Mark Vernon - Living on the Edge of the Circle (NS35)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 ā¢ 658 Ratings
šļø 3 May 2017
ā±ļø 12 minutes
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Summary
At our recent offline Gathering, Mark Vernon - former AnglicanĀ Priest, turned atheist, turned Christian agnostic - led us in a Buddhist inspiredĀ meditation. To get the full benefit from this, you might want to sit near some other people (e.g. in a cafe, the library, or park, etc.) as it's all about how we perceive ourselves in relation to others.Ā
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| 0:00.0 | Nomad Spirituality |
| 0:17.0 | Okay everyone, I think we're going to go into a time of meditation now, led by Mark. |
| 0:25.5 | So if you want to find a seat, make yourselves comfortable. |
| 0:31.3 | Hand you over to Mark. |
| 0:35.9 | So this is a bit of an experiment, so try and make the most of it even where it falls short. |
| 0:42.3 | But I thought we might try to do just a five-minute meditation that I hope might give you a felt sense of this skeptic idea about living on the edge of the circle. |
| 0:58.0 | Do you remember the idea that inside the circle is what you think you know? |
| 1:02.0 | Outside the circle is what's less known, unknown, and the art of living is to live on the edge of the circle. |
| 1:09.0 | And so I thought what we might try and do is use the fact that we're gathering |
| 1:14.3 | where there's lots of people we don't know. |
| 1:16.5 | Maybe some people you do know who you've come with, but a lot of people you don't know, |
| 1:19.8 | and see whether we can incorporate that into a sort of meditation that takes us to this balance |
| 1:25.6 | between what we think we do know and what we don't know. |
| 1:28.3 | So it's just going to be five minutes or so, and maybe like two or three steps. |
| 1:34.3 | So trust me. |
| 1:37.0 | And we'll see what happens. |
| 1:38.3 | See what happens. |
| 1:38.9 | See what happens. So if you do meditate, then you just sit comfortably, |
| 1:45.0 | you know, a bit more of an upright position, |
| 1:47.0 | a bit better, feet on the ground probably, |
| 1:50.0 | and shut your eyes or maybe just look down a bit. |
| 1:54.0 | Certainly look down actually, that's part of the meditation. |
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