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Robert Wright's Nonzero

The Dharma of Bob 5: Mindful Defiance (Robert Wright & Josh Summers)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Josh tries to help Bob retool his meditation practice ... Identifying the purpose of your practice ... What to do when your mind wanders ... Tuning your mind ... The Four Rs ... Can mindfulness help us bolster our courage? ... Learning to tolerate blowback from your tribe ... Suffering and the psychology of tribalism ... Developing a non-zero-sum relationship with your own mind ... So you say you've been called a neofascist... ...

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0:00.0

You're listening to a podcast from Meaning of Life TV.

0:08.3

Hi, Josh.

0:10.0

Hey, Bob.

0:10.9

How are you doing?

0:12.4

I'm pretty tired.

0:13.4

How are you doing?

0:14.7

I can't complain.

0:15.9

I'm actually not so tired as I usually am.

0:19.9

So, but let me introduce this. I'm Robert Wright. This is the right show available on both

0:23.5

streaming video and via audio podcasts. You're Josh Summers, well known to our regular viewers and

0:29.7

listeners. We've spoken before. You're like a yoga guy, yin yoga guru guy. You're seated, like we should tell our podcast listeners,

0:40.2

you are seated as a guru would be seated on the floor. Yes, this is, well, given the back and

0:46.1

forth we had as set up for this installment of the Dharma of Bob, I thought I might need to occupy

0:52.1

a little bit more of guru territory today.

0:55.8

So, job somebody's got to do.

1:00.1

And then maybe you're going to explain to me how to do it, as I understand, if we have time for that.

1:14.4

So you're going to, today, you're going to, we've had a series of conversations loosely grouped under the rubric the Dharma of Bob, a term you came up with, I always point out.

1:24.2

Today, maybe the Dharma Bob part won't pop up immediately. I would like to do a couple things.

1:28.9

I want you to be, if we have time, I want you to be life coach in a couple of sentences. First of all, help me with some meditation problems I'm having right now. My practice

1:34.9

isn't in great shape. And then if we have time at the end, you can be life coaching this deeper

1:42.9

sense that you alluded to in our pre-taping pattern,

1:47.9

where you said you had, you have big plans for me, which is good.

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