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What Is This?

Stephen Batchelor, Martine Batchelor
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What Is This? by Stephen Batchelor, Martine Batchelor comes up on The Ezra Klein Show, with transcript quotes, timestamps, and episode context.

What Is This? by Stephen Batchelor, Martine Batchelor appears 1 time across 1 podcast episode on 1 show, with transcript quotes and timestamps.

San meditation works around the question of what is this? Just asking it again and again and allowing it to arise in you.

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This Question Can Change Your Life on The Ezra Klein Show
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The host mentions 'What Is This?' to highlight the importance of exploring doubt and uncertainty as a spiritual practice. This book, co-authored by Stephen and Martine Batchelor, stems from a meditation retreat focused on the fundamental question of existence.

What Is This? by Stephen Batchelor, Martine Batchelor most often appears in conversations about sitting with doubt.

Recent linked podcasts include The Ezra Klein Show, giving you a quick path from the book back to the shows where it actually came up.

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The host mentions 'What Is This?' to highlight the importance of exploring doubt and uncertainty as a spiritual practice. This book, co-authored by Stephen and Martine Batchelor, stems from a meditation retreat focused on the fundamental question of existence.

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Individuals interested in Buddhism and personal growth
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Recent show rotation: The Ezra Klein Show.

Fastest path back to the source: the strongest indexed mention lands at 2:02 in the episode where we captured it.

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Which episode mentioned What Is This??

This Question Can Change Your Life on The Ezra Klein Show is one of the clearest indexed episodes that mentioned What Is This? by Stephen Batchelor, Martine Batchelor. The first indexed transcript timestamp lands at 2:02.

Which podcast mentioned What Is This??

The Ezra Klein Show is the main indexed podcast currently tied to What Is This? by Stephen Batchelor, Martine Batchelor.

Who mentioned What Is This? on podcasts?

PodcastMentions ties What Is This? by Stephen Batchelor, Martine Batchelor to The Ezra Klein Show, but the underlying mentions do not yet expose stable guest names for every episode.

Why do podcast guests bring up What Is This??

The host mentions 'What Is This?' to highlight the importance of exploring doubt and uncertainty as a spiritual practice. This book, co-authored by Stephen and Martine Batchelor, stems from a meditation retreat focused on the fundamental question of existence. It most often appears in conversations about sitting with doubt.

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This book is from a meditation retreat that Stephen Batchelor and his wife Martine Batchelor held, focusing on the question of what is this?

Sentiment: Deep Dive
For: Individuals interested in Buddhism and personal growth
Key quote: San meditation works around the question of what is this? Just asking it again and again and allowing it to arise in you.
The host mentions 'What Is This?' to highlight the importance of exploring doubt and uncertainty as a spiritual practice. This book, co-authored by Stephen and Martine Batchelor, stems from a meditation retreat focused on the fundamental question of existence.