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Contemplative Practice and Political Struggle
🕑 Added 2021-11-20 00:04:06 +0000 UTCJay Michaelson is a journalist, meditation teacher, author of many books, and worked as an LGBTQ activist for ten years.
Jay holds a Ph.D. in religion from Hebrew University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, a nondenominational rabbinic ordination, and is authorized to teach in the Theravadan Buddhist lineage.
Jay joins Breht to discuss spirituality, grief and suffering, Judaism and Buddhism, the importance of collective political struggle, what meditation can offer organizers/activists, and much more!
Find out more about Jay here: https://www.jaymichaelson.net/
Outro Music: "Lost in the Country" by Trace Mountains
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Brennan Aitken-Gantz
I really appreciate you adding that context.
Revolutionary Left Radio
I was going to dive deeper into those disagreements, but he made it clear beforehand that he'd rather not spend a lot of time on that, and that he didnt want to focus on political disagreements - so I honored that and just touched on the disagreements instead of drilling down on them. BUT I have done an episode like that, check it out here: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/liberal-debate
Brennan Aitken-Gantz
I was so disappointed in the lack of exploring the differences between the liberal perspective of the guest and a leftist perspective. What a dropped ball.
