Melvin McLeod: With a Single Breath (#245)

In this Wisdom Podcast episode, join Melvin McLeod and host Daniel Aitken as they journey the path of mindfulness and celebrate the release of Melvin’s new book, With a Single Breath: The Complete Path of Mindfulness. Listen as Melvin shares his experiences, which challenged his fixed notions of reality and shaped his commitment to mainstream mindfulness as a universal, science-based movement. He recounts his travels to India and meetings with the Karmapa and Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche while searching for a guru, which eventually led to a year-long shamatha-vipashyana retreat. Together, Melvin and Daniel explore mindfulness as a complete path integrating focus, insight, compassion, ethics, and community, and examine the essential elements of happiness.

In this episode, Melvin and Daniel also discuss:

Defining mindfulness practice;

Walter Evans-Wentz’s translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead;

the framework of the universal truths;

what mindfulness is and is not, while questioning “is mindfulness Buddhism?”; and

so much more!

Mentioned in this episode:

The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness by Robert Waldinger, M.D. and Marc Schulz, Ph.D

Learn more about the Harvard study on happiness here

The views and opinions expressed on this program are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of Wisdom Publications or any entities they represent.

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