In this episode of Cloud 9 Online’s MediMindful Moment Podcast, co-hosts Judith Dreyer, Jeff Nelder, and Henry Edinger interview David Nichtern, a senior Buddhist teacher, meditation guide, musician, four-time Emmy winner, two-time Grammy nominee, and the founder of Dharma Moonand 5 Points Records. David talks about the three dimensions of life being fully integrated, what we can learn from Buddhist practices during this time, and how to utilize mindfulness as a tool in our state of mind.

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Key Quotes:

● “Expressing yourself creatively and relating skillfully to everyday life and livelihood and things like that have equal weight. So, you can see as you travel through different communities that sometimes, one is weighted more than the other significantly.” - David Nichtern

● “Impermanence just simply means that there's a fundamental dimension of reality in which that's just simply true. The condition part of reality it's simply true, you can observe it if it's given as a contemplation to us, everybody should just think about it for five minutes.” - David Nichtern

● “As a meditator, just start where you are, you sat down, you took your seat in the middle of a thunderstorm, in the middle of chaos, in the middle of a prison camp, if that's where you are, just tune in to your body, speech, mind, and work with it from there.” - David Nichtern

● “Everybody in the entertainment industry knows you're only as good as your last movie, and that's true of meditators. There's no accumulation pot for your experience, it's fresh every time, and people who are going to tune their mind to that freshness, then there's a certain kind of sense of creativity and facing adversity.” - David Nichtern

Resources Mentioned:

● Judith Dreyer