Ep. 503 – A Future We Can Love w/ Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, RN

Raghu shares a conversation with Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, RN about climate crisis and our interconnection with all things.

In this episode of the Mindrolling Podcast, Susan Bauer-Wu talks about her work as a teacher, clinician, and academic researcher and discusses the public meeting between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg that inspired her new book – A Future We Can Love.

In this episode, Susan Bauer-Wu and Raghu speak about:

• Our interconnection with the natural world and all things
• The need for humanity to move into better balance with our environment
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s public chat about climate crisis with Greta Thunberg – an inspiration for Susan’s new book, A Future We Can Love
• Raising awareness about climate change within spiritual and faith-based communities

Links & Recommendations From this Episode:

• His Holiness the Dalai Lama In Conversation with Greta Thunberg and Leading Scientists
• Mind & Life Institute
• The Loka Initiative | Center for Healthy Minds
• It Can’t Happen Here by Frank Zappa

“Just imagine that we are these, these gems, these jewels, and in it, we are reflecting all the other gems that we’re connected to that in the universe that every single one of us is part of this. I just imagine these beautiful, you know, sparkling web of all of us that we’re not we are all we are who we are because of each other and we can’t, we don’t, exist in isolation.” – Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, RN

About Susan Bauer-Wu:

Susan Bauer-Wu is a warm and gifted teacher with a distinctive background as a meditation practitioner and teacher, clinician, and academic researcher, is the president of the Mind & Life Institute. Prior to her recent appointment at Mind and Life, she was the Kluge Professor of Contemplative End-of-Life Care and director of the Compassionate Care Initiative at the University of Virginia (UVa) School of Nursing and associate faculty in the UVa Department of Religious Studies and member of the UVa Contemplative Sciences Center. Besides many academic publications, Susan is the author of the book for the lay public, Leaves Falling Gently: Living Fully with Serious and Life-Limiting Illness through Mindfulness, Compassion, & Connectedness.

For Susan Bauer Wu’s dharma talks, click here.

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