There was a time in my life when I actively felt aversion for entire people, for everything about them, and I felt justified in doing so.
Matthew Hahn
October 18, 2024
There was a time in my life when I actively felt aversion for entire people, for everything about them, and I felt justified in doing so.
Perhaps there is a sense that the suffering just keeps tumbling toward you as the prison system perpetually churns out wounded people. I get that. The carceral wheel of samsara
If the present is the inheritance of the past, and the future is the inheritance of the present, doesn’t this mean that the future is the inheritance of the past?
I was facing many centuries in prison under California’s three strikes law. My suffering was inescapable. It was time to do something different.
Join Jeannine Coulter and I as we discuss my addiction and recovery story. From meth monsters to sobriety, nighttime crime sprees to Buddhist meditation, and from Alcoholics Anonymous to Recovery
Two formerly incarcerated people talk about addiction, crime, prison, firefighting, recovery, Buddhism, and service.
The story of Matthew’s arrest and near-miss with life in prison has been the subject of numerous podcasts, but in this session, we’ll be talking to him about how the
If my prison story isn’t in service to something transformative, I am not interested in sharing it. Mine is a path of transformation and of love.
If my prison story isn’t in service to something transformative, I am not interested in sharing it. Mine is a path of transformation and of love.
Matthew Hahn has been many things in his lifetime. A career criminal and drug addict, a selfless man of courage, a convict, a devout Buddhist, a recovered drug addict, and
This podcast with Sam Lamott was recorded almost two years ago, just before the pandemic. I’ve done a good number of interviews over the years, but this one was special.
My response to suicidal ideation was that there must’ve been something severely wrong with me. That I was broken.
While Hahnscratch focuses primarily on my time in prison, Dirty Hands Clean Dharma looks at personal transformation.
My grief was none other than love that I didn’t want to feel. Love that was so great it felt too dangerous to allow out.
We begin to question certainty in anything, understanding that certainty moves a person down the continuum toward violence.
My distorted reflection stared back at me between the swirls of scratches and etched graffiti that marred its surface. I hated shaving.
Join Matt Hahn for a conversation with Emma Barnett on BBC 5 Live.
Matt Hahn and Rachael O’Brien discuss addiction, crime, prison, and redemption.
You will learn to hate, he told me. And it would happen without my knowing it.
I used to dream about being free. Early on, while I was still facing a life sentence and had yet to be sentenced to prison, I dreamt of the miraculous.
Patrick Michael Brady. The Irish Italian stallion from Monte Sereno, California. Our friendship started during the second grade, back before his eye surgery, back when he wore the most ridiculously