Stephen Batchelor
person
3 mentions
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 2 Jan
↑1 vs the 12 months before
Writer of meditation sequence on mortality
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentEzra KleinThe Ezra Klein Show · This Question Can Change Your Life · 3:04 · 2 Jan
…So from the age of twenty-seven to thirty-one, you say you sat facing a wall for ten to twelve hours a day, asking the question, what is this?…
Ezra KleinThe Ezra Klein Show · This Question Can Change Your Life · 1:59 · 2 Jan
…Stephen Batchelor is the author of many books on Buddhism and meditation, including this book he wrote with his wife Martine Batchelor, called What Is This?…
Ezra KleinThe Ezra Klein Show · Burned Out? Start Here. · 28:20 · Jan 2025
…There's a meditation sequence I love that I learned from the writer Stephen Batchelor, and it's just repeating this phrase, "'I am of the nature to grow old. I am of the nature to get sick.'" I'm of the nature to lose the people I love. I'm of the nature to die. So how then shall I live? And I don't do that meditation that often. It's a lot to hype yourself…
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