{"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 First Noble Truth (Dukkha)","slug":"the-first-noble-truth-dukkha","published_at":"2025-07-14T10:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-7651813/the-first-noble-truth-dukkha","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-7651813","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/dharmaand/3060730","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/397965/3060730/dharmaand/2026_08_11_09_27_29_53997cfd-da96-44ff-b6b9-843d53bc90e7.mp3","summary":"This is the dharma talk and meditation from a class I taught last Wednesday (I’ll be teaching there again this Wednesday). The talk is about defining dukkha. I pointed out that after 2,600 years, there still isn’t an agreement about what exactly dukkha refers to or how we would define it in English, despite the fact that it is the cornerstone of the most foundational teaching in the Pali Canon. Rather than engage in an intellectual exercise, I invited participants to use a meditation technique developed by Eugene Gendlin, a psychotherapist, called “Clearing the Space.” I find that the technique brings us right up to our deepest understanding of the nature of dukkha, and the possibility of freedom. This technique was taught to me by Jonathan Foust and I am glad to be able to share it with you. Many blessings. Photo by Matt Hardy on Unsplas h Get full access to Devin Maroney at devinmaroney.substack.com/subscribe","meta_description":"This is the dharma talk and meditation from a class I taught last Wednesday (I’ll be teaching there again this Wednesday). The talk is about defining dukk…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1325,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dharma-7651813/episodes/the-first-noble-truth-dukkha/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-first-noble-truth-dukkha.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}