Anxiety Book Club

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

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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

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