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[Unedited] Stephen Batchelor with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Tools of Buddhism, the Tools of a Buddhist Psychology, as an Analysis of Loneliness

The world inside us is a very complex, often troubled place. Solitude is something you refine and develop and create. It has to do with refining our capacity to see what impulses are just driven by habit and fear. We can somehow open up a non- reactive space within us that we can respond to from which we can understand nirvana. Frank Sinatra: 'I'm not afraid of being alone'

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