The ZDoggMD Show
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).
Force Friday w/Doc Vader
In a galaxy not so far away, you asked, and Vader delivered. The Dark Lord of Medicine enlightens us on vaping, tight scrubs, and the untold secrets of space cancer. Video version here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 4
52 min
Ask Z Anything (From Instagram LIVE)
I take your questions on everything from transforming healthcare to identity shifts to practical decision making strategies and more. Originally streamed LIVE to Instagram, watch the video version here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 30
49 min
Closing The Generation Gap (Feat. Tha' ZPupps), LIVE
We rap about everything from the generation gap to pronouns to musical taste. Fun for the whole family 🥳 Originally streamed LIVE to YouTube, video version here. And check out the Australian generation gap lamb ad! Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 16
57 min
Hurting Those We Love, Reactivity, The Nature of Now (Sunday Zen, LIVE)
Originally streamed live on YouTube, in this Q+A we dive into: "Wherever you go, there you are" and what that really means What is "ananda" or bliss in relation to reality? Is there even a Now moment? How realization isn't the slightest bit "spiritual" How can we navigate social media without succumbing to mind traps? Reactivity and how to recognize and uproot it Is Doc Vader spiritual? The nature of desire Why do we hurt those we love MOST? Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 9
1 hr 15 min
2024 New Year's Day (From YouTube LIVE)
Originally streamed LIVE to YouTube, we rap about retreat realities, reactivity management, Zcatt's dental saga and more! Watch the video version here. PS if you're into this stuff, join our Supporter Tribe and get access to supporter-only livestreams, online retreats (NEW for 2024) and connect with others on this pathless path 🙏 Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 2
1 hr 14 min
From Taint to Truth: An Alcoholic's Awakening (w/Eshwar Segobind)
Awakening to no-self in the comedy of existence with my guest Eshwar Segobind. Listen to our prior episode here. Watch the video version here. Eshwar is an emergency electrical contractor and tradesman whose realization and awakening journey began during a several week stay in an addiction recovery center. We riff in our native immigrant accents for a while on subjects not safe for anyone, and tie all that into realizing the nature of no-self, identity, emotion, and the integration into "real life" of all of this. Learn more and sign up for a personal session with Eshwar here on his website and peep his YouTube channel. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 21, 2023
2 hr 9 min
Opening The Heart of Compassion (w/Simon Brown)
Simon Brown returns for a master class on compassion and how it can never be separated from the deepest insights into the non-dual nature of reality itself. We talk about how compassion and suffering could matter if this world is a kind of illusion, the distinction between empathy and compassion as it relates to burnout, dorsal and ventral vagal mechanisms related to deep trauma conditioning, the true meaning of Christmas and the holiday season and MUCH more. Please listen to our previous conversation on awakening and trauma here. Check out Simon's YouTube channel here. Here's that book by Ally Wise that Simon referenced, Embodied Healing. Topics and Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 4:05 Trust. Does life NEED planning? 13:07 Non-dual teachers’ absolutism, nature of fixation post-awakening 20:00 Working with reactivity and separation 25:30 Adyashanti’s resonance and retirement, spiritual perfectionism 33:26 Recent retreat insights, feeling everything with compassion 37:30 Learning the language of the heart 41:43 Dzogchen, emptiness and form, manifesting as awake presence 49:27 Nagarjuna, the Middle Way, compassion and acceptance 59:30 The work of unfolding is never finished 1:03:35 Awareness of thought/consciousness as the 6th sense 1:07:15 Why the self is not an enemy, self as a tool to see suffering of others 1:12:59 The true meaning of the Heart Sutra, Avalokiteshvara 1:20:35 Why suffering and compassion MATTER, when unconditional love meets suffering 1:24:05 Compassion vs. Empathy, healthcare professionals, burnout 1:31:28 Simon’s Cat! 1:32:15 Self-compassion, early wounding, the traumatized nervous system 1:43:15 Elephant and rider model of conscious and unconscious mind, trauma 1:44:50 Embodied Health by Ally Wise, ventral and dorsal vagal responses 1:48:50 When child’s basic needs aren’t met, degrees of trauma, co-regulation 1:54:12 Feeling into the primary emotions that trigger thought cascades, the Golden Thread 1:58:44 Compassion and the meaning of Christmas and the holiday season Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 16, 2023
2 hr 9 min
Beyond Existential Terror (Monday Zen, LIVE)
I take YOUR questions on non-duality, silent retreats, the illusion of identity, the nature of reality and more! Originally streamed LIVE to YouTube, watch the video here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 14, 2023
51 min
See And Be Seen – For The First Time (w/Dr. Angelo DiLullo)
Joined by Dr. Angelo DiLullo, your favorite ‘pair-o-docs’ dive into the paradox of self-emptying, where the journey to feeling truly recognized sparks a liberation beyond the boundaries of the ego. Plus a whole lotta taint talk 😂 Topics & Timecodes: 00:00 Taints (AKA The Perineum, if you're nasty) 06:12 Anger, reactivity, root beliefs, the illusion of control 16:52 Identity, no separation, energetic “knowing” 23:55 Deep stage awakening, the illusion of the physical world 31:35 The “flavor” of consciousness, unbound consciousness as a tool 41:19 Specialness, hide & seek, avoidance, neutrality 52:50 Emptiness of self, feeling seen 1:01:16 Fixations and the role of a spiritual teacher, delusive hindrance 1:12:29 Formless non-duality, no-self letting go, the well of grief Check out the video version (including topics & timecodes) and here's the infamous 'Taint Episode' 🥳 Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 26, 2023
1 hr 24 min
This Is A Dream, But Suffering Is REAL (LIVE)
Waking up to your true nature is all about realizing there’s no separate “you” suffering. And knowing just that transforms how you show up in the world. Spoiler alert: Compassion just flows. Video originally streamed LIVE to YouTube, watch here. Side note: This episode contains intentional stretches of silence, so when things get quiet, rest assured it's not a problem with your podcast app 🙏 Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 14, 2023
56 min
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