[Unedited] America Ferrera and John Paul Lederach with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

“Our discomfort and our grappling is not a sign of failure,” America Ferrera says, “it’s a sign that we’re living at the edge of our imaginations.” She is a culture-shifting actor and artist. John Paul Lederach is one of our greatest living architects of social transformation. From the inaugural On Being Gathering, a revelatory, joyous exploration of the ingredients of social courage and how change really happens in generational time. This interview originally aired in June 2018.

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0:00.0	Support for On Being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the spiritual foundation for a loving world.
0:07.0	Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding principle and animating force for our lives,
0:13.0	a powerful love that helps us live in sacred relationship with ourselves, others, and the natural world.
0:19.0	Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.
0:22.0	I'm Christa Tippett. Up next, my unedited conversation with artistic conflict transformer,
0:28.0	John Paul Letterac, and conflict transforming artist, America Ferreira.
0:33.0	There is a shorter produced version of this wherever you found this podcast.
0:37.0	Thank you.
0:46.0	I had no idea what Christa had in mind when she said,
0:49.0	Hi-Ku, Monday morning.
0:52.0	So this is titled Monday Hi-Ku's.
0:56.0	The story is told of the master Basha and his disciple, Kikaku.
1:03.0	Of the morning that Kikaku came back from the fields and said,
1:07.0	I have written a hi-ku.
1:09.0	And Basha invited him, they sat, and he read the hi-ku.
1:16.0	Take a pair of wings from a dragonfly, you would make a pepper pod.
1:29.0	Five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables, perfect hi-ku.
1:37.0	Basha said, this is not a hi-ku.
1:44.0	You killed the dragonfly.
1:49.0	The hi-ku is add a pair of wings to a pepper pod.
1:59.0	You would make a dragonfly.
2:07.0	Under the end of his life, Basha said, across all these years,
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