Solo Episode: You’re Waiting for Your Life to Begin
Ep.15 Lionel Snell - The Bardo Podcast
Why Chasing Happiness Can Make Us Miserable
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In this solo episode I explore why so many of us postpone happiness until some future version of ourselves finally arrives.
Inspired by the surreal Japanese film Mind Game, I reflect on ambition, creativity, Buddhism, meditation, comedy and clowning.
Along the way I explore the friction between desire and burnout, the weight of social comparison, and what it actually means to just stop trying so hard to become 'somebody.'
I'll be taking a short summer break while I'm performing at the Edinburgh Fringe, but I'll be back later this year with more conversations and solo episodes.
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Topics include:
Happiness
Desire
Ambition
Identity
Meditation
Buddhism
Creativity
Success
Karma
Self-improvement
Mentioned in this episode:
Films
Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa)
Good Fortune
Books
Promethea - Alan Moore
The New Saints - Lama Rod Owens
The Bhagavad Gita
Thinkers
Jacques Lacan
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
David Loy
Mingyur Rinpoche
John Higgs
Tsering Paldron
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Music by Marc Salmon and Robert Fuller
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