The Kingdom of Heaven is Spread Upon the Earth (Christmas Eve Live)

The ZDoggMD Show

ZDoggMD LLC

Spirituality, Medicine, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

An intimate Christmas Eve morning livestream exploring what we're really celebrating: heart-based amazement and love as the pervasive fabric of reality, not some Hallmark conception. We discuss sitting in the unknown without the constant churn of thought creating expectation, how an itch evolved from meditative deconstruction to just allowing what is, and why all religions—Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sufism—point at the same unsayable thing through different words. Includes reflections on Jesus's teachings about unconditional love and kingdom of heaven, Adyashanti's "Resurrecting Jesus," my grandfather's journey from atheism to experiencing God as absolute magic, and why free will versus determinism is neither/both/doesn't ultimately matter when you're here now. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: ⁠⁠https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd⁠⁠ Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: ⁠⁠https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd⁠⁠ More about Dr. Z: ⁠⁠https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Timecodes and topics: 00:00 - Introduction: Christmas Eve Live 00:36 - What We're Celebrating: Heart-Based Amazement 01:31 - Love: Human Conception vs. Pervasive Fabric of Reality 03:05 - Working Holidays as a Hospital Doctor 05:44 - Sitting in the Unknown Without Expectation 11:24 - How Do You Stay in the Unknown? 14:16 - Being Itchy: From Deconstruction to Just Allowing 17:04 - Societal Constructs: Taking Sincerely, Not Seriously 19:04 - Religions Pointing at the Same Thing 22:43 - Jesus: Unconditional Love and Kingdom of Heaven 25:49 - Resurrecting Jesus by Adyashanti 27:18 - My Grandfather in India: From Atheist to "God is Real" 29:43 - Free Will, Determinism, or Neither and Both 32:28 - Kingdom of Heaven Spread Upon the Earth 35:07 - Closing: Stay in the Presence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	One, two, three. Just give me patience. Yeah. I think we're live. I'm going to load up your comments here. It's Christmas Eve, son. Oh, it does work look at that so if I
0:23.3	click on that I can see your comments here too nice is there any reason to actually
0:28.9	see them on an iPad as well maybe maybe not I don't know probably just purely
0:36.5	out of boredom.
0:38.3	Come on down.
0:40.7	I got the living room going.
0:43.7	Kathleen is the first comment.
0:44.7	Merry Christmas Eve.
0:45.3	That's right.
0:47.3	So it's Christmas Eve.
0:48.8	The Eve of Christmas.
1:00.4	The whole love thing, right, that Jesus was about. It was that total heart-based amazement.
1:05.9	That's, I think, what we're trying to celebrate.
1:09.1	Evan, Sunshine, Amber, Kara, Maureen Bruins, Happy Holidays, Love the Tree. Thanks.
1:16.8	My wife and kids picked this while I was doing some other errands that day and they came back with
1:21.7	this thing and Charlie Brown Christmas treat it into life. So it was kind of nice and I think hang on. Let me see if I can
1:30.6	Yeah, we got a fire going. Yay
1:34.7	Nothing like a gas fireplace to make the spirit real
1:40.9	We go back to your comments here
1:43.8	You guys talked about love yesterday and i've been
1:46.0	thinking about it since then um it's interesting like love is one of those things that when we
1:52.3	think about it we think about the human conception of love like um it's a very mind-based and emotion-based kind of sense.
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