Meditation Retreats (Robert Wright & Josh Summers)

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4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2019

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Common misconceptions about meditation retreats ... Hitting the bliss button ... Scheduled vs. unscheduled retreats ... How austere does it have to be to be effective? ... Process vs. outcomes ... Bob's mini-epiphany about his dripping sink ... Is meditation "for" something? ... Pitfalls after leaving a retreat ... Tips for first-timers ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Meaning of Life TV.
0:09.0	Hi, Josh.
0:10.3	Hey, Bob.
0:11.3	How you doing?
0:12.6	Pretty good.
0:13.2	How are you?
0:13.5	You look remarkably calm and...
0:17.1	Economist?
0:18.1	Yeah, uncommonly equanimous.
0:19.9	What's up?
0:20.4	I feel super equanimous. Yeah, let me equanimous. What's up? I feel super equanimous.
0:22.5	Yeah, let me tell you what's up.
0:24.7	First, let me introduce us.
0:25.6	I'm Robert Wright.
0:26.2	This is a right show available on both streaming video and via audio podcast.
0:29.8	You are Josh Summers, a meditation teacher, yoga teacher.
0:34.4	And we're going to talk about meditation retreats.
0:37.2	I just got back from one, a 10-day
0:40.7	retreat a few days ago, and that's what put me in the mind to talk about them. You're an
0:45.3	appropriate person to talk to for a number of reasons, not just that you are a meditator and have
0:49.9	been to a lot of retreats and a meditation teacher and a yoga teacher in, I guess, the Yen
0:56.3	yoga tradition. Is that right? The currently hot Yen yoga space. The hot Yin yoga space.
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