Episode 8: Mindfulness + Life's Mystery with Bob Stahl

 
 
 
 
 
 

EPISODE OVERVIEW

Bob Stahl has founded 8 Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programs in medical centers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a long time practitioner of mindfulness meditation, having lived and practiced for over eight years in a Buddhist monastery, and is the guiding teacher at Insight Santa Cruz and a visiting teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Bob is moved by the Buddha's teachings about impermanence and the body. At one point, he needed to re-learn how to walk due to a dangerous bacterial infection in his foot. To Bob, a fulfilling life is loving and being loved, as well as freeing himself from resentment and grudges.

Highlights

  • Bob's multiple journeys learning how to walk, both as a child and as an adult.
     
  • The story of Buddha and how it ties into an understanding and acceptance of aging and illness.
     
  • His story of a friend's awe-inducing mindfulness on a nature walk.
     
  • Why death is important and even necessary to the human experience.
     
  • Finding the balance of interconnectedness and separation in life and reconciling the two.
     
  • The difference between "reacting" and "responding" in mindfulness.
     
  • Altering our relationship to pain if we can't be rid of it.
     
  • Finding the space between stimulus and response and using awareness to take advantage of it.
     
  • Bob guiding the you through a basic mindfulness exercise. 

Links

BOB'S AWARENESS AND RELAXATION TRAINING (ART) MINDFULNESS PROGRAMS

 

"IT IS ENOUGH" poem by Anne Alexander Binghamton

 

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