November 18, 2019

Enlightenment by Trial and Error: Dan Harris and Jay Michaelson at the Rubin Museum of Art

Dan Harris interviews Jay about his new book Enlightenment by Trial and Error.

November 18, 2019

Unorthodox Podcast: Jay Michaelson and Liel Leibovitz on Spirituality and Politics

Two spiritually-interested spiritual Jews: one conservative, one liberal. What's at the root of their disagreement?

September 12, 2019

Wholehearted Podcast: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up

Koshin Paley Ellison, Jay Michaelson, and Jessica Morey come together to share stories of awakening through authentic relationship with others.

September 4, 2019

Engineering Enlightenment? Mindfulness in a Transhuman Future

Buddhism has been reformed and secularized for over 120 years. What happens when the brain can be modified directly to emulate the highest states of liberation?

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August 21, 2019

Guided Meditation: Happiness for Grumpy People

You can be deeply happy and a grumpy, cynical person at the same time. This three-minute meditation shows you how

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April 27, 2018

Meditation, Buddhism, and Toxic Masculinity

At this March, 2018, talk at Smith College, Prof. Michaelson discusses the ways in which the dharma can reduce and increase toxic masculinity.

April 1, 2018

Coming Out of the Casket

Jay joins Myq Kaplan for a wide-ranging chat about heresy, neurosis, and lots of other things.

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March 7, 2018

Judaism and Evolving Dharma

Jay joins the Judaism Unbound podcast for a discussion of 21st century Judaism in an era of multicultural exchange.

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November 8, 2017

Anger, activism, and responsibility | Lama Surya Das and Jay Michaelson

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November 3, 2017

Bloggingheads: How the Bible’s Sex-Positive Values Were Lost

On this episode of Bloggingheads.tv, author-scholars David Carr and Jay Michaelson discuss some of the Bible's repressed sex-positive messages, and how they were turned into sex-negative ones

October 8, 2017

Guided Meditation for Pessimists | 10% Happier

It all comes down to this.

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July 6, 2017

Spiritual Practice and Political Activism in the Age of Fake News

In this talk from 2017, Jay offers a few principles for integrating our spiritual development with real, practical, messy, and painful political engagement.

June 12, 2017

Engineering Enlightenment: Next-Generation Mindfulness in a Transhuman Future

Woodenfish Forum: "Buddhism and New Technology," Shanghai, China; June 12, 2017

May 12, 2017

Retreat or Resist? Dharma Practice in the Age of Trump

This talk was given by Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson on May 2, 2017, at the Mindful Reflection Community of Unity Temple in Oak Park, Chicago.

May 4, 2017

Queering Jewish Theology

Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson delivers the 2017 Gilberto Castaneda lecture, "Queering Jewish Theology," at Chicago Theological Seminary.

April 3, 2017

Making the Shadow Your Teacher | Tricycle

In this dharma talk hosted on Tricycle, Jay explores how true happiness can emerge, paradoxically, from accepting sadness.  [Click here to watch]

January 19, 2017

Lama Surya Das: Awakening Now

Episode 37: Lama Surya Das has on Jay Michaelson to talk about anger, activism, and our responsibility to others.

January 1, 2017

Mystic-Skeptic Podcast: Buddhism and Judaism, A Comparison, Part 1

Jay joins David Daniel Gonzalez to discuss the relationship between American Jews and Buddhism, and what different spiritualities have in common.

December 23, 2016

Sixty-Second Sermon: The Reason for the Season

In this Sixty-Second Sermon Rabbi Jay Michaelson reflects on how a calendar quirk helps remind us of what’s most valuable about the holidays.

September 26, 2016

2016 Hazon Retreat

April 10, 2016

The Future of Buddhism | The Jay Forrest Show

Dr. Jay Michaelson discusses the future of Buddhism in the West with host Jay Forrest.

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April 3, 2016

10% Happier with Dan Harris and Dr. Jay Michaelson | ABC News

Jay and Dan talk about what comes next after mindfulness.

December 10, 2015

The Gate of Tears | Buddhist Geeks

In this conversation with host Vincent Horn, Jay discusses The Gate of Tears and its themes of compassion, joy, and justice.

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November 15, 2015

The Jew in the Lotus: 25 Years After the Journey

Award-winning author and teacher Rodger Kamenetz joined a conversation with Dr. Jay Michaelson 25 years after The Jew in the Lotus.

The Jew in the Lotus: 25 Years After the Journey from NMAJH on Vimeo.

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November 15, 2015

The Gate of Tears | The Robert Wright Show

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November 15, 2015

A fresh perspective on spirituality and happiness | State of Belief

Jay has an exciting new perspective to share in his latest work The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path, which has been called, “A Stunning antidote to the plethora of ‘get happy’ guides.” Today on the show Jay will discuss his new book, and will offer his thoughts on the relationship between happiness and spirituality in our everyday lives.

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October 28, 2015

The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path

October 13, 2015

The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path | The Secular Buddhist

Jay Michaelson speaks about his new book, The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path.

November 21, 2014

Dr. Jay Michaelson at Temple Israel November 21, 2014

November 21 marked the 20th Annual Joy Ungerleider Jewish Book Month Program. Our featured guest was Dr. Jay Michaelson, who spoke of The Next Generation of Jewish Spirituality.

July 11, 2014

Polytheism and Nonduality: Integral Kabbalah and the Repersonalization of God

In this presentation to the 2010 Science and Nonduality Conference, Dr. Michaelson explores why nondual spiritual traditions are often accompanied by complex polytheistic or polymorphic conceptions of the Divine, when one might expect the opposite. He also situates this phenomenon in personal as well as historical contexts.