Ask a Buddhist Ethicist Podcast

Adriana hosts a Q&A podcast called Ask a Buddhist Ethicist where she invites scholars, practitioners, and teachers across a variety of traditions to tackle a thorny, ethical question and explore it through a Buddhist lens.

Introducing Ask a Buddhist Ethicist Podcast - Episode 1

In this episode, I dive into:

  • My own relationship to the precepts and why I believe they’re the secret sauce for practice integration

  • What the Buddhist precepts really are—and why they matter

  • How Buddhist ethics differ from Western concepts of morality

  • The importance of talking about ethics openly in Western Buddhism across traditions and how it can strengthen and expand our understanding of sangha

Listen to the first episode

Let’s talk about the ‘k’ word - Episode 2

In this episode, I dive into:

  • The nature and historical context of karma in Buddhist teachings

  • Karma's cosmological role and impact across the six realms

  • How intentions shape karma's effects

  • Karma's psychological operation through dependent origination, exemplified by the 12 links of cause and effect

  • The misconception of karma as punishment and its harm to oppressed groups

  • The connection between karma, no-self, and the social responsibility for collective karma

Listen to the second episode