Lodro Rinzler- The One You Feed

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Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Buddhism, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2014

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This week on The One You Feed we have Lodro Rinzler. He is a teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage and the author of the books "The Buddha Walks into a Bar" and "Walk Like a Buddha". Over the last decade he has taught numerous workshops at meditation centers and college campuses throughout North America. Lodro’s columns appear regularly on the Huffington Post and Marie Claire online and he is frequently featured in Reality Sandwich, the Interdependence Project, Shambhala Sun, Buddhadharma, and Good Men Project. He is the founder of the Institute for Compassionate Leadership, an authentic leadership training and job placement organization, and lives in Brooklyn with his dog Tillie and his cat Justin Bieber.In This Interview Lodro and I discuss...The One You Feed parable.How you can be sort of a mess and still ok.Basic Goodness versus Original SinDo psychopaths have basic goodnessHow the death of one of Lodro's close friends led him to spend time in Columbus, OH- our hometown.How to build a committed group of people in a community.AlcoholHow alcohol is like a chainsaw.How fixed expectations cause us trouble.Lodro's relationship advice.Lodro Rinzler LinksLodro Rinzler homepageLodro's YouTube pageLodro Rinzler author page on AmazonInstitute for Compassionate LeadershipSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	But let's practice meditation so that we're practicing for being pressed for the rest of our lives.
0:04.5	Or we're falling in love all over again. Or, you know, we've kind of a difficult conversation with this guy that we're seeing because he didn't make us come.
0:20.0	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:22.5	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:32.0	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:41.0	We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:47.0	But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:55.0	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. How they feed their good wolf.
1:02.0	You know, Andy, in our 22 years of friendship, this has to be the most bizarre thing we've ever done.
1:17.0	I know. Our podcast, my vagina said, what is a podcast where we ask our everyday vagina listeners to pull up a seat at the best friend table as we share our most personal and humiliating body stories.
1:28.0	We are going to discuss all body things like what exactly are we supposed to do with our pubes, Harry Menopause, our wax period, and so much more.
1:35.0	Listen to my vagina said, what podcast on the I Heart Radio app Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast?
1:42.0	What?
1:43.0	Thanks for joining us. Our guest today is Lodro Rinsler, practitioner and teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage.
1:50.0	He's the best selling author of the Buddha walks into a bar and the new book Walk Like a Buddha.
1:56.0	Over the last decade, he's taught numerous workshops at meditation centers and college campuses throughout the United States.
2:02.0	Lodro's columns also appear in the Huffington Post and Marie Claire online.
2:06.0	You can find out more about Lodro in our show notes at 1ufeed.net slash Lodro.
2:13.0	Hi Lodro, welcome to the show.
2:15.0	Oh, it's great to be here. Thanks for having me.
2:18.0	Yeah, thanks. Thanks for joining us.
2:20.0	So our podcast is based on the parable of two wolves, which I know that you know because you included it in your most recent book.
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