- 40
- Episodes
- 2
- Transcribed
- 150
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 2M
- YouTube views
About Open Question
On Open Question Podcast, Buddhist teacher, Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, explores topics central to the Mahayana view - emptiness, dependent arising and bodhicitta - using a fresh mix of language, storytelling and guided inquiry. Elizabeth invites listeners to establish a practical understanding of these topics to enhance their daily lives. Elizabeth has studied and practiced Buddhism since 1985 under the guidance of Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. After completing a six year retreat, she was appointed Retreat Master at the Samten Ling retreat center in Colorado. Elizabeth is the author of two books, The Power of an Open Question and The Logic of Faith. She is a teacher in the Mangala Shri Bhuti lineage, and is the founder/president of Middle Way Initiative, an educational non-profit. For more information, please visit: www.middlewayinitiative.org
- Publisher
- Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel
- Category
- religion & spirituality · religion & spirituality
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 21 Apr 2020
- Latest episode
- 24 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
2 of 40 episodes have a transcript.
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
OQ 703 - TWO TRUTHS: NOT TWO, NOT TRUE
17 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT
OQ 702 - What Am I Looking At?
10 Feb 2026
OQ 701 - The Great Escape
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OQ 703 - TWO TRUTHS: NOT TWO, NOT TRUE
Published 24 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Seeing, understanding, and experiencing the nature is naturally liberating, and the whole point of the Buddha's teaching. This exploration has been about developing clarity around union. We can easily get caught in conceptual notions about the two truths in union, but our practice brings us to an accurate understanding of how things are through direct experience. Let's take water and ice as an example. We can conceptually relate to water and ice as two distinct things, but when you look at ice as an examined experience, it's impossible to separate or distinguish them. An ice cube is not separate from water, but it's also not the same. […]
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- YouTube views
- 2,046,741
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 132 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 18 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 71 / 100
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- Quality
- 68
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 92
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