This is a Pariyatti Presents... event recorded Nov. 16th, 2025 with Paul R. Fleischman, interviewed by Kory Goldberg, titled 'Safety of Meditation, pt. 2 of 2'. This is video six of 'The Power of Small Changes' interview series.

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This is a Pariyatti Presents... event recorded Nov. 9th, 2025 with Paul R. Fleischman, interviewed by Kory Goldberg, titled 'Safety of Meditation, pt. 1 of 2'. This is video five of 'The Power of Small Changes' interview series.

Paul R. Fleischman

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This is a Pariyatti Presents... event recorded Oct. 19th, 2025 with Paul R. Fleischman, interviewed by Kory Goldberg, titled 'Living as a Meditator in the Confusing, Pressured, and Tumultuous World'. This is part four of 'The Power of Small Changes' interview series.

Paul R. Fleischman

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This is a Pariyatti Presents... event recorded Oct. 5th, 2025 with Paul R. Fleischman, interviewed by Kory Goldberg, titled 'Building a Sustainable Practice'. This is part three of 'The Power of Small Changes' interview series.

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This is a Pariyatti Presents... event recorded May 25th, 2025 with Paul R. Fleischman, interviewed by Kory Goldberg, titled 'How the Brain and the Body Make Vipassana Possible'. This is part two of 'The Power of Small Changes' interview series.

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This is a Pariyatti Presents... event recorded May 4th, 2025 with Paul R. Fleischman, interviewed by Kory Goldberg, titled 'The Psychological and Social Wellsprings of Vipassana'. This is part one of 'The Power of Small Changes' interview series.

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Epilogue: Manjushri’s Burden from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner

I SET THE CHAIN SAW down on the stump of the tree which I had just felled and sat down on the log to drink from my canteen. It was the very same orange water bag I had purchased to take with me to India two years ago. I looked up through the bare November trees at the sun edging toward the apex of its low autumn arc. Then I looked at the piles of cordwood I’d accumulated along the road during the past months. There would certainly be enough for the stoves before the first snowfall. Satisfied, I picked up my saw and headed back to the house. ...

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Ch. 14 - Time Past and Time Present from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner

DELHI HOT LIKE A KILN. I wandered through empty streets at midday making final connections. London like a plunge into ice water, only hours later. I stood shivering in the transit lounge, my thin wool shawl wrapped tight around my shoulders, my socks incongruous in Indian sandals, even more incongruous in white pajama clothes, amidst fur and leather coats, heavy sweaters and fat, flushed, liquor-stained faces. I was emaciated by comparison. Crash landing in Boston, hours late. Time sense destroyed. I slept last in Calcutta. A strange wakefulness haunted my body. Alert to ponderous events all around me, I followed my breath as a customs official began pawing through my bag. Suddenly he stopped and handed it back to me with an apologetic smile. I felt a rising thickness in my throat to get beyond that door. She would be waiting. At first she wasn’t sure she could, but after letters back and forth, she’d finally agreed. ...

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Ch. 13 - The Essence is Anicca from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner

THE TWO-BLADED FAN above my head cut ponderously through the thick, hot air. It was late April and the annual three-month heat wave was in full bloom in Madras. My own body temperature had gone amok with some indeterminate fever, and I’d spent the past three days in this hotel room waiting quietly for my illness to pass. It was a comfortable enough place to be sick, with its clean, white walls and stone floors, and outside, a balcony that overlooked gardened courtyards where huge trees reached up to the third tier of rooms. The dark and faintly musky atmosphere was almost Mediterranean. ...

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Ch. 12 - The Great Blind Sea Turtle from Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner

ON MY RETURN TO the monastery from my brief journey out into the world, I had been warmly greeted by the head monk, Nyayaka Maha Thera, and by my two friends Bhikkhus Sunno and Ratanapala, who were convinced that I had returned for good. It was quite a homecoming. I asked Sunno if he might like to take a walk out to my hut one afternoon and have some tea so we could talk. He was quite pleased by the invitation and promised to visit me soon. The days went by, though, and he didn’t come. One day after lunch, I sent the young boy who served me food back into the meditation quarters to fetch Sunno. I didn’t think it proper for me simply to wander in there unexpectedly. Sunno appeared with a big smile, and after apologizing for not being able to make it to my kuti, invited me to his quarters. ...

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