Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life. I'm your host

Cori Muscarra and in today's episode we are going to talk about how if mindfulness can make you a better person.

More to come on that in a moment, but first it is Two Bell Tuesday. Yes, everyone's favorite day of the week. Why?

Because we get two bells instead of the usual one.

So in a moment, I am going to grace your ears

with the velvety, luscious sound of a meditation bill.

And you're not gonna get it just once but you're going to get it twice.

And when you do bring your full presence, your full awareness to the sound of the bell until that second bell dissolves all the way back into silence.

Here it comes. D. You're going to be. Thank you two bell Tuesday. Now on to the less exciting part of this podcast episode, which is the actual content.

In today's session, as I said, we're going to talk about mindfulness and its relationship to making you a better

person, ethics. Now if you're not in the mindfulness world or the Buddhist, the

darma world or contemplative practices, that space.

You might not be aware of this

I've been a lot of philosophical debates and often very

I don't know philosophical debates and often very heated

debates around teaching mindfulness

without simultaneously teaching ethics.

A bit of background into why that's a point of contention, even though mindfulness is not

exclusive to any particular religion, some of the best articulations of it do come from the Buddhist tradition, which is

why I ended up spending time on Buddhist retreats and living as a Buddhist monk for a period of time just because if you really want to go into meditation and mindfulness that is one of the best traditions to explore.

And as mindfulness was being taught, to explore it.

And as mindfulness was being taught in more of a secular way, a lot of the teachers that

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