All Of Eastern Philosophy Explained Slowly For Sleep

Tonight, let an old man read you the whole of Eastern philosophy, slowly, until the world goes quiet and you drift off. This is a long, calm, hours-long journey through 2,500 years of the East's gentlest wisdom, told the way you would tell a tired friend a story by the fire. We sit with sixteen of the greatest Eastern thinkers and traditions, Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism and its many schools, Vedanta, Yoga, Jainism, Sikhism, Zen, and for each one you get two things at once. The true story of a real human being, a real turning point in a real life, and the actual teaching they left behind. It is a 2,500-year-old medicine for the modern, restless mind, the kind of tired that sleep alone does not quite reach. No hurry. No lecture. Just a slow walk through ideas that have outlived every empire that tried to bury them. 👋 Get ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bonus Grandpa Huxley episodes here⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Tonight's journey. We meet a grieving woman who lost everything in the space of days, a murderer who became a saint, a man frozen on a battlefield, and a frightened boy who lay down to rehearse his own death. Along the way these old minds quietly answer the things that keep us awake now, the loneliness, the burnout, the grasping for the next thing, the grievance we cannot put down, and the fear that wakes us at three in the morning. By different roads, none of them ever comparing notes, they all arrive at the same soft place to land. ⁠ ⁠⁠▶ Follow on Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⭐ Rate on Spotify or Apple, it helps quiet voices reach the people who need them. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠📚 Sources⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 💬 Comment where you're listening from, what time it is there, and anything you enjoyed about one of our recent episodes! ____ #EasternPhilosophy #SleepMeditation #Buddhism #Taoism #Zen #Mindfulness #BhagavadGita #GrandpaHuxley #SleepDocumentary #FallAsleep #historyforsleep