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Stephen Batchelor – Finding Ease in Aloneness

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Are You No Longer a Monk?

i was a monk for ten years, from the age of 20 to 30. And er then i disrobed and i married, but i married a former nun. I found that to be not at all somehow in opposition to my deepest values and practices and so on. So how has that shape reshaped and formed this your solitude project? Well, i think a monastic environment is largely of value because it affords akind of education and training in interiority. For some people, these would be the skills they would wish train. Itad they could then become meditation teachers or ethical invas masters.

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