Beauty & Mr. B

This episode explores the meaning of "growth," especially personal growth. In this, Part One, Mr. B outlines the modern idea of growth, and he does his best to recover what "to grow" was originally meant to convey. You might be surprised! In Part Two, next week's episode, Mr. B will consider how someone might begin to move beyond understanding and actively participate more effectively in the process of living growth.

We've been brought up with the idea that each correct answer we accumulate constitutes another bit of knowledge we possess. In this episode, Mr. B openly questions the equation of knowledge with the possession of correct answers. Instead of a paradigm that bases knowledge upon the answer, Mr. B proposes that a more complete paradigm of knowledge must be centered on the asking of questions. It is only when we move beyond the one correct answer, to embrace all the questions which follow, that we will recover the beautiful natures of our own curiosity and our inherent desire for endless learning...

In this episode, Mr. B examines how the ways that we understand words, our language, influences what we see as real and true. By taking a close look at three words, Mr. B hopes that, like him, listeners will come to appreciate more of the beauty that exists in the world and within ourselves.

This episode examines the relationship between beauty and sadness. Here, Mr. B explores the nature of sadness itself, a few realities of sadness in modern society, and, moving past this narrow conception of reality, Mr. B seeks to accept and embrace the compassion and communion that can be found within the beautiful depths of sadness. 

This episode examines how narrowly society has trained us to view reality, provides an example of what it means to view reality from a much wider angle, and outlines some reasons why it might be worthwhile to begin cultivating the discipline of viewing reality through the widest possible perspective.

In this first episode, Mr. B introduces his podcast. He starts off  by breaking down the podcast title, "Beauty & Mr. B," asking two questions: Who is Mr. B, and what does Mr. B mean when he refers to "beauty"? Before this episode concludes, Mr. B outlines how he views the audience for this podcast. Hopefully, after listening to this introduction, you will want to become part of this audience, accompanying Mr. B on this journey...

This is a short introduction to what "Beauty and Mr. B" will be about. It begins to ask some of the big questions that Mr. B will consider, and it provides a glimpse into the nature and scope of the discussions that will hopefully follow... starting with Mr. B's first full episode, which describes the story of how this podcast came into being. Please stay tuned!!