Ep. 14 - Music, Life and Buddhism w/ David Nichtern

Synchronicity with Noah Lampert

Noah Lampert

Comedy, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.8 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2016

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Back from the mini-hiatus with a bang.

My guest today is musician, author and Dharma teacher, David Nichtern. David was a student of one of my favorite Buddhist teachers, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and continues to teach in the Shambhala tradition. David's also an accomplished composer, producer and guitarist – a four-time Emmy winner and a two-time Grammy nominee. He's the founder of Dharma Moon and 5 Points Records. David has recorded and played with Stevie Wonder, Jerry Garcia, Lana Del Rey, Maria Muldaur, Paul Simon and many others. Bonus fact: he's also been a lifelong (literally) friend of Christopher Guest.

David and I discuss a whole lot of stuff in this episode including the concepts of idiot compassion, right livelihood, spiritual materialism, relationships and the connection between music and Buddhism. I also reference a podcast David did with comedian Pete Holmes on Pete's podcast, "You Made it Weird." You can check that out here.

David also happens to be an extremely pleasant and fun guy to talk with.

Some cool things were mentioned in this episode which I'm sharing below. Enjoy!

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"The Profound Treasury of Ocean of Dharma" by Chogyam Trungpa and Judith Lief

Books by Alberto Villoldo

I also signed up for David's course, "Creativity, Spirituality and Making a Buck" which you'll hear us discuss in this episode. Check it out if it sounds interesting.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is synchronicity.
0:02.6	This is synchronicity.
0:04.4	This is synchronicity.
0:06.5	This is synchronicity.
0:08.7	This is synchronicity.
0:11.7	This is synchronicity.
0:17.8	Welcome back to Synchronicity. This is episode 14. My guest today is David Nicturn.
0:26.1	Super duper excited for you guys to hear this one. Easily one of my favorite conversations,
0:32.1	podcasts or otherwise. I had a feeling going into speaking with David that it was going to be pretty cool.
0:40.1	We have a lot of crossover stuff.
0:43.3	I think David said kindred spirits at one point, which made me feel pretty good because he's such a cool guy.
0:49.2	But he's a musician.
0:51.4	He's an author.
0:52.7	He's a Dharma teacher.
1:09.4	And more importantly, he just seems to be a very grounded individual who is walking the line of being rooted in Dharma teachings, Buddhist teachings, but also being in the world, right?
1:14.7	Going into the world, not trying to escape it to find something else.
1:17.9	He studied with Chogiam Chungpa.
1:20.5	I got ahead of myself.
1:22.2	I just got back from vacation.
1:24.4	I wanted to talk about all that, but I'm so excited about David.
1:27.3	I'm just going to stick with this and then we'll do that afterwards.
1:30.2	It'll be a little herky jerky, but okay, that's all right.
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