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Duncan Trussell Family Hour

286: Meditation Class with David Nichtern

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

Comedy Interviews, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Comedy

4.811K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2018

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

If you're interested in learning the basics of meditation them this DTFH is for you. David Nichtern is a senior meditation teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. He's also my friend and was kind enough to sit down with me and allow me to record a semi-formal meditation training. He's teaching some classes in Los Angeles this summer. I'll be at the one in June.

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0:00.0

Nautic nature is ever changing and unpredictable, shifting between wind, sun and rain.

0:07.9

But one thing is certain, this landscape shares its goodness with us all.

0:12.8

Yard is the delicious plant-based oat drink, made with symbol all natural ingredients,

0:18.5

and organic oats grown and harvested in Nordic fields.

0:22.4

Yard, inspired by Nordic nature, find it in the chill, derri alternative's aisle.

0:29.4

Hello, my sweet children of Poseidon.

0:32.0

It is I, Detrussell, and I'm recording this DTFH from Maui.

0:37.3

You might even hear the ocean in the background.

0:39.6

I'm sitting in a little yurt right on the sea, where I have driven my van and where I've

0:46.4

been hanging out for the last few days, commuting with nature, but most importantly,

0:50.8

commuting with my surf pros who gave me a new name, Bonzo.

0:55.2

I love surfing, I love catching shore breaks from the eastern side, and I love the feeling

1:00.1

of riding a wave in and sliding down that tube.

1:04.0

Most importantly, I love the community of surfers that I've met out here in Hawaii.

1:08.8

I deliver to you people of the mainland a message, wherever you may be.

1:13.6

The surfers of Hawaii want you to come out and join them in the waves.

1:19.2

They want you to know that the stories about them being cagey and territorial, potentially

1:24.8

even violent or completely not true.

1:28.7

These surfers love nothing more than meeting new friends out there on the water, and many

1:33.6

of these surfers would rather float out there in the water and chat with new surfers than

1:38.4

actually surf.

1:39.4

They want you to know that the best thing you could do to make their day is to paddle

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