So nice to hear someone delving into the teachings of Nagarjuna so unabashedly

I love how Elizabeth teaches the dharma as she’s totally grateful to share it with us. A fine teacher.

Elizabeth, amazingly helpful with my practice!!!! So sweet, so gentle. Barbara

Love the message! Thank you Elizabeth!

Wonderful interview where I felt such wisdom and inspiration from both Elizabeth and Anam Thubten.

Beautiful podcast that is very accessible - I love the interview format - while touching into deep teachings, questions, and possible truths.

Elizabeth states that she and Anam Thubten are "Heart Friends"...it certainly seems that way in this interview. I feel like I'm sitting at the table with them. Anam Thubten is a master of presenting the essence of whatever he is talking about...the bare and beautiful truth always right there in his tone of voice. Its a special opportunity to hear these teachers discuss the Dharma and share their observations about practice and students in an informal setting. Looking forward to the second part of the conversation! So far, Open Question really has my attention.

From the moment the podcast started to the end of the first episode I felt totally engaged, invigorated and drawn into this world of open potential. Elizabeth is not only inspiring to me but comes from her experience. I met her over twenty years ago. She walks her talk. If you are looking to find a way to navigate this rapidly changing world with an open, alive, warm, heart, Elizabeth is very clear and open and is able to guide us. Thank you Elizabeth. I love the music and episode when you were outside including nature in your podcast. I was right there with you!

Elizabeth is a loving presence in my life for as long as I have known her! Can never repay her kindness!

From the first moments, Eliz brings you from ‘virtual space’ onto the earth in Spring, thus saying, “this is an embodied, personal, revelatory experience.” We aren’t ‘talked to’, but welcomed into a slower, happier, informal and authentic world where we can resituate ourselves into a wide and open heart and mind. As a professor of 25 years, I can unequivocally say, Elizabeth is a wonderful teacher. Listen and hang out with her heart and mind. You’ll be glad you did!

I love this podcast! Very timely and poignant. I’m really looking forward to the guided meditation episodes. Love the music as well!

I appreciated Lorain’s reminder to hold our ancestors in our hearts and minds as a way to feel their presence and support, always but also now during these trying times. They truly are ever present. Thank you for this offering.

Thanks Elizabeth for these conversations. They provoke both fresh and familiar reflections and are so poignant in this magical sacred pause.

I so appreciated this exchange. It felt so palpable the collected wisdom and knowledge. I liked the suggested questions that we could be asking, What can I do during this time? What can I let go of? Taking this time as an opportunity to look within and go deeper into ourselves or our practices. It was an intimate sharing with potant stories woven in. I highly recommend listening to A Moment of High Magic more than once. Thank you, I feel so fortunate.

I have been listening to Elizabeth’s teachings for many years and was looking forward to seeing how she would approach this interview format. The first podcast with Lorain Fox Davis shows her natural ability to create a space for open, inquisitive dialogue between wise people. Every phase of their conversation was meaningful to me and perfectly attuned to the need for an uplifted perspective during this disorienting, magical time. I look forward to more!

Thank you Elizabeth for these beautiful first 2 podcasts. Bringing fresh air and fresh ideas to our inner world of self-exploration. Looking forward to the next episode. Music is delightful

Elizabeth’s declaration of mind’s potential for curiosity and wonder is what’s needed during these uncertain times. I appreciate her challenge to remain open to what each moment brings.

Thank you for offering this at the most sacred moment in our lives. This is a gift for us to feel and know that we are all connected.

Thank you Elizabeth for taking your journey, exploration, insights and wisdom to the airwaves through this Pod cast! It is such a joy to come along and explore through Open Question! I am looking forward to hear more, question and discover! Thank you for your unwavering commitment to look deeply at this world, life and mind with joyful awe!

Lovely presentation; a calmness and also deeply thought provoking. Elizabeth's compassion, insight and joy shines through the podcast. Easy to listen to and understand... look forward to exploring more open questions....

Love this podcast! Listening to Elizabeth and Lorain Fox Davis in the first episode, I felt deeply moved and also inspired to experience and engage this world in a fresh, openhearted way. Their words and energy sparked tremendous appreciation, curiosity and joy. Looking forward to future episodes!

Just what we need when we lose sight of the possibility our lives hold. Wise voices that remind us to open to our experience. I look forward to more open questions.

Elizabeth’s constant commitment to asking questions and sharing her exploration of the world, herself, and what it can mean to be a human being living in this powerful time, is clear in these honest and warm dialogues. Each conversation offers personal, down to earth, and also uplifting perspectives. Thank you for the chance to hear them!

Elizabeth’s genuine curiosity to living fully and openly, while intertwining decades of Buddhist practice and study, comes through easily in this podcast. As Elizabeth said herself, “The purpose of open question is to recognize the inner brilliance of oneself and each other. And to engage the process of open questioning together.” I, personally, am looking forward to diving into each one of these podcasts. They are a real treat for anyone who enjoys an engaging dialog, open inquiry, and being left with a bit of awe.

Great podcast, I really needed this today, full of wisdom and perspective.

This podcast came at the perfect time. I am currently going on week 7 or 8 quarantined in NYC. I have been listening to Elizabeth's teachings for years, and she has really helped me learn to find calm and joy within myself regardless of my circumstances. I am so happy this is getting out into the world. It is perfect for fans of Tara Brach who are interested in exploring new teachers. I wish there was some guided meditation! That is the only part I felt could have been improved.

Elizabeths voice is a vital one. A modern day woman who has spent decades as a Vajrayan practitioner. Her level of experience and practice are something we haven't heard before and I believe to be a very important one. Do listen. Look forward to following along!

With her warm, courageous, and playful style, Elizabeth invites us to explore a deeper level of consciousness for navigating these extraordinary times. She gathers powerful teachers from a variety of wisdom traditions to a dialogue that offers thoughtful and practical guidance for how to engage more deeply with ourselves and our world. Thank you Elizabeth!

Elizabeth's voice is so soothing, and I found this podcast to be extremely calming during these chaotic times.

Both of these womens' voices are so inspiring. Their clarity, gentleness and ease to live in this chaotic world with such a bright vision is just what I need to hear.

Thank you Elizabeth for this wonderful offering! We listened to both of them back to back last evening and loved them! We look forward to when you interview ATR 🙏 May this reach many ❤️✨ Much gratitude, Megan & Rob Larson

This was a breath of fresh air. I found Elizabeth's inquiring style to be very relaxing and supportive of my practice. Elizabeth's engagement with her guests was really inspiring and I found myself quite fully riveted!

I am very moved by this podcast. It takes on a fresh, authentic voice. I want to listen to it again to capture more of the practical wisdom for my day to day!

Beautiful and so timely!! Thank you!!

I listened to this a second time so I could enjoy the feeling of calm and deep breaths I felt the first time through. Elizabeth is such a gracious, intelligent host, and there's so much depth of wisdome offered from both sides of the conversation. Can't wait for the next episode! Thank you.

Thoughtful, timely, and insightful. A wonderful exploration of how we face ourselves and the world around us in these wild times.

Wonderful, Touching, Beautiful and heart felt.

Elizabeth's cheerful and refreshing presence is uplifting and reassuring in these difficult times. You can even just feel it in the quality of her voice. After I listened to the first few episodes, I found myself slowing down and paying closer attention to the things that really matter in my life in a way that I normally don't. I cannot say how welcome this is in my life. As her first podcast, it is surprisingly well put together. Her interview style is gentle and generous, drawing out gems of wisdom of her guests. I am excited to see where the podcast goes next!

I listened to A Call to Inner Brilliance and loved it. I was particularly struck by the description of what it means to navigate our lives with a mind that is open to all the unexpected moments that happen every day. In this first talk, Elizabeth takes us through an ordinary, you might say humdrum, day and shines a light on all the unanticipated moments that are constantly happening. It opened my mind in a very simple yet profound way. I look forward to continuing this exploration of the open question with her.

I’m so happy to to listen in to these wise and warm conversations about navigating human experience with openness and appreciation. Thank you for this offering Elizabeth and all!

I love Elizabeth's way of weaveing her wisdom with the current situation and her lived experience. I could relate to what she was saying and felt ease and relief as I leaned into the curiosity she encourages. Look forward to listening to more!

Listening to this podcast made me feel warm and happy. Thank you for sharing your beautiful being with us!

Listening to Elizabeth’s voice, I experience a calmness in my morning. I loved every moment as though we were sitting together, walking together. Spending our morning together. Looking forward to the next one. Beautifully creative!

Thank you for this gorgeous offering ... your open questions resonate so deeply with how I’d most like to navigate this time and I look forward to hearing more. Much appreciation!

I enjoyed listening to this podcast very much! Elizabeth’s voice comes across alive and warm. The content of the interview is deep, current and accesible to all. The music is beautiful, which combined with the sound of Elizabeth’s voice and the dynamic conversations created a soothing and fulfilling experience for me. It is refreshing to listen to a Buddhist teacher share wisdom in such a creative and skillful way. I felt inspired, open and uplifted. Thank you for this offering to the world. I can't wait to listen to more episodes!

I'm very enthused about this podcast! I love Elizabeth's warmth and presence as an interviewer. What I've heard so far in terms of content and production is captivating, fresh and first rate. I love that she is interviewing such an interesting variety of people from rich and diverse traditions. I'm very much looking forward to following this podcast.

This podcast was mind opening! Elizabeth inspires with her words of wisdom and I truly will not forget it. Looking forward to listening to more:)

I love the first episode. The music is fantastic, looking forward to hearing more from this composer! Elizabeth brings a refreshing attitude to the world of podcasts focusing on opening one mind and heart.

Although I’m not able to accurately assess anyone else’s qualities, in my personal experience, Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel has consistently been one of the most inspiring examples of naturalness and depth. Her rigorous study and passionate exploration of the Middle Way teachings of the Buddha always seem inseparable from a heartfelt urgency to merge these teachings with her lived experience, which very much includes how she uplifts and serves others with bodhichitta. Elizabeth has a burning enthusiasm to see the Dharma in everything she experiences, yet without deluding or distorting the authentic lineage teachings even slightly. Her awe of experience is contagious, and her genuine, unfabricated humility clearly indicates how much she cherishes the inconceivably vast and profound teachings of the Buddha and Guru Rinpoche. Elizabeth never lets herself off the hook, taking the easy way out with rote answers or photocopied approximations, but instead continues to seek the elegant poise of fresh, adventurous inquiry that joyfully leans into the unknown with playful curiosity and razor sharp vision. She seems to thrive on the challenge of being present without any safety net, never allowing mere knowledge of Dharma to be enough—it has to be a fresh, real time engagement with precisely what’s happening right now, which is why I’m very excited to listen to her podcasts in conversation with other deep thinkers and spiritual practitioners of various faiths, traditions, specialties, and backgrounds. Her unwillingness to compromise depth or get stuck in easy answers highlights Elizabeth’s spacious flexibility, her appreciation of vivid openness, and her love for others and the world, allowing everything to be as it is: dynamic, creative, messy, unpredictable, and always teeming with life and new opportunities to embody the vast and profound lineage wisdom of the Buddhadharma here and now.

Totally original!