The Meditating Philosopher | Or How We Learned to Love the Om | Cheryl Hsu & Nathan Vanderpool @TheMeditatingPhilosopher | Uploaded January 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Why learn anything is a philosophical question worth asking!

We explore it by talking about various aspects of practice, sharing a lot of joy along the way.

Nathan and Cheryl are quickly becoming two of my favorite people and their deeply creative, dedicated, and interesting thoughts and feelings about practices are always helping me discover ways to live well in the world.

00:00 Start
00:14 Checking In
5:50 View, Care, & Action
14:45 Demystifying Emptiness Meditation (maybe)
22:56 DIME - Dialogue, Imaginal, Mindfulness, Embodiment as aspects of practices
45:10 Jean Gebser
52:31 Aikido
1:03:16 Japanese Yoga
1:06:32 Tom Cheetham & Imaginal
1:09:55 Henry Corbin
1:12:28 Simone Weil
1:22:40 Masanobu Fokuoka | Living with nature vs Nature as a resource
1:32:30 Forest Bathing

A couple of months ago before a meeting we were all joyfully and soulfully sharing our thoughts on these things, so I thought it would make an interesting conversation to share.

I hope you enjoy it and if you have questions or comments, leave them below!

And of course, keep practicing! :)