Standing Nowhere

Jacob Buehler
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Standing Nowhere: Real Spirituality for Everyday Seekers A podcast for people exploring spirituality outside traditional church settings—where contemplative wisdom meets real life, not abstract theory. Host Jacob Buehler, a working father and longtime meditator, brings raw, honest conversations about what it means to wake up in the middle of ordinary life. Through personal stories, guest interviews, and wisdom from multiple traditions, each episode invites you to look within—not to fix yourself, but to notice your life and mind in detail. No dogma. No guru pedestals. Just genuine exploration of mindfulness, letting go, and learning to trust what remains when there's nowhere left to stand. If you've ever questioned everything and found peace in not knowing—this is for you.

  1. 6일 전

    Every Day Something Is Dropped

    Awareness is the greatest treasure in my life, and lately I've felt it getting covered up. In this episode, I talk honestly about the habits that have been dulling that clarity — caffeine, late-night routines, social media, comfort habits, and the constant pull to stay stimulated. This isn't a self-help episode, and it's not a grand declaration that I've fixed anything. It's more of a life update: a recognition that some habits don't need to be ripped away by force. Sometimes they're just ready to fall off when you finally value presence more than what's been covering it. Along the way, I reflect on the Buddha, Jesus, Paul, Lao Tzu, Alan Watts, and Osho — all pointing, in different ways, toward the same thing: awareness isn't something you manufacture. It's what remains when the noise starts to drop. Want to share a thought? Support the show --- 🔗 All links: https://linktr.ee/standingnowhere ⭐ Leave a review: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/standing-nowhere/id1822619607?action=write-review 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/standing.nowhere/ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@standingnowherepodcast 💬 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/4yfaU7x4nF 📧 Email: standingnowherepodcast@gmail.com Standing Nowhere is a contemplative spirituality podcast exploring mindfulness, meditation, and what it means to be human through vulnerable storytelling.

    24분

  2. 4월 16일

    The Skin Sheds When It's Ready

    There's a version of yourself you can see clearly — and then there's where you actually are right now. That gap can feel like failure. This episode begins with a story about a declined card on my wife's birthday, a Lord of the Rings book hidden at the bottom of a Target basket, and the quiet shame of walking back to the car with nothing. From there, it becomes a reflection on vairagya — the falling away of desire — and why transformation can't always be forced. You can't rip the skin from the snake. It sheds when it's ready. With reflections on patience, habit, self-compassion, and a closing reading from Thomas Merton. Want to share a thought? Support the show --- 🔗 All links: https://linktr.ee/standingnowhere ⭐ Leave a review: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/standing-nowhere/id1822619607?action=write-review 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/standing.nowhere/ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@standingnowherepodcast 💬 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/4yfaU7x4nF 📧 Email: standingnowherepodcast@gmail.com Standing Nowhere is a contemplative spirituality podcast exploring mindfulness, meditation, and what it means to be human through vulnerable storytelling.

    21분

  3. 4월 7일

    The Fear Is the Story

    Jacob thought the reason he hadn't done more interviews was scheduling. But one night it hit him — it wasn't really the schedule. It was fear. Not fear of talking to people, but fear of what they might bring with them. Grief. Pain. Loss. Truth. In this episode, he traces that fear back to a Lyft ride in Las Vegas he's never forgotten — a stranger gets in the car, bursts into tears, and shares a story of devastating loss. From there, Jacob reflects on compassion, what it really means to suffer with another person, and why this may be exactly where Standing Nowhere is meant to go next. Closes with a reading from Osho. Want to share a thought? Support the show --- 🔗 All links: https://linktr.ee/standingnowhere ⭐ Leave a review: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/standing-nowhere/id1822619607?action=write-review 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/standing.nowhere/ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@standingnowherepodcast 💬 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/4yfaU7x4nF 📧 Email: standingnowherepodcast@gmail.com Standing Nowhere is a contemplative spirituality podcast exploring mindfulness, meditation, and what it means to be human through vulnerable storytelling.

    18분

  4. 3월 31일

    The Avatar I Called Jacob

    For most of my life, I never questioned it. I was Jacob. My thoughts, my experiences, my feelings — that was me. Then meditation started doing something I didn't ask it to do. In this episode I'm talking about self — or more precisely, the growing suspicion that the self you've spent your whole life protecting might not be what you think it is. I share the moment this cracked open for me mid-delivery, crying alone in a car, and trace the thread through Buddhism, early Christianity, the language we use every day, and what years of daily Zazen practice have quietly done to my sense of who I am. This is not a lecture. It's an open thread. Closing with readings from Thomas Merton and Ramana Maharshi. Want to share a thought? Support the show --- 🔗 All links: https://linktr.ee/standingnowhere ⭐ Leave a review: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/standing-nowhere/id1822619607?action=write-review 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/standing.nowhere/ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@standingnowherepodcast 💬 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/4yfaU7x4nF 📧 Email: standingnowherepodcast@gmail.com Standing Nowhere is a contemplative spirituality podcast exploring mindfulness, meditation, and what it means to be human through vulnerable storytelling.

    23분

  5. 3월 24일

    Knocking From the Inside

    We act on what we perceive, not what's real. And we rarely know the difference. In this episode Jacob examines perception at every level — the stories we tell ourselves about who we are, the assumptions we make about strangers, the myths nations tell themselves about their own goodness, and the deepest illusion of all: the mind's projection of a divided reality onto what is fundamentally one. Along the way: a gas bill that wasn't overdue, the astronauts who saw no borders from space, the Vedantic concept of Maya, and three traditions — Jesus, Lao Tzu, and the Third Patriarch of Zen — arriving at the exact same place. Plus St. John of the Cross, Meister Eckhart, and a 13th century Persian poet whose civilization is being bombed right now. The rope was never a snake. But try telling that to your nervous system. Want to share a thought? Support the show --- 🔗 All links: https://linktr.ee/standingnowhere ⭐ Leave a review: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/standing-nowhere/id1822619607?action=write-review 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/standing.nowhere/ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@standingnowherepodcast 💬 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/4yfaU7x4nF 📧 Email: standingnowherepodcast@gmail.com Standing Nowhere is a contemplative spirituality podcast exploring mindfulness, meditation, and what it means to be human through vulnerable storytelling.

    39분

  6. 3월 17일

    The Map Is Not the Road

    Most of us spend our spiritual lives in the hearing and understanding phase — and never quite cross into direct experience. In this episode, Jacob opens in real time, frustrated after seven false starts, becoming the thesis of the episode before he even names it. From sitting on a cushion at 6:30am to waddling through a grocery store in compromised underwear, this is what direct experience actually looks like. Why belief won't keep you warm on a cold night. Why 100% of your thoughts are outside your control. Why the dreamer is not separate from the dream. Closes with a wisdom reading from Thomas Merton's New Seeds of Contemplation.  Want to share a thought? Support the show --- 🔗 All links: https://linktr.ee/standingnowhere ⭐ Leave a review: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/standing-nowhere/id1822619607?action=write-review 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/standing.nowhere/ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@standingnowherepodcast 💬 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/4yfaU7x4nF 📧 Email: standingnowherepodcast@gmail.com Standing Nowhere is a contemplative spirituality podcast exploring mindfulness, meditation, and what it means to be human through vulnerable storytelling.

    1시간

  7. 3월 10일

    Inamorata

    What do you do when relief finally arrives — and you find yourself reaching for a new kind of misery? In this episode, Jacob explores the concept of the inamorata: the beloved we can't quit, whether that's financial stress, comfortable numbness, collective atrocity, or the systems we refuse to dismantle. From a little girl named Sara in Iran, to AI being used for mass surveillance, to Anthropic's complicated stand against the Pentagon — this episode asks one question: are you awake, or are you just managing your awareness? Featuring Thich Nhat Hanh's "Call Me By My True Names."  Want to share a thought? Support the show --- 🔗 All links: https://linktr.ee/standingnowhere ⭐ Leave a review: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/standing-nowhere/id1822619607?action=write-review 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/standing.nowhere/ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@standingnowherepodcast 💬 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/4yfaU7x4nF 📧 Email: standingnowherepodcast@gmail.com Standing Nowhere is a contemplative spirituality podcast exploring mindfulness, meditation, and what it means to be human through vulnerable storytelling.

    1시간 7분

  8. 2월 24일

    The Patron Saint of Householders

    You don't need a retreat, a monastery, or a perfect morning routine to practice. In this episode, Jacob explores what it means to stop running — not from responsibility, but from the present moment itself. Through reflections on early mornings, financial stress, gig work, and parenting on tired legs, he unpacks the difference between surrender and avoidance, and why real practice happens right in the middle of your ordinary life — not outside of it. At the heart of the episode is the story of Dipa Ma, a woman who lost everything and found profound spiritual realization while raising a child in a tiny Calcutta apartment with no door on the bedroom. Her life points to a simple but demanding truth: you don't need to escape your circumstances to wake up. You need to meet them fully. This episode covers: Meditation in daily life and what it actually looks likeThe identifying trap and spiritual bypassingSurrender vs. passivity — and why they're not the same thingParenting as presenceActing from stillness (wu wei)Closing with Tao Te Ching Verse 48If you've ever felt like you need to fix your life before you can practice, this episode is for you. Want to share a thought? Support the show --- 🔗 All links: https://linktr.ee/standingnowhere ⭐ Leave a review: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/standing-nowhere/id1822619607?action=write-review 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/standing.nowhere/ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@standingnowherepodcast 💬 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/4yfaU7x4nF 📧 Email: standingnowherepodcast@gmail.com Standing Nowhere is a contemplative spirituality podcast exploring mindfulness, meditation, and what it means to be human through vulnerable storytelling.

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Standing Nowhere: Real Spirituality for Everyday Seekers A podcast for people exploring spirituality outside traditional church settings—where contemplative wisdom meets real life, not abstract theory. Host Jacob Buehler, a working father and longtime meditator, brings raw, honest conversations about what it means to wake up in the middle of ordinary life. Through personal stories, guest interviews, and wisdom from multiple traditions, each episode invites you to look within—not to fix yourself, but to notice your life and mind in detail. No dogma. No guru pedestals. Just genuine exploration of mindfulness, letting go, and learning to trust what remains when there's nowhere left to stand. If you've ever questioned everything and found peace in not knowing—this is for you.

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    Jacob Buehler
  • 방송 연도
    2025년 - 2026년
  • 에피소드
    41
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    © 2026 Standing Nowhere
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