Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck with David Nichtern
Hosted by David Nichtern · Be Here Now Network
4.9from 103 ratings
- 92
- Episodes
- 11
- Transcribed
- 103
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck with David Nichtern
David Nichtern, founder of Dharma Moon (https://www.dharmamoon.com/), is a senior Buddhist teacher who has been practicing and teaching meditation for over 40 years. He was one of the initial American students of renowned meditation master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and studied closely with him soon after his arrival in the United States in 1970. He is also a business consultant with companies creating a variety of offerings integrating meditation in a larger health and well-being context – including Goldman Sachs, Journey Meditation, Creative Live, True Nature Meditation (Tokyo), Balanced Athlete, The Center for Health & Healing, Om Births, and Kobre & Kim law firm among others. He has been featured in The New York Times, FOX News, Netflix's The Midnight Gospel, Huffington Post, The Buddhist Geeks podcast, Duncan Trussell Family Hour Podcast, Pete Holmes' You Made it Weird Podcast, and many others. David is the author of the critically acclaimed Awakening From the Daydream: Reimagining The Buddha’s Wheel of Life and his recently released Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck. He mentors individual students both in person and online, and leads meditation teacher training programs around the world. David is also a multiple Grammy-nominated and Emmy award-winning musician. He has recorded and played with Stevie Wonder, Christopher Guest, Jerry Garcia, Lana Del Rey, Maria Muldaur, Paul Simon and many others. Among his many credits in records, film and TV, David wrote the classic song “Midnight at the Oasis” and has produced multiple records for and periodically tours with Grammy-nominated kirtan artist Krishna Das. Creativity Spirituality & Making A Buck with David Nichtern highlights creative people who share a passion for integrating their livelihood with their personal well-being and spiritual life. David hosts in-depth conversations with artists, musicians, comedians, authors, and thought leaders about life, creative pursuits, meditation, and how to build a sustainable business doing what you love.
- Publisher
- Be Here Now Network
- Category
- business · religion & spirituality
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 23 Aug 2019
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
11 of 92 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep. 71 – Rigpa: Healing with the Nature of Mind w/ Loch Kelly
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep. 70 – Wake Up Sleepy Buddha with Noel Coakley and Victoria 'Vee' Wikler
27 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep. 69 – Rude Awakenings: Walking the Buddhist Path with Samuel Bercholz
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Ep. 71 – Rigpa: Healing with the Nature of Mind w/ Loch Kelly
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah, but I think it may be simpler than all of that because there is mudra and tantra. All along the way. On the way, because those are all different doorways of learning. Right. For people who don't have to do all the intellectual. Right. It can be simplified. So I take it more like it's a developmental stage. Yeah. So if we were a child, we were non-conceptual. That's pre-verbal. And then we developed independence, and then we developed cognitive skills, school age. […]
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- Loch Kelly
- Noel Coakley
- Victoria 'Vee' Wikler
- Samuel Bercholz
- Joseph Goldstein
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- 69 ratings
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- 4.9 / 5
- 34 ratings
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