Knowing The Mind

About this episode

Lezlie Laws discusses the Third Foundation of Mindfulness, focusing on how the mind creates a self through the Zen question 'What Is This?'.

This talk, provided by Lezlie Laws, continues reviewing elements of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness Discourse, focusing in the Third Foundation, Mindfulness of the Mind. Lezlie uses a Zen question to foster internal understanding of how the mind creates a self: “What Is This?” The question is not intended to be abstract and intellectual, but rather to invite direct subjective knowledge of how the mind is created in and ongoing way. During the talk, Lezlie refers to a YouTube interview involving Ezra Klein and Stephen Batchelor, a well-respected Buddhist teacher and author who suggests the value of this question. Here is a URL recording that conversation: https://secularbuddhistnetwork.org/ezra-klein-interviews-stephen-batchelor-on-what-is-this/  

People in this episode

Host: Peter Carlson

Guest: Lezlie Laws

Topics covered

• mindfulness
• self-awareness
• Buddhism
• Zen
• Four Foundations of Mindfulness

Keywords

• mindfulness
• self
• Zen
• Buddhism
• Four Foundations of Mindfulness
• Lezlie Laws
• Ezra Klein
• Stephen Batchelor

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Secular Buddhist Network

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