{"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":"The Dharma of Complaining","slug":"the-dharma-of-complaining","published_at":"2026-09-09T13:20:08+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-7651813/the-dharma-of-complaining","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-7651813","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/dharmaand/3135524","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/397965/3135524/dharmaand/2026_09_08_22_03_35_e408641d-1d40-45b0-9640-6deb30b3eb60.mp3","summary":"What's the difference between a complaint and a need? When the Buddha was dying, he asked Ānanda for water again and again. He was in pain, he was thirsty, he was tired, and he was dying. But he voiced his request without complaint. This talk is all about the difference between naming a need and letting the suffering do the talking. Recorded at the River Road drop-in class, Bethesda, MD, August 2026. Texts & references: The Buddha's request for water — Mahāparinibbāna Sutta (DN 16), suttacentral.net/dn16 · Parideva (lamentation) in the first noble truth's expansion of dukkha · D.W. Winnicott on early attention and mirroring · Wei Wu Wei on worshipping the teapot Photo by Santiago Lacarta on Unsplash","meta_description":"What's the difference between a complaint and a need? When the Buddha was dying, he asked Ānanda for water again and again. He was in pain, he was thirsty…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1856,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dharma-7651813/episodes/the-dharma-of-complaining/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-7651813/the-dharma-of-complaining.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}