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Why I Started Sitting
by James Deeney
Why I Started Sitting is a story-first meditation podcast. Less dharma talk, more the stories behind the stillness. Each week, host and ten-year meditator James Deeney sits down with serious practitioners - Buddhist teachers, long-term meditators and leading voices in mindfulness - to trace the real human story behind the practice. What made them sit in the first place? Why did they keep going when it got hard? And what started to change in their lives over the years?Here, we explore the stories behind the stillness.
Episodes
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From Despair to Zen Master | Henry Shukman
Try Henry’s meditation app, The Way, free for 30 days: https://www.thewayapp.com/whyistarted... In this episode of Why I Started Sitting, Henry Shukman traces the long road from that experience to becoming a Zen teacher: a childhood in Oxford with parents who turned out to be spies, the misery…
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Henry Shukman on his first Zen retreat | Episode 1 Preview
Watch the full episode with Henry Shukman on Wednesday 21st October.Henry Shukman had been meditating for six or seven years when he went on his first week-long Zen retreat, and he thought he was "pretty good at this thing". Nine hours a day of sitting, way up a dirt track in New Mexico, soon...
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Introducing Why I Started Sitting | Official Trailer
Why I Started Sitting is a story-first meditation podcast about the people who take the path of practice seriously. And the lives that led them there. Most of us can sit still for ten minutes. But some people go far beyond that. Weeks on silent retreat, months alone, a lifetime on the cushion.…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Why I Started Sitting is a story-first meditation podcast. Less dharma talk, more the stories behind the stillness. Each week, host and ten-year meditator James Deeney sits down with serious practitioners - Buddhist teachers, long-term meditators and leading voices in mindfulness - to trace the real human story behind the practice. What made them sit in the first place? Why did they keep going when it got hard? And what started to change in their lives over the years?Here, we explore the stories behind the stillness.
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Why I Started Sitting is a story-first meditation podcast. Less dharma talk, more the stories behind the stillness. Each week, host and ten-year meditator James Deeney sits down with serious practitioners - Buddhist teachers, long-term meditators and leading voices in mindfulness - to trace the...
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Why I Started Sitting is created and hosted by James Deeney.
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