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Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

John Butler - How to Stay Humble in Spiritual Pursuits and Learn to Love the Silence

Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

Mo Gawdat

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4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week, I speak with John Butler in what may be the most genuinely Slo Mo episode to date. Recorded in Bakewell Parish Church, a place filled with prayers of the hopeful going back over a thousand years, this conversation is an honest perspective and retrospective on the purpose of our existence, and nothing less.John Butler has been practicing meditation for nearly 60 years. Now in his eighties - a self-proclaimed 'little boy with a grey beard' and humbled back into innocence, he shares h...

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0:00.0

I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

0:16.3

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

0:20.3

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

0:25.7

Welcome to slow more. So I'm in a holy place in a beautiful part of the world with an incredible amazing being in the most unexpected way

0:49.2

as I told you earlier Danny my friend introduced me to John who I would hope one day will also consider me a friend and

0:59.0

John is in his 80s, he doesn't look it, clearly, and he is a YouTube sensation.

1:07.4

He teaches us about spirituality, meditation, really connecting with the self in ways that I found so inspiring

1:18.0

that I decided it was worth to take the trip all the way to come and meet him where he teaches, where he tells us,

1:27.2

what I believe is the truth.

1:29.1

So we are in Bakewell, somewhere near Manchester, don't quote me on my geography, I have no idea where that is.

1:38.2

I met John. A while back we tried to film this on the hill and then due to our luck it was windy and so we ended up in this beautiful beautiful house of God.

1:52.0

And John comes here twice a day to meditate and teach

1:55.0

meditation and I think that will be probably one of my very very important

2:00.2

investigations today to try and understand meditation in a church seems to be an interesting

2:09.7

meeting of if you want east and West in our world today.

2:13.4

But I want to start by saying thank you so much for giving me the time.

2:17.6

Thank you so much for the wisdom that you share with the world.

2:20.4

It's been quite shocking really how much of our world is moving in a

2:28.0

direction where they they need more and more of what you teach us John but I want to start from here can you

2:35.5

tell me a little bit about this beautiful place.

2:39.4

Well I can move but may I first of all correct a little bit of your introduction?

2:45.1

Absolutely.

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