Stephen Batchelor – Finding Ease in Aloneness

One of the great challenges of life is to learn to be alone peaceably, at home in oneself. The pandemic forced many of us inside both physically and emotionally, even if we were not home on our own. We’ve been forced to work out the difference between loneliness and solitude. With teachers across the ages, and drawing on his life from monasticism to marriage, Buddhist writer and scholar Stephen Batchelor teaches how to approach solitude as a graceful and life-giving practice.

Episode 992 of the On Being with Krista Tippett podcast, hosted by On Being Studios, titled "Stephen Batchelor – Finding Ease in Aloneness" was published on September 23, 2021 and runs 50 minutes.

September 23, 2021 ·50m · On Being with Krista Tippett

Summary

One of the great challenges of life is to learn to be alone peaceably, at home in oneself. The pandemic forced many of us inside both physically and emotionally, even if we were not home on our own. We’ve been forced to work out the difference between loneliness and solitude. With teachers across the ages, and drawing on his life from monasticism to marriage, Buddhist writer and scholar Stephen Batchelor teaches how to approach solitude as a graceful and life-giving practice.

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