Getting curious about how we learn, by Rohan Gunatillake
Meditative Story
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🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
As he helps his youngest child prepare for her first day of school, Rohan offers us all a chance to practice three unique approaches to learning. Whether we’re hearing a new idea, analyzing that new idea, or putting that idea into practice, the steps laid out in today’s meditation lead us towards deeper understanding. Above all, Rohan suggests infusing our studies, or mindfulness practice, with a sense of play, a sense of fun, which can help us eagerly seek out opportunities to refine our skills.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Rohan. |
| 0:02.0 | With some exciting news to share, Meditative Story is now on YouTube, so you can now experience |
| 0:08.9 | full length stories with gorgeous visual backgrounds, short clips from our storytellers, and even |
| 0:14.7 | some meditation videos from me, which I love to record out in nature. |
| 0:20.1 | We hope you'll come along for this new venture. |
| 0:22.6 | You can follow the channel at www.meditativestory.com, that's meditativestory.com, www.meditativestory.com, |
| 0:30.2 | www.meditativestory.com, www.meditativestory.com |
| 0:32.6 | Thank you for joining us for today's meditation. |
| 0:36.7 | If you're looking for a classic meditative story, we invite you to explore the rest of our |
| 0:41.7 | library. |
| 0:42.7 | It's one of those cliches you hear when you have kids. |
| 0:51.9 | Oh, they grow up so fast. |
| 0:55.2 | But when they're tiny and you're resting diapers and hoping the ratio of food in stomach |
| 1:00.8 | to food across the kitchen floor is at least one to one. |
| 1:05.2 | It doesn't feel like things are going quickly at all. |
| 1:10.0 | Then you blink, and suddenly your youngest, whose first day is feel just like yesterday, |
| 1:17.1 | is starting school. |
| 1:19.4 | I guess they're cliches for a reason. |
| 1:23.8 | With the back to school vibe floating through our house and through our neighborhood, it |
| 1:29.2 | has me contemplating how learning works, how something moves from being a thing we just |
| 1:35.4 | hear about to something we know deeply for ourselves. |
| 1:49.2 | So fear, my youngest, is starting school for the first time this week. |
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