{"podcast":{"title":"Dharma &","slug":"dharma-7651813","podcast_index_feed_id":7651813,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/dharmaand/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/dharmaand","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/dharmaand/podcast_cover.jpg","author":"Devin Maroney","episode_count":22,"summary":"Devin Maroney is a dharma teacher and psychotherapist. He has practiced Insight meditation for fifteen years, including many silent retreats and studies directly under Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. He is a teacher with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, teaches regularly at Downtown Dharma DC, and is the founder of the Riverside Meditation Community in Brookmont, Maryland. He has read hundreds of the Buddha's discourses, and his teaching stays close to those early texts, tested against his own practice and against what he sees each day in the therapy room. A licensed clinical social worker trained in Somatic Experiencing and Internal Family Systems, he is the founder of Oaklight Counseling , a therapy practice in Bethesda, Maryland. He lives nearby with his wife and three children.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-13T20:20:44.304344+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-7651813"},"episode":{"title":"Dad, Come Sit With Me!","slug":"dad-come-sit-with-me","published_at":"2026-09-13T16:59:45+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-7651813/dad-come-sit-with-me","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-7651813","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/dharmaand/3147271","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/397965/3147271/dharmaand/2026_09_13_16_59_23_5d4eff62-c240-4bdc-8e19-adb6f5a09830.mp3","summary":"What's the point of getting up on a Sunday morning to meet in a suburban church to meditate? Is it happiness? Happiness can be quite fickle. Contentment? Yes, though there's more to it than that. What it's really about is release. It's what the Pāli texts call cetovimutti , the release of the heart. And the Buddha's first instruction toward it isn't solitude in a cave or a forest. It's sitting down next to someone. Recorded at the first gathering of the Riverside Meditation Community, Brookmont Church, Brookmont, MD, September 2026. Texts & references: The Meghiya Sutta — the monk, the mango grove, and the five things that ripen release of heart (Udāna 4.1, suttacentral.net/ud4.1; also AN 9.3) · The Upaḍḍha Sutta — Ānanda on admirable friendship, and the Buddha's correction (SN 45.2, suttacentral.net/sn45.2) · D.W. Winnicott, \"there is no such thing as a baby\" · Wendell Berry, \"Health Is Membership\" — community as the smallest unit of health · the Roseto effect · Tara Brach Photo by Federico Enni on Unsplash","meta_description":"What's the point of getting up on a Sunday morning to meet in a suburban church to meditate? Is it happiness? Happiness can be quite fickle. Contentment?…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1064,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dharma-7651813/episodes/dad-come-sit-with-me/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-7651813/dad-come-sit-with-me.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}