{"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":"Naturalistic Buddhism with Gil Fronsdal","slug":"naturalistic-buddhism-with-gil-fronsdal","published_at":"2025-11-12T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tricycle-talks-828620/naturalistic-buddhism-with-gil-fronsdal","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tricycle-talks-828620","url":"https://tricycle.org/podcast/gil-fronsdal","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/tcQd6Q6C0RUUlOHq1Ytj/mgln.ai/e/51/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/TPG3868322950.mp3?updated=1762803072","summary":"Gil Fronsdal is a dharma teacher at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California, and at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre. He has practiced extensively in the Soto Zen and Theravada Buddhist traditions, and he draws from both traditions in his framing of what he calls naturalistic Buddhism. In this episode of Tricycle Talks, Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, sits down with Fronsdal to discuss what he means by naturalistic Buddhism, how we can train ourselves in what we want to become, and how the practice of naturalistic Buddhism can help us become free.","meta_description":"Gil Fronsdal is a dharma teacher at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California, and at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre. He has pr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2667,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tricycle-talks-828620/episodes/naturalistic-buddhism-with-gil-fronsdal/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/naturalistic-buddhism-with-gil-fronsdal.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}