Have you ever heard this? "Mindfulness conflicts with my religious beliefs" or "Meditation is Buddhist" or "Christians don't meditate." Well, Will and I are interviewing Dr. Clark Chilson, from the University of Pittsburgh about this. Listen to learn more!
Who is Dr. Chilson, well... Before joining the faculty at Pitt in 2006, Clark Chilson lived in England for three years and in Japan for over thirteen years. In Japan he studied cultural anthropology, did fieldwork at a Zen temple and among secretive Buddhists, and for five years was the associate editor of Asian Folklore Studies and the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. He also supplemented his income in Japan by doing jobs as diverse as interpreting for an F1 racecar driver, working on a documentary for the Japanese Broadcasting Company (NHK), and translating medical texts.
Let's do this!
01:00 Mindfulness and Religion with Dr. Clark Chilson
04:00 Introducing Dr. Clark Chilson
06:00 Jon leads Opening Grounding Practice (~3.5 min)
10:00 Mindfulness Moments now available on the Podcast!
10:30 How Will and Clark met
13:00 Clark did not like Will
16:30 How Dr. Chilson got his start
19:30 Is meditation religious?
21:30 Defining religion and meditation
27:30 Context and purpose is everything
30:00 Buddhism is a religion?
37:30 Spiritual but not religious? Religious but not spiritual?
40:00 Can a person partake in a spiritual experience outside their religion?
43:00 The history of meditation and the potential dangers of modern practice
47:30 Community is hard, but necessary and ultimately beneficial
54:00 Micro-dose your Meditation
55:00 Company-endorsed Mindfulness
1:03:30 Will leads Closing Grounding Practice (~3.5 min)
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