Meditation: Beyond the Practice with Susan Piver

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  You don't have to worry about embracing uncertainty because, my friends, I can tell you that it is embracing you constantly.

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  And if you ever become concerned, like, hey, where's my friend?

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  Uncertainty.

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  Well, she's right here.

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  So I'm so excited to share this.

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  Conversation with you today.

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  It's with my dear friend Susan Piber, who is a Shambhala buddhist meditation teacher, New York Times bestselling author of let's see eight books.

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  Her latest, start here now, is a really cool take on meditation, but not just the practice of meditation, but the larger path of meditation, which not a lot of people talk about.

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  Now, there's one really big difference about this conversation, too, and that is it wasn't recorded in our studio in New York.

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  This was recorded live in front of an audience of more than 350 people who gathered from around the world recently for our annual camp GLP celebration.

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  So you will hear a bit of a different audio quality once I pass the torch from this introduction into the conversation, you'll also hear some pretty substantial audience participation because the audience was having fun with us and with the conversation, and we were having a lot of fun, too.

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  One other thing I want to add in here, which is that one of the topics that came up during the conversation is what Buddhism is, what it isn't, why there's such a large resurgence in interest in the practice and the path these days.

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  We also talked a bit about just sort of faith in general and what's happening.

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  There's a phenomenon that's been documented over the last 1020 years, which is tracking people who are leaving some of the more traditional western faiths to become either.

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  What'S known as the nuns, people who.

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  Are spiritual but don't associate with any particular religion or faith.

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  And a lot of those people also have been people who are exploring buddhist practices.

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  I realized I didn't come full circle in that conversation.

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  We moved on from it.

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  But I just want to be clear as you're listening that we're not asking you to pick and choose between, and we're not saying any one faith or tradition or spiritual practice is better than the other.

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