{"id":8889,"date":"2019-10-04T09:30:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T16:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dharmarealm.com\/?p=8889"},"modified":"2019-10-31T15:40:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T22:40:43","slug":"merit-practices-with-special-guest-natalie-fisk-quli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dharmarealm.com\/?p=8889","title":{"rendered":"Merit practices, with special guest Natalie Fisk Quli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s our second episode with our special guest, Dr. Natalie Fisk Quli. We\u2019re continuing our conversation about authenticity, this time around beginning with a conversation about merit, merit accumulation and transference, in the Mahayana and Theravada traditions. This gets us going into other weird and cool places like economic models for karma, the declining age of the dharma, how texts and monks function as fields of merit, and colonialism and Orientalism. Oh, and because it would be the DharmaRealm without a little nerdiness, D&amp;D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out Dr. Quli\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dharmarealm.com\/?p=8878\">last episode<\/a>, and stick around! She\u2019ll be back for one more!<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_94\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8889-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/dharmarealm\/www.dharmarealm.com\/podcast\/episode_107.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/dharmarealm\/www.dharmarealm.com\/podcast\/episode_107.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/dharmarealm\/www.dharmarealm.com\/podcast\/episode_107.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/dharmarealm\/www.dharmarealm.com\/podcast\/episode_107.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.dharmarealm.com\/?powerpress_pinw=8889-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/dharmarealm\/www.dharmarealm.com\/podcast\/episode_107.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"episode_107.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 31:21 &#8212; 36.2MB) | <a href=\"#\" class=\"powerpress_link_e\" title=\"Embed\" onclick=\"return powerpress_show_embed('8889-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_embed_box\" id=\"powerpress_embed_8889-podcast\" style=\"display: none;\"><input id=\"powerpress_embed_8889-podcast_t\" type=\"text\" value=\"&lt;div class=&quot;powerpress_player&quot; id=&quot;powerpress_player_95&quot;&gt;&lt;audio class=&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot; id=&quot;audio-8889-2&quot; preload=&quot;none&quot; style=&quot;width: 100%;&quot; controls=&quot;controls&quot;&gt;&lt;source type=&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot; src=&quot;http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/dharmarealm\/www.dharmarealm.com\/podcast\/episode_107.mp3?_=2&quot; \/&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/dharmarealm\/www.dharmarealm.com\/podcast\/episode_107.mp3&quot;&gt;http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/dharmarealm\/www.dharmarealm.com\/podcast\/episode_107.mp3&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/audio&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;\" onclick=\"javascript: this.select();\" onfocus=\"javascript: this.select();\" style=\"width: 70%;\" readOnly><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/the-dharmarealm\/id276896060?mt=2&amp;ls=1#episodeGuid=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dharmarealm.com%2F%3Fp%3D8889\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dharmarealm.com\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s our second episode with our special guest, Dr. Natalie Fisk Quli. 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