{"podcast":{"title":"Tricycle Talks","slug":"tricycle-talks-828620","podcast_index_feed_id":828620,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/TPG2116740081","website_url":"http://tricycle.org/podcast","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/cc403d78-473d-11ee-ad52-cf8b5d7696e3/image/avatars-zxFGwPk1KOmyzzuw-TyjFTQ-original.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Tricycle Talks","episode_count":203,"summary":"Tricycle Talks: Listen to Buddhist teachers, writers, and thinkers on life's big questions. Hosted by James Shaheen, editor in chief of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, the leading Buddhist magazine in the West. Life As It Is: Join James Shaheen with co-host Sharon Salzberg and learn how to bring Buddhist practice into your everyday life. Tricycle: The Buddhist Review creates award-winning editorial, podcasts, events, and video courses. Unlock access to all this Buddhist knowledge by subscribing to the magazine at tricycle.org/join","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tricycle-talks-828620"},"episode":{"title":"Dementia and the Sense of Self with Philip Ryan","slug":"dementia-and-the-sense-of-self-with-philip-ryan","published_at":"2026-03-11T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tricycle-talks-828620/dementia-and-the-sense-of-self-with-philip-ryan","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tricycle-talks-828620","url":"https://tricycle.org/podcast/philip-ryan","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/tcQd6Q6C0RUUlOHq1Ytj/mgln.ai/e/51/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/TPG5030349016.mp3?updated=1773340208","summary":"Philip Ryan is Tricycle’s executive editor, and he has worked at Tricycle on and off for the past thirty years. In the Spring issue of Tricycle, he wrote an article, \"Old Friend,\" about his father’s dementia diagnosis and the questions it has raised about memory, impermanence, and identity. In this episode of Tricycle Talks, Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, sits down with Ryan to discuss how Buddhist teachings on the mind have helped him to make sense of his father’s diagnosis, why we are ultimately unknowable to each other and ourselves, and how dementia is the perfect illustration of the truths of impermanence, suffering, and nonself—or maybe a mockery of those truths.","meta_description":"Philip Ryan is Tricycle’s executive editor, and he has worked at Tricycle on and off for the past thirty years. In the Spring issue of Tricycle, he wrote…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3096,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tricycle-talks-828620/episodes/dementia-and-the-sense-of-self-with-philip-ryan/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tricycle-talks-828620/dementia-and-the-sense-of-self-with-philip-ryan.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}