3357: The Zen Dilemma by Mark Manson on Mindfulness & Self-Identity

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🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3357: Mark Manson explores the paradox many face when engaging with Zen philosophy and meditation: the struggle between detachment from desires and living responsibly. He offers a nuanced explanation of how to approach attachment and the present moment, emphasizing that it's not about removing ambition, but recognizing that clinging to outcomes or self-identity through achievements leads to suffering. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://markmanson.net/the-zen-dilemma Quotes to ponder: “It’s not about doing or not doing. It’s all about how much of your sense of Self, your identity is attached to the outcome of what you do or don’t do.” “Being present isn’t ignoring the past or the future. That’s impossible actually, because the act of thinking about a past or a future is actually taking place in the present.” “Have your career goals, thoughts and ideas, your hopes and dreams, but don’t attach the Self to it in such a way that you’ll suffer if you don’t achieve them.” Episode references: The Power of Now: https://www.amazon.com/Power-Now-Guide-Spiritual-Enlightenment/dp/1577314808 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.6	The Zen Delema by Mark Manson of Mark Manson.
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0:30.8	I'm your narrator Justin Molick.
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0:47.0	The Zen Delema by Mark Manson of Mark Manson. net.
0:55.0	I received an interesting email from a friend today.
0:59.0	He just started getting into meditation and has bumped up against an issue a lot of people run into.
1:05.0	Quote, I've been reading Eckart Tole's book on The Power of Now and it's got me thinking
1:11.3	about Zen philosophy again.
1:13.0	I heard that you used to practice meditation quite a bit and I wanted to ask you about it.
1:18.0	Zen is contradictory to most of the philosophy I invest in but it's unclear whether or not it has to be exclusive.
1:27.0	One struggle I have is the idea that ruminating in the past or future is detrimental to one's overall consciousness even when it is positive.
1:37.0	Tulli says the idea of a future heaven creates a present hell. Does attachment need to be taken to this extreme?
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