Everyday Buddhism 103 - Purposeless Purpose: Why Nonsense Makes the Most Sense Redux

Everyday Buddhism 103 - Purposeless Purpose: Why Nonsense Makes the Most Sense Redux

Author: Wendy Shinyo Haylett January 26, 2024 Duration: 32:33

As a special bonus episode for the Everyday Buddhism podcast, I am sharing the reading of the essay Purposeless Purpose. It's a wonderful essay to reflect on, as they all are in The Center Within, but I'm releasing it here on the Everyday Buddhism podcast as a companion piece, which you will find in the next episode, 104.

But as a special introduction to the bonus episode, I am adding new content in this re-release of an episode I did in June of 2022, called Why Nonsense Makes the Most Sense, which was built on the essay, Purposeless Purpose.

The new addition is some insight about meditation that is related to the purposeless-purpose message.


 
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