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Episode 18: What Pain Makes Possible
Episode 18: What Pain Makes Possible
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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Jul 29, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
Mindfulness practices teaches us to relate to the discomforts of life in a dramatically new way. Conventionally, all we want to do as biological organisms is to get comfortable and stay comfortable. But when we look closely, we realize that pain is not just something we can learn to tolerate, it is a kind of grace, opening us up to a world beyond suffering.
Released:
Jul 29, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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