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The ZDoggMD Show

Dr. Zubin Damania

Interviews and live rants on healthcare, depolarizing our divided society, and the non-dual nature of reality. Hosted by UCSF/Stanford-trained physician Dr. Zubin Damania (AKA ZDoggMD).

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  • Wednesday · 55 min

    There's no bypassing life, like, EVER

    A live YouTube conversation about dropping our oldest child off for college, ending with an overpriced bottle of hotel Jim Beam drunk out of plastic cups by a Homewood Suites firepit. Yeah, enlightenment ain't what the gurus have been selling us 😭😅 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • August 8 · 1 hr 13 min

    Alone, Together

    Back from Japan to talk about being "alone together," why the "loneliness epidemic" is something engineered by the "me", and how bliss, grief, Fauci, and a three-dollar vintage shirt all fit into the same perfect unfolding. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: ⁠https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • July 2 · 1 hr 32 min

    Moral Injury, Health 4.0, and the End of "You"

    A live Q+A wandering through our Sunday zoom meeting with the awakening group, to Jesus Christ Superstar, to the death of "ZDoggMD" as an identity, through moral injury, openness as the prerequisite for everything, why spirituality is a beautiful farce, and what it's like when worry about the future just stops sticking. Health 4.0 son! Contact me, watch all the videos, and join the Supporter Tribe for future zoom meetings here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • June 22 · 1 hr 46 min

    Liberation Is The End Of The Need For Liberation | From TikTok LIVE

    I tell ya, there's something about these ephemeral TikTok live conversations that just gets this Zubin character all lit up 🔥 Here's a recording just for y'all who listen to the podcast (these live shows normally go POOF immediately after airing on TikTok). As always, you can hit me up hello at zdoggmd.com, and check out all the things here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • June 14 · 58 min

    Where'd My Inner Critic Go? | TikTok Zen LIVE

    No subject, no object, just phenomena arising. From my TikTok live on consciousness, hope, meaning, the freefall of no belief, and what it's like when the self-critical voice quietly stops showing up. Plus: row your boat. Contact form, more videos, and membership options here. https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • June 3 · 1 hr 9 min

    How Do I Live vs. WHAT AM I? | Tuesday Zen, LIVE

    There's really only two questions. Exploring the first can lead to a more comfy prison cell, and REALIZING the second shows there never was a prison cell at all. Both are ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. Live conversation from the Z-Shed! Click here for website, contact form, links to all the things, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • May 16 · 1 hr 2 min

    When "You" Drop Away, Only Trust Remains

    "You" can never really trust this moment. And yet THIS, here, now, IS pure trust itself. A Friday Zen Live on the unconditional acceptance of what is, why the separate self can never surrender into this, the second arrow that never landed, and an old biker dude who took the longest dump in trail bathroom history 💩 ⁠⁠Contact form, videos, links, and all the things here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • May 2 · 1 hr 9 min

    Every Rose Has Its Thorn (Why Poison Was Basically The Buddha)

    What goes up must come down, and for the spiritual seeker, that pendulation is one of the most specific and painful flavors of suffering there is. This Friday Zen LIVE from YouTube explores why the ups and downs are the same no-thing, what natural compassion looks like when you never practiced or play-acted it, Douglas Harding's headless way, and much more. ⁠Contact form, videos, links, and all the things here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • April 26 · 1 hr 7 min

    The Mind Can Be A Real Bastard | Friday Zen, LIVE

    My baby is now at senior prom, I got a splitting headache, and somehow this is the perfect moment to talk about no-thing-ness. A Friday Zen YouTube live (4/24/26) on retreats, the seeking apparatus burning out, no-thingness appearing as everything, and why the mind is a real a-hole 🕳️ Contact form, videos, links, and all the things here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • March 13 · 1 hr 18 min

    Daylight Saving, Seeking's End, Anus Meditation | Living Room Roundz LIVE

    What happens when the seeking stops? We explore the paradox of the spiritual path, why role models don't make sense anymore, and how life just keeps life-ing — perfectly, with nobody doing it. A Monday live conversation on YouTube about nothing and everything. https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd for all the things. 0:00 Introduction: Post-Daylight Savings Monday 1:05 Why Time Changes Mess With Our Circadian Rhythms 4:28 Is There Meaning in Names? 5:24 Spirituality as Just Another Story 7:17 This Is Not a Popular Message 8:02 When Interest in TED Talks and Podcasts Dies 11:07 YouTube Is Actually Great (When You Stop Caring) 11:39 What Happens After Death? 13:14 You Can't Learn This — The Paradox of Seeking 17:03 Speaking to People Where They Are 19:25 Radical Honesty: There's Nothing to Do 21:01 There's No Continuity — Only Memory 23:05 Julia, the Rug Is Going to Be Pulled Out 24:04 How Do You Relate to Dream Characters? You Don't. 27:02 Presence Is Just Radical Acceptance 29:22 My Wife's Plant Obsession (House Tour Moment) 30:00 The Tragic Florida Prank Story 35:01 Humans Aren't Terrible or Good — Just This 36:17 Life Can Get Better (Paradoxically) 37:14 If People Had to Slaughter Their Own Animals 39:01 Revisiting the Past as Part of Realization 42:01 Dating Ads During the Live Stream? 43:00 Nothing Happens Outside What's Immediately Apparent 44:04 The Anus Meditation (Yes, Really) 45:00 Guilt About World Events 46:46 Does Seeking Energy Come Back? 50:02 Subjectification and the Fluxy State 51:04 Am I in the Epstein Files? 57:52 Better or Worse Than Seven Years Ago? 59:02 Getting Pulled Back Into the Story 1:00:22 Country Joe McDonald Has Passed 1:02:02 AMAs and the Dissolution of Questions 1:03:05 Should I Do a Daily Practice? 1:06:02 Why Would You Want to Be on a Podcast? 1:08:50 Would I Go on Joe Rogan? Nah. 1:10:50 Daniel Schmachtenberger 1:14:12 Closing: The Paradox of Talking to 100 People Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • February 27 · 47 min

    Back Into The Matrix Where Everything is Just Everything-ing | Friday Zen, LIVE

    Spiritual "influencers" may just be the Final Bosses in the game of delusion 🤮 Watch the YouTube video here. https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd for all the things. 00:00 - Introduction: Live Comments Make It Wondrous 01:46 - BAFTA Tourette's Incident and Nobody Wins 02:41 - Spiritual Influencers Are the Worst 06:14 - F**k all the gurus 09:05 - "Spirituality" isn't something I wanna talk about anymore 11:20 - The Deep Secret: Just What's Appearing 12:06 - Cipher in the Matrix: Wanting to Go Back In 15:01 - Coming All the Way Back to Sleep (Zero Fucks Given) 17:33 - The Seeking Stops Naturally (You Can't Make It Stop) 19:45 - Dentist Story: Not Witnessing, Just Everything Everything-ing 24:24 - Retreats, Poetry Rounds, and Narcissistic Bullshit 29:34 - Turning the Dharma Wheel: I Don't Know What That Means 32:04 - Buddhism's No-Self Gets Distorted Into Attainment 35:00 - Why Be Silent? It's Here in the Talking Too 37:13 - Ashley Selfie Moment: Breaking Retreat Rules 40:05 - Another's Experience Isn't Your Experience (Don't Replicate) 43:35 - Closing: Power Corrupts, Pure Luck of Conditioning Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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