Learning From Nature with Buddhist Teacher Mark Coleman | Being Well Podcast

Buddhist teacher Mark Coleman joins me and Dr. ‪@RickHanson‬ to share how we can learn from nature and incorporate it into our practice. Mark shares his insights and experiences from years of leading wilderness retreats, and explains how reconnecting with the natural world can deepen mindfulness and enhance our well-being. You’ll learn specific meditative practices, how to bring the outside inside, the power of our “wild” aspects, and how we can move from being in nature to simply being nature.

About our Guest: Mark Coleman is a senior meditation teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in northern California, and the founder of Awake in the Wild, an organization that runs programs focused on immersing people in the natural world.

Key Topics:
0:00 Introduction
1:30 What drew Mark to practices in nature
5:25 Being drawn outward by meditation
9:40 Access to nature, and “bougie-fication”
15:55 Novelty, acclimation, and quieting the “self”
21:40 The brutal side of nature, and uncertainty
25:35 Reciprocity and relationship
28:50 From appreciating nature to being nature
31:00 Searching for a place vs. searching for a feeling
37:05 What meditating in nature looks like in practice
45:30 Bringing the benefits of practice to the mundane
47:05 “A bunch of tame monkeys”
51:30 Recap


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