Contemplative Practice and Political Struggle
Rev Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2021
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Jay Michaelson is a journalist, meditation teacher, author of many books, and worked as an LGBTQ activist for ten years.
Jay holds a Ph.D. in religion from Hebrew University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, a nondenominational rabbinic ordination, and is authorized to teach in the Theravadan Buddhist lineage.
Jay joins Breht to discuss spirituality, grief and suffering, Judaism and Buddhism, the importance of collective political struggle, what meditation can offer organizers/activists, and much more!
Find out more about Jay here: https://www.jaymichaelson.net/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev. Left Radio. On today's episode I have on Rabbi, |
| 0:11.3 | meditation teacher, lawyer, activist and many other things, Jay Michelson, to talk about the |
| 0:18.5 | intersection of spirituality, religion and political struggle, the role that capitalism plays |
| 0:25.2 | in climate change, some of our political disagreements come out which is really fun to go back and forth |
| 0:30.4 | a little bit on and we just cover a lot of ground including of course spiritual and religious |
| 0:35.3 | suffering and how to turn suffering into something productive that can be used to alleviate the |
| 0:41.1 | suffering of others. So all in all this is a really fun wide-ranging conversation with a really |
| 0:46.8 | cool intelligent and insightful and just overall friendly human being so I think everybody will |
| 0:53.6 | really enjoy this and as always if you like what we do here at Rev. Left Radio you can support us by |
| 0:58.4 | going to patreon.com forward slash Rev. Left Radio signing up to the Patreon in an exchange for a |
| 1:04.4 | few dollars a month you get access to bonus content. We are 100% listener funded, always will be so |
| 1:11.6 | it's incredibly important and appreciated to get that level of support and if you can't give |
| 1:16.4 | it financially doing something as simple as sharing these episodes with a friend or leaving a |
| 1:22.1 | positive review on iTunes can be very helpful. You know we have a funny little rating where the vast |
| 1:28.1 | majority of our ratings are five stars and then we have barely any two three or four stars and |
| 1:33.5 | then we have like a significant portion of zero stars or one star whatever and those are all from |
| 1:38.8 | you know right wing people sometimes we'll have waves of them coming in and downgrading the show |
| 1:44.4 | to try to make us look shittier and to decrease our reach etc so every positive a review goes a |
| 1:50.8 | long way encounter acting that nonsense and we really appreciate it so without further ado here's |
| 1:56.5 | my discussion with Jay Michelson. Hi I'm Jay Michelson I'm a meditation teacher former LGBTQ activist |
| 2:11.1 | and a my colonist for a New York magazine. Yeah well welcome to the show Jay it's an honor and a |
| 2:15.6 | pleasure to have you on I think we're going to have a really interesting conversation you come out |
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