Stephen Batchelor – Finding Ease in Aloneness
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Meditation and Its Importance in the Practice of Solitude
The world inside us is a very lex often troubled place, which is why we are drawn to solitude. Solitude has to do with refining our capacity to see where our impulses are coming from and what extent those impulses are just driven by conditioning and habit and fear. It's the practice of creating an inward autonomy within our es,. An inward freedom from the power of these overwhelming thoughts and emotions. The way he got out of that depression was by carefully analyzing what was actually going on in his thoughts and feelings and emotions.
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