About
Reading the title of this blog you most likely either laughed or got pissed. Either way, this blog is for you. After reading a little about me, I highly encourage you to read the Samadhi Manifesto. The manifesto will tell you more about me as a person and a practitioner than this little bio will.
I am Ryan Oelke, a Soldier of Love and a Buddhist practitioner. While my spiritual ethnicity is Buddhist, I also moonlight in the Neo-Vedanta and Sufi traditions.
Some of you might recognize me from the well known podcast, Buddhist Geeks, which I co-founded with my amazing friend and brother in the dharma, Vince Horn. For over two years I co-hosted and interviewed many wonderful Buddhist scholars and practitioners, all of which you can hear on Personal Life Media. In summer 2009 I left the Buddhist Geeks project for other endeavors, but I continue my Buddhist media passion here on My Samadhi is Hot.
I formally stepped on the contemplative path around nine years ago, in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, continuing until I found my home in the Dzogchen tradition of Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche. I also did a three-and-half year plunge in the Naropa MA Indo-Tibetan Buddhist program where I completed most of the courses in the Shedra track, excelled at Tibetan language, and even taught Tibetan as an adjunct faculty for two semesters.
I recently started a poetry site, Love is Under Me. Many of the poems reflect my spiritual practice, process, and insights. It’s on that site and My Samadhi is Hot that I look forward to sharing my own experiences thus far on the path and all those to come. I hope you’ll join me with all of your fierce passion, love, and humor.
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