Critical Mind, Embodied Spirit
Critical and compassionate enquiries into systems of mind, body, and spirit from the scientific and esoteric to the everyday. Barnaby Kent dives deep into subjects – from meditation to medicine, Yoga to Brazilian Jiu-jitsu – with accomplished practitioners who have already cut through the conceptual jungle so that you, the listener, can get straight to the practical essence of what actually works to transform yourself into a healthier, happier, more powerful person. Ancient traditions or modern methods are often inaccessible or clothed in cultural assumptions from another time and place. Critical Mind, Embodied Spirit is a mix of solo shows and interviews with the world’s leading experts that will hold your hand down the rabbit hole so that you – the 21st century seeker of health, power, and reality – can unpick the conceptual confusion to personally embody universal truths. Hit the subscribe button and get ready to enrich your life.
Critical Mind, Embodied Spirit
Happiness, Emptiness, Meditation - with Phillip, the Tibetan Buddhist Monk
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Barnaby Kent, Phillip Gallenberger
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Season 1
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Episode 3
#003 - What is it really like for a ‘westerner’ to live as a Buddhist monk? Phillip Gallenberger has been living as a monk in one of the largest monasteries in the world, the Tibetan Buddhist monastic university Sera Jey in Southern India, for well over a decade. In this episode he talks about his daily life in the monastery full of debate as an analytical approach to internalizing what the Buddha taught. Phillip also goes deep on the secret of happiness, the real meaning of emptiness, attainments in meditation (and why people don’t discuss them) as well the role of the body in Buddhist training and a lot more.