[Unedited] Stephen Batchelor 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

🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

One of the great challenges of life is to learn to be alone peaceably, at home in oneself. The pandemic forced many of us inside both physically and emotionally, even if we were not home on our own. We’ve been forced to work out the difference between loneliness and solitude. With teachers across the ages, and drawing on his life from monasticism to marriage, Buddhist writer and scholar Stephen Batchelor teaches how to approach solitude as a graceful and life-giving practice.

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0:00.0	Support for on-being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build
0:04.5	the Spiritual Foundation for a loving world.
0:07.7	Fetzer's new study, what does spirituality mean to us?
0:11.4	Reveals how spirituality informs our understanding of ourselves and each other, and inspires us
0:16.5	to take action for the common good.
0:19.0	Explore these findings and more at spiritualitystudy.org.
0:23.2	I'm Christa Tippett.
0:24.7	Up next, my unedited conversation about the difference between loneliness and solitude,
0:31.0	with Buddhist teacher and writer Stephen Bachelor.
0:34.7	And there's a shorter produced version of this, as always, wherever you found this podcast.
0:40.0	Hello.
0:41.0	Hello.
0:42.0	It was actually a beautiful day here.
0:48.1	I've got an echo, by the way, I hear my own voice.
0:51.5	The echo will go away, I assume, right?
0:55.8	Is that better?
0:57.6	That's much better.
0:58.6	Hi, Stephen, it's Christa Tippett.
1:00.6	Oh, hello, Christa.
1:01.6	Hello.
1:02.6	Lovely to speak to you again.
1:03.6	That's right.
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