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On Being with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Joanna Macy 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

4.710.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2019

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

A Buddhist philosopher of ecology, Joanna Macy says we are at a pivotal moment in history with the possibility to unravel or create a life-sustaining human society. Now entering her 90s, Macy has lived adventurously by any definition. She worked with the CIA in Cold War Europe and the Peace Corps in post-colonial India and was an early environmental activist. She brings a poetic and spiritual sensibility to her work that’s reflected in her translations of the early-20th-century poet Rainer Maria Rilke. We take that poetry as a lens on her wisdom on the great dramas of our time: ecological, political, personal. Joanna Macy is an activist, author, and a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking, and deep ecology. Her 13 books include translations of Rilke’s “Book of Hours: Love Poems to God,” “A Year with Rilke,” and “In Praise of Mortality.” She is the root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, a framework and workshop for personal and social change. Her new translation of Rilke’s “Letters to a Young Poet,” together with Anita Barrows, is upcoming in 2020. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Joanna Macy — A Wild Love for the World.” Find more at onbeing.org.

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0:00.0

I've had hundreds of big conversations, and my conversation partners share wisdom,

0:04.8

I carry with me wherever I go.

0:07.4

Across the years, people have asked for shorter-formed distillations of some of my favorite moments,

0:12.8

something you could listen to in the time it takes to make a cup of coffee or tea, and

0:17.2

something shareable.

0:18.8

The Becoming Wise Podcast is that offering, and we've just launched its second season.

0:24.4

Take ten minutes to reset your day and replenish your sense of yourself in the world.

0:29.9

Have a nice and episode.

0:30.9

Subscribe to Becoming Wise wherever podcasts are found.

0:59.9

And Chris says somewhere.

1:18.3

Can you hear me?

1:20.0

Hello.

1:21.0

Hi, Joanna.

1:22.0

Hi, it's Chris DeTipett.

1:24.0

Hi, I can't hear you very well.

1:27.4

I'm a little late, maybe a minute or two because of the parking confusion.

1:35.7

No problem.

1:36.7

Don't worry.

1:37.8

Take your time, catch your breath.

1:39.4

Yeah, that'll be good.

1:41.2

That good?

1:42.2

It'll catch my breath.

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