A Christian and a Buddhist walk in to a bar

We are back to one of our favorite topics. The board game Diplomacy.Tai-Sen (Jamal) shares why he's known as the 'Jade Buddha', how he thinks about the game, and we talk about how others perceive him and the intersection between the game and his spirituality. Spoiler alert - its more closely connected than you may think! 

One Love dear listeners. Welcome to todays episode. And we are back with divine music! we know you missed it. We jump in to the wonderful world of Bob Marley, and Rastafarianism in general. A highly informative episode to make, where we move beyond the cliché's and really take a look at what was behind some of the most spiritual popular music of the last century.
 
Give thanks 
 
https://theconversation.com/under-the-influence-of-bob-marley-the-timeless-music-man-63347

Newly dubbed KoJu Tai-Sen has done it! He's become a non monk. We reflect on the ceremony of Jukai, Jacob's thoughts in attending, and how Tai-Sen is feeling after the whole process. 

This is it, the final 'not-monk' episode. What a journey it has been! 
 
Join us for the last time, as we discuss disparaging the three treasures, and how to 'just do it' when it comes to the precepts. 

It's Hulk mode time on the pod, as we discuss not being angry. Is it even possible? what does anger do to us? Stay tuned to find out, and write us an angry letter if we don't answer your questions appropriately. 

As the owners of this podcast, Jacob and Jamal spend the episode asserting their sole rights to it, keeping it from others and ensuring that no one else can have any of it. Alongside that we continue exploring the Buddhist precepts. This time around not being possessive. 

This week. We talk about why we are the best. Just so much better than everyone else. And also why Buddhism asks us not to praise ourselves at the expense of others. 

This week in the bar we get out our critiques and slanders, and just go in on how much we really don't like each other.... not really. But we are looking at speaking ill of others, and the Buddhist precept that tells us... maybe don't.

Today we are back at the bar to tackle the topic of...being at the bar too much? We look in to the role of intoxicants in the Buddhist precepts and discuss how one can better have a positive relationship with all things that cloud the mind. 
https://open.substack.com/pub/oldster/p/ask-a-sober-oldster-23-nadia-bolz 
 

This week on the podcast, Jacob finally converts and Jamal reveals that he's been a universalist the whole time. 
 
That's right! we are talking about lying, and how it interacts with the Buddhist precepts. Plus, stay turned for our brutal takedown of Kevin MacLeod.... nah I can't lie about that one.