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About Matthew O'Connell
Matthew O'Connell is a life coach and the host of the The Imperfect Buddha podcast. You can find The Imperfect Buddha on Facebook and Twitter (@imperfectbuddha).
NBN Episodes hosted by Matthew:
December 13, 2025
Dr. Michael Uebel on Reimaging Equanimity
Michael Uebel is a psychotherapist and researcher currently based in Austin, Texas. He is recognized as a pioneer in applying psychological insights t…
July 29, 2025
Against Identity
In Against Identity, philosopher Alexander Douglas seeks an alternative wisdom. Searching the work of three thinkers – ancient Chinese philosopher Zhu…
June 8, 2025
Speaking Philosophically
Tom joins us to discuss his book Speaking Philosophically: Communication at the Limits of Discursive Reason (Bloomsbury, 2023). Western philosophy has…
May 21, 2025
Becoming a Buddha & Being Human too
You’re human, but are you also a Buddha? If so, which one comes first? What does it mean to be human? What is a Buddha exactly? Is our humanity lost o…
December 11, 2024
Non Buddhist Mysticism: Performing Irreducible and Primitive Presence
Glenn’s latest, Non Buddhist Mysticism: Performing Irreducible and Primitive Presence (Eyecorner Press, 2022), presents a radical reorientation to “sp…
August 29, 2024
Alone in a World of Wounds
Shodhin Geiman is Sensei & Abbot at Chicago Zen Center and recently retired Senior Research Professor at Valparaiso University. He has written on aspe…
June 18, 2024
Nietzsche Now! With Glenn Wallis
Nietzsche Now! Now? Really, you might ask. Isn’t he dead already? The Great Immoralist on the vital issues of our time. Hmm, how is that you might ask…
March 31, 2024
Building the Future Buddha
Jundo Cohen is a Zen Buddhist teacher and founder of Treeleaf Zendo, a digital Zen community with members in over 50 countries. He writes on the inter…
March 23, 2024
Making Sense of Yogacara with William Waldron
Professor William Waldron teaches courses on the South Asian religious traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism, Tibetan religion and history, comparative …
January 8, 2024
Perceiving Reality
What does it mean to perceive and just how capable are we of perceiving reality? This is a core question in the work of Christian Coseru, who is today…
December 4, 2023
David McMahan on Rethinking Meditation
If anything, the Imperfect Buddha Podcast has been a rallying cry for the disruption of the myths that abound in the world of Buddhism and meditation.…
November 10, 2023
A.I. and Practice
The technological revolution we are facing today is artificial intelligence. At least this is what we are told. Those doing the telling include tech e…
November 2, 2023
Wake up! An Antidote to Stupidity in Three Parts (Part 3)
Wake up! Antidote to stupidity in three parts. This is part 3. What follows is a three-part series on waking up to non-buddhism as an antidote to stu…
October 26, 2023
Wake up! An Antidote to Stupidity in Three Parts (Part 2)
Wake up! Antidote to stupidity in three parts. This is part 2. What follows is a three-part series on waking up to non-buddhism as an antidote to st…
October 19, 2023
Wake up! An Antidote to Stupidity in Three Parts (Part 1)
Wake up! Antidote to stupidity in three parts. This is part 1. What follows is a three-part series on waking up to non-buddhism as an antidote to st…
August 22, 2023
Meditating Three Minutes a Day
After a month or two of absence, the podcast returns for a new season, beginning with an unexpectedly wide ranging conversation with Dr. Richard Dixey…
May 29, 2023
Buddhism and Transcendence
Acclaimed cultural critic Curtis White examines current fissures in Western Buddhism and argues against the growth of scientific and corporate dharma…
May 18, 2023
Simon Cox on the Subtle Body
What links Vajrayana Buddhism and Vajrayogini to Alistair Crowley and the neo-Platonists? A topic of speculation, desire and imagination, the Subtle B…
May 16, 2023
"I Refuse to Change"
“There is positive and negative resistance, and plenty of somethings in between. But who determines the terms upon which such a psychological force is…
April 28, 2023
Ken McLeod on the Magic of Vajrayana
“A moving description of a life in practice which goes far beyond text-based ideas of prayer, devotion, guru-connection, or meditation, and most espec…
April 17, 2023
The Ancient Greek Version of Buddhism
“It is not events that disturb us, but what we believe about them.” Is this true? Well, apparently Pyrrho, a rather obscure Greek philosopher claimed …
April 1, 2023
Incognito
I grew up with Alexandra David-Neel’s books on my mum’s bookshelf. She was part of the myth making process that led to my own fascination with Tibet, …
March 28, 2023
A Review of "A Critique of Western Buddhism"
Regular guest to the podcast Glenn Wallis wrote A Critique of Western Buddhism: Ruins of the Buddhist Real (Bloomsbury) back in 2018. Time has flown …
February 28, 2023
Contemplative, Existential Psychotherapy and Dzogchen
Ken Bradford, Ph.D., has been a practitioner in the Theravada and Tibetan Buddhist traditions since 1975, and engaged in introducing meditative sensib…