharma and encourages us to challenge our often distorted perceptions of reality.  Check out Dharma Moon’s free online talk this September, Light & Shadow on the Spiritual Path .  This time on the CSM podcast, Samuel and David explore: Samuel’s new book, Rude Awakenings: An Unconventional Guide to the Buddhist Path Shaking up our concepts of reality and social phenomena  Working with our addictions and habits The unpredictability and spontaneous manifestations of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche Learning how to walk the Bodhisattva path Intergenerational dharma and having an enlightened family  Practical Buddhism and simply being ‘dharmic and decent’  How Buddhism has traveled from East to West  Sign up for Dharma Moon’s world-class 100-hour mindfulness meditation teacher training and join Dharma Moon this fall to learn about The Business of Teaching Meditation . About Samuel Bercholz: Sam Bercholz is the founder of Shambhala Publications, one of the leading independent publishers of Buddhist and Eastern spiritual literature. He started the company in Berkeley in the late 1960s and later moved it to Boulder, Colorado, where it grew into a major publishing house for authors like Chögyam Trungpa and Pema Chödrön. A senior teacher in the Nyingma and Kagyu lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, Bercholz studied closely with both Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, who empowered him to teach dharma. He has taught Buddhist philosophy and meditation across North America, Europe, and Australasia for over forty years, and is also the author of the new book, Rude Awakenings: An Unconventional Guide to the Buddhist Path . “The way I perceive and most humans perceive is…","meta_description":"Founder of Shambhala Publications, Samuel Bercholz, reflects on a lifetime of dharma and encourages us to challenge our often distorted perceptions of rea…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4628,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/creativity-spirituality-making-a-buck-with-david-nichtern-92367/episodes/ep-69-rude-awakenings-walking-the-buddhist-path-with-samuel-bercholz/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/creativity-spirituality-making-a-buck-with-david-nichtern-92367/ep-69-rude-awakenings-walking-the-buddhist-path-with-samuel-bercholz.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}