Orville Schell is an author, a journalist, a China scholar, and the director of the Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations.

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(00:00) Intro

(01:00) Orville's entering China in the 1970s

(07:10) Was was China like in the 1970s?

(10:09) The palpable fear in China in the 1970s

(14:55) The details of Mao Zedong the Cultural Revolution

(20:40) What preceded Communism in China?

(25:32) Why was Communism appealing to Chinese revolutionaries?

(30:11) China in the 1970s and how it reopened to the world

(37:10) Why did China not become free after the 1980s?

(41:39) 1989 and Tiananmen Square

(45:28) China in the next few years

(52:19) How might China become free?

(55:26) Why China matters

Joseph Goldstein is an author, the co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and is one of the most influential and important figures to bring vipassana meditation practices into the American mainstream.

A rebroadcast from 2022.

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(00:45) How Joseph ended up in Asia a young man

(04:39) Reason for interest in Buddhism and meditation

(08:59) Immersing in the study of the mind

(12:41) The Buddha’s teachings

(18:52) Joseph's psychological state when first exposed to Buddhism and meditation

(21:01) The daily habits, discipline, and rituals to try to achieve Enlightenment

(27:14) Deciding to devote his life to meditation

(30:11) Communicating to his mother his desire to devote his life to Buddhism

(32:59) Metaphysical views pre and post meditation

(37:46) Buddhism is non-theistic

(40:14) What is the Dharma?

(44:48) Integrating Buddhist teachings with practice and The Noble Eightfold Path

(53:37) The first step to use mindfulness to ease psychological suffering

(01:01:24) Awareness versus the weather pattern of one's mind

(01:04:30) Using mindfulness to respond, rather than to react

(01:15:37) Dealing with grief

(01:24:50) How can we improve our lives by being mindful?

James Hollis is a psychoanalyst, one of the world's most prolific Jungian thinkers, and the author of many books, including "Living An Examined Life."

A rebroadcast from 2021.

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(01:02) Jim's transition from academia to psychoanalysis

(06:24) The decision to pursue psychoanalysis as a full-time profession

(10:59) Gathering the courage to pursue psychoanalysis

(18:19) What about Jung’s work resonated with Jim?

(30:16) Jim's process of helping people navigate the transitionary phases of their lives

(41:31) The most pressing issues Jim sees facing Americans

(48:24) The primary blockers to growth and self-healing

(51:54) Discerning the difference fears you should avoid and fears you should face

(57:01) Exhausted relationships vs. relationships that need endurance

(01:09:02) The ratio of men vs. women seeking counsel and therapy and how it’s changed over the years

(01:13:21) Why most men tend to suppress their innermost emotions

(01:19:49) Jim's explanation of Joseph Campbell’s ‘hero’s journey’

(01:25:31) How to live an examined, authentic life