If I had to say, why meditate?
I'd say meditation, in my experience, is the best way to train in uncertainty.
And the other flip side of that is, it's the best training in how to love.
As some of you guys may have picked up for a period of months or years hanging out together, I'm a little bit interested.
Okay.
Actually, strike that.
Maybe even a little bit fascinated with Buddhism.
So anytime I get the opportunity to sit down with somebody who really lives that path and has lived it in the real world, I take that opportunity.
This week's guest, my friend Lojo Rinzler, is somebody who actually really came up in the practice, and instead of taking a monastic path, has returned to the world and really explored how does the idea of Buddhism, the philosophy, the teachings, how does that intersect with our ability to actually live a really powerful, really engaged, compassionate, alive life in the real world on a day to day basis?
And how does it affect our relationships, both with ourselves and with other people?
That's part of the conversation in today's episode.
I'm Jonathan Fields.
This is good life project.
There is really only one logical jumping off point for this conversation, and that is you are a long time devout Buddhist who at one point, I believe, even did the whole monastic, vow shaved head thing.
Yet you have a cat named Justin Bieber.
That is the only jumping off.
There's really no other jumping off.
Yes.
Yeah, I actually.
This is the sort of things that keep me up at night.