Episode 50 - Your Heart Was Made For This with Oren Jay Sofer

In this episode of the podcast, I chat with Oren Jay Sofer about his brand new book, Your Heart Was Made For This. Oren is a teacher of buddhist mindfulness and author of the previously featured Say What You Mean, which appeared on the podcast as Episode 23. In this episode, we discuss:

• Oren’s motivation for writing the book
• The external expression of the dharma
• The benefits and skill of renunciation
• How equanimity is not about managing expectations, but instead about being more fully with reality, i.e. enthusiasm is not in conflict with equanimity 
• The merits of marrying equanimity with beginners mind
• How formal practice creates opportunities in the present moment
• The value of ritual according to the buddha 
• Judaism and relationship to the sacred

 

https://www.orenjaysofer.com/

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