The Magnanimous Heart (Robert Wright & Narayan Helen Liebenson)

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4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Is Bob a bad yogi? ... Narayan's book, The Magnanimous Heart ... Narayan's journey from Janet to Narayan ... How Narayan entered contemplative practice ... Learning from snakes and lizards in Thailand ... Defining the Buddhist term dukka as "a constant squeeze" ... Dealing with feelings of grief and loss after a divorce ... Narayan: Not taking sides is not the same as passivity ... Mindfulness and the death of a loved one ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Meaning of Life TV.
0:09.2	Hello, Narayan.
0:10.9	Hi, Bob.
0:11.9	How are you doing?
0:12.9	I'm good, too. What a coincidence.
0:16.5	Let me introduce us.
0:17.5	I'm Robert Wright.
0:18.1	This is the right show available on both streaming video and
0:20.8	via audio podcast. You are Narayan Helen Liebenson. Yes. You are a guiding teacher at the Insight
0:28.8	Meditation Society in Barry, Massachusetts, very well-known Buddhist institution, and also at the
0:34.8	Cambridge Insight Meditation Center.
0:38.4	In Cambridge, Massachusetts.
0:39.9	In Cambridge, Massachusetts.
0:41.1	People should not fly to England in the hopes of getting guidance from you.
0:44.9	I'm glad we got that straight.
0:46.3	That's good.
0:48.0	And more to the point.
0:49.2	You're the author of a book we're going to talk about called the Magnanimous Heart, Compassion and Love, Loss and
0:55.3	Grief, Joy and Liberation, and also of a small kind of picture book of Buddhism that maybe
1:04.3	we'll have a chance to talk about at the end of the conversation.
1:06.9	Okay.
1:08.2	That'd be great.
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