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Pico Iyer — The Urgency of Slowing Down

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Dale Lama and the Dilamo

I find it very interesting that you have really devoted yourself to this subject of the inner world, inner life, spiritual life. But you've repeatedly written that you have never tempted to take up a a spiritual, formal spiritual practices themselves. Have you never met, even wret writing a book about the diilama that you haven't tried meditation? It's embarrassing, but it's trueow, i watch, my wife wakes up every morning at five a m and meditates, and i lie in bed, watch her meditating, and then collapse in a heap to it vicariouslyanBut a, you know, you mentione the dalelamo, and i think that

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