Stephen Batchelor

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Writer of meditation sequence on mortality

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Ezra 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?…
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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?…
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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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