Stephen Batchelor - Meditation and the Skeptical Buddhist
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4.3 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2016
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:30.1 | Hello everyone and welcome to Untangle, the meditation podcast from Guyam. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm your host, Patricia Carpice. |
| 0:37.0 | In this series, we introduce you to real people |
| 0:39.7 | with extraordinary stories and experts who have devoted their lives to teaching and helping |
| 0:44.6 | others through meditation. In today's episode, I sat down with Stephen Batchelor. Steven's an author, |
| 0:51.6 | teacher, and scholar. He's written several books and articles on Buddhist topics and leads meditation retreats throughout the world. |
| 0:59.7 | He's also a noted proponent of secular Buddhism and refers to himself as a skeptical Buddhist. |
| 1:06.0 | He's here to tell us what that means and give us his own take on meditation. |
| 1:13.5 | Stephen, it is such a pleasure to have you here today. Thank you so much for coming in. |
| 1:18.1 | Thank you, Patricia. Yeah, I know you're a scholar and an author and a teacher of Buddhism. |
| 1:24.8 | You say that you're a skeptical Buddhist, and I think that ties into how some people think about |
| 1:29.7 | meditation, so I'd love for you to talk about what a skeptical Buddhist is. Okay, I'm a skeptic |
| 1:36.2 | in some senses, but I take the word not in the trivial sense that it's often used. In other words, |
| 1:42.3 | I can't trust this, I don't like that. This is a load of |
| 1:45.1 | bologna. Rather, in the original Greek sense, skeptic means a person who questions, a person |
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