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Thupten Jinpa - Cultivating Compassion
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Length:
65 minutes
Released:
Apr 29, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In this inaugural episode, Wendy speaks with Buddhist scholar, author, and longtime translator for the Dalai Lama, Thupten Jinpa. Their conversation covers many topics, including:
how he met and started working with the Dalai Lama, and insights from 35 years of translating for him;
the relationship of language and mind;
how to deal with self-consciousness;
the dialogue between Buddhism and science;
first- and third-person ways of investigating the mind that are central to the science of meditation;
sources of valid evidence and knowledge;
the mind as more than the brain;
the relevance of compassion for well-being and a program he developed to cultivate it;
the value of mental training in the time of COVID, and other topics.
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how he met and started working with the Dalai Lama, and insights from 35 years of translating for him;
the relationship of language and mind;
how to deal with self-consciousness;
the dialogue between Buddhism and science;
first- and third-person ways of investigating the mind that are central to the science of meditation;
sources of valid evidence and knowledge;
the mind as more than the brain;
the relevance of compassion for well-being and a program he developed to cultivate it;
the value of mental training in the time of COVID, and other topics.
Full show notes and resources
Released:
Apr 29, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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