# dukkha (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover dukkha. Page: Feed: --- ## [Talk #6: Anatta (no self)](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ed-geraty-lcsw-c/episodes/Talk-6-Anatta-no-self-e3nifmb) _2026-08-18 · Ed Geraty LCSW-C · Ed Geraty LCSW-C, LICSW, LCSW INSITE Podcast: Modern Psychotherapy & Eastern/Western Wisdom._ Anatta — literally "non-self" — is one of the three marks of existence in early Buddhist teaching, alongside dukkha and anicca (impermanence), which we'll cover next time. The claim is not that "you" are an illusion in the sense of not existing at all — that's a common misreading. The claim is narrower and more precise: what we call the self is not a single, unchanging, independent essence sitting… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/163ec554/podcast/play/124386443/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-18%2F430064827-44100-2-a74ec381ab7ca.mp3) ## [Talk 5: The Eightfold Path](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ed-geraty-lcsw-c/episodes/Talk-5-The-Eightfold-Path-e3nagdk) _2026-08-12 · Ed Geraty LCSW-C · Ed Geraty LCSW-C, LICSW, LCSW INSITE Podcast: Modern Psychotherapy & Eastern/Western Wisdom._ If dukkha is the diagnosis, the Eightfold Path is the treatment plan. But treatment plans can look like arbitrary lists until you see the logic connecting the parts. Today: what the eight factors actually are, how they group together, and why the grouping matters more than the number eight. [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/163ec554/podcast/play/124125044/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-12%2F429710074-44100-2-f73ce77bd861b.mp3) ## [Introduction to Secular Buddhism](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ed-geraty-lcsw-c/episodes/Introduction-to-Secular-Buddhism-e3n2f7c) _2026-08-06 · Ed Geraty LCSW-C · Ed Geraty LCSW-C, LICSW, LCSW INSITE Podcast: Modern Psychotherapy & Eastern/Western Wisdom._ "Secular Buddhism" isn't a single school or lineage — it's more of a stance, taken up by people from different Buddhist backgrounds (Zen, Theravada, Tibetan) who converge on a similar move: treat the Buddha's teaching primarily as a practical method for reducing suffering and living well, rather than as a body of revealed metaphysical truth to be taken on faith. [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/163ec554/podcast/play/123861676/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-6%2F429344106-44100-2-0a7a05f8d500b.mp3) ## [Secular Buddhism: Talk 4; Dukkha](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ed-geraty-lcsw-c/episodes/Secular-Buddhism-Talk-4-Dukkha-e3n1g0p) _2026-08-05 · Ed Geraty LCSW-C · Ed Geraty LCSW-C, LICSW, LCSW INSITE Podcast: Modern Psychotherapy & Eastern/Western Wisdom._ The Four Noble Truths are typically taught as facts to believe, but the Buddha actually presented them as four specific task s to perform in daily life. 1. Suffering (Dukkha) is to be Comprehended The Task: Acknowledge and understand. The Action: Instead of running away from pain, stress, or dissatisfaction, you look directly at it. You completely accept that suffering is a natural part of human… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/163ec554/podcast/play/123829721/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-5%2F429301778-44100-2-a4428a3b68b1.mp3) ## [Secular Buddhism Series : Talk 2: The Historical Buddha](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ed-geraty-lcsw-c/episodes/Secular-Buddhism-Series--Talk-2-The-Historical-Buddha-e3n1fqm) _2026-08-05 · Ed Geraty LCSW-C · Ed Geraty LCSW-C, LICSW, LCSW INSITE Podcast: Modern Psychotherapy & Eastern/Western Wisdom._ If you walk into a Buddhist temple in much of Asia, you'll often see the Buddha depicted with a halo, sometimes with rays of light, sometimes as one of many past and future Buddhas stretching across cosmic time. That image is a religious icon, built up over centuries. Underneath it — or before it — there was a man. Almost certainly a real one. And the question for today is: what can we actually… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/163ec554/podcast/play/123829526/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-5%2F429301513-44100-2-756d8be0444d5.mp3) ## [Secular Buddhism: Talk 3 : The Four Noble Truths (Tasks)](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ed-geraty-lcsw-c/episodes/Secular-Buddhism-Talk-3--The-Four-Noble-Truths-Tasks-e3n1fh0) _2026-08-05 · Ed Geraty LCSW-C · Ed Geraty LCSW-C, LICSW, LCSW INSITE Podcast: Modern Psychotherapy & Eastern/Western Wisdom._ Imagine going to a doctor who tells you: you're sick, here's what's causing it, here's the good news that it's treatable, and here's the treatment plan. You wouldn't call that a religious creed. You'd call it a diagnosis. Today's talk is about reading the Four Noble Truths that way — not as four things to believe in, but as four moves in a single diagnostic structure, closer to medicine than… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/163ec554/podcast/play/123829216/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-5%2F429301076-44100-2-972f046e41047.mp3) ## [Video: Insight Meditation sitting with Ed Geraty LCSW-C](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ed-geraty-lcsw-c/episodes/Video-Insight-Meditation-sitting-with-Ed-Geraty-LCSW-C-e3mke5j) _2026-07-27 · Ed Geraty LCSW-C · Ed Geraty LCSW-C, LICSW, LCSW INSITE Podcast: Modern Psychotherapy & Eastern/Western Wisdom._ Join me on Saturdays at 2pm for our weekly virtual meditation sitting https://sites.google.com/view/shingyocommunity/mindfulness-insight-meditation?authuser=0 [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/163ec554/podcast/play/123401843/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-27%2F428725097-44100-2-de9c19a80c446.mp3) ## [Insight Meditation Sitting with Ed Geraty LCSW-C](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ed-geraty-lcsw-c/episodes/Insight-Meditation-Sitting-with-Ed-Geraty-LCSW-C-e3lbode) _2026-06-27 · Ed Geraty LCSW-C · Ed Geraty LCSW-C, LICSW, LCSW INSITE Podcast: Modern Psychotherapy & Eastern/Western Wisdom._ This recording is a fifty minute Insight Meditation sitting. Join us on saturdays at 2 p.m. EST. https://sites.google.com/view/shingyocommunity/mindfulness-insight-meditation?authuser=0 [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/163ec554/podcast/play/122068846/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-27%2F426932775-44100-2-f267fa3ec6fbf.m4a) ## [Dare to Live Fully by Ed Geraty LCSW-C](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ed-geraty-lcsw-c/episodes/Dare-to-Live-Fully-by-Ed-Geraty-LCSW-C-e3kctcg) _2026-06-05 · Ed Geraty LCSW-C · Ed Geraty LCSW-C, LICSW, LCSW INSITE Podcast: Modern Psychotherapy & Eastern/Western Wisdom._ Dare to Live Fully is an audio program created by Ed Geraty that is an inquiry into your Metaprinciples (Your beliefs and opinions} and challenges you to adopt new principles or let go of old outdated ones. [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/163ec554/podcast/play/121058128/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-5%2Fbd625575-4da4-2f0c-2044-c9a573d31194.mp3)