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[Unedited] Stephen Batchelor with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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You Are No Longer a Monk?

"I was a monk for ten years, from the age of 20 to 30, basically. And er then i disrobed and i married, but i married a former nun," he says. "We've dedicated our lives to essentially what we learned and what we trained in as monastics." He adds: 'A monastic environment is largely of value because it affords us a kind of training in interiority'

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