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

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